To Spend or Not to Spend, that is the Question

By Rick Manning
The great dichotomy in American politics is playing out in Wisconsin and elsewhere with the future of our nation at stake
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Public employees, whose paychecks are at the heart of the battle over the size and scope of government, are taking to the streets at the direction of their union masters, in support of Democratic politicians who have refused to show up to work.

The American public, which inherently just wants us all to get along, rocks back and forth between a certain knowledge that government spends too much, and a general feeling that they don’t want the government services they benefit from cut, catching them between the classic needs versus wants question.

While we watch Wisconsin with almost morbid fascination, the reality is that this public employee union contagion is likely to spread across the nation as states grapple with real budget problems in contrast to the kabuki theatre played in our nation’s capital.
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