In the article entitled Government has to make choices families, businesses don’t written by Cindi Ross Scoppe wants to make a point about the government spending is to compare to families or businesses. On January 22nd 2009 Scoppe wrote that the government has obigations that businesses and individuals do not have. My question would be what are they? There is one thing that I do not understand. There have been millions and millions of people that have lost their jobs all over America and all the government wants to do is worry about their own salaries. If their pay drops we are forced to cut back on budjets and employees so their paycheck is not touched. I do not understand how a group of people can be so self-centered and only care about themselves! Does that make any since at all?
Businesses and retail places are suffering because of the lack of spending and becauses of the shape of the economy. There are many people that do not eat out and buy clothes as much as they used to. Due to all of the changes the economy, they are hurting even more. I think a simple solution could be for the government to take a look and cut back on some of their spending. That would help out greatly. For example, there is a place in rock hill where they are building theses big, beautiful walls that are going to say "Rock Hill," and yet we have people on our streets starving, and students that want to go to college but the scholarships have been or are in the process of being reduced and they want to spend our tax money on a wall of rocks. This makes me mad and is really confusing. A good idea would be to stop the crazy spending and give a 4 year old a chance to go to kindergarden. All teachers are not paid enough, what about an extra few hundred dollars on their paychecks instead of a beautiful wall that says, "Rock Hill." I'm sure that would be a blessing and a great help to them because they are already underpaid. This is a problem that i do not think is going to be fixed easly. The government is so used to being so "finically comfortable" that it would take some major adjusting for them to get off of themselves. The present issue is going to take a while to be resoloved. In my personal opinion, God is our only hope.