Someone’s making the “tough choices” Obama always talks about, but never makes:
Rhode Island will shut down its state government for 12 days and hopes to trim millions of dollars in funding for local governments under a plan Gov. Don Carcieri outlined Monday to balance a budget hammered by surging unemployment and plummeting tax revenue. The shutdown will force 81 percent of the roughly 13,550-member state work force, excluding its college system, to stay home a dozen days without pay before the start of the new fiscal year in July.
There will be “inconveniences for the public, and there are going to be sacrifices,” said Gov. don Carcieri, but you ever notice how most government shut-downs aren’t nearly as apocalyptic as big-government advocates claim they’ll be. Here’s a telling sentence in the tale of a government shut-down:
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