This article is titled Government has to make choices families, businesses don't. It was posted in "The State" on January 22, 2009 but the Associate Editor, Cindi Scoppe. This particular article is directed to everyone overall, but mainly South Carolinians, businesses, families, business owners and consumers. This article was written to focus on the economic problem and the negative effects it is having on our society. It also point out a valid point "Government does not have the right to ignore the consequences its actions have on the economy". I agree with this and I believe that the American people agree with this as well considering the consequences that there actions have had on us.
The basic argument the author overall is that this needs to be fixed. Sacrifices need to be made to help our economy and it needs to be made in the governments lives not the people. The people already pay taxes, not that the government doesn't but the people could use their money more than anything at a time like this, so raising taxes are out of the question. The author throws out some ideas concerning how to handle this problem such as cutting pay raises to reduce layoffs.
