Assignment #2 -D.HESS

The article, "Government has to make choices families, businesses don’t", was written by Cindi Ross Scoppe for "The State" newspaper, in South Carolina. In her article, Ms. Scoppe explains to everyone that there are no easy answers to all of the questions about what to do to save our state's economy. Our State's Government has to make decisions on what to do, to keep us from going into a "death spiral." The answers, and decisions made are not cut and dry. They have to have deep thought and research behind them, so as we try and save our states econmy now, we, in turn, dont make it harder for us in the long run. WE have to look at both sides of the road here. She states that we have several goals to look at here, that arent necessarily compatible. In some instances, we cant have our cake, and eat it too. But that is what we are trying to do, Have our cake(save our economy in the present), and eat it too(keep our econmy string for the future). We as individuals are suffering from this economic meltdown, just like the government, but we have it a little easier, on making the decisions to keep oour money straight and where it needs to be. We cannot just cut out some of the most successful programs we have in this state, to come up with new ones that can save us from Hell, we hope. So we should not compare our individual struggles and actions with that of the Government, because there is a lot more on the line when it comes to the Government shuffling money around.