The article "Government has to make choices families, businesses don't" was written by Cindi Scoppe, she is one of the Associate Editor's of The State newspaper in South Carolina. Her article can be found in the politics section of The State's website. The reason why this article was written because a concerned citizen like Mrs. Scoppe, wanted to give her opinions and answers to questions that some people will ask.
The audience for this article can be people who are concerned about what our government is doing and they might want to her what another person's opinion is on the matter. Scoppe's argument is a list of some possible things that the government can do to help people from continuing to get laid off and children getting into school then college when they are ready. In the end she mention's that her solution should be that "we ought to cut out pay raises in order to reduce layoffs".
I'm not entirely sure of what we really should do to help reduce layoffs or help people get into college, but I do know we need a lot of smart people to work together to figure out the best solution. There is definitely going to be consequences to whatever the government decides to do to help everyone out.
