Is this about the problems our government has with never ending budget balancing or is it about the government of the people, by the people and for the people having issues with those same people?
How difficult can it be to balance one's budget? We all do it. Everyday. All of us, individually. Regardless of our individual level of education and sophistication we all know that you can't spend more than you make, and that takes care of it. Our government, apparently is not capable of doing the job we gave them our confidence to do. They simply blame their predecessors and then, they just pass the ever growing imbalance onto their successors. And that's how we got here. And that's been going on for a long time now and nobody is willing to go back and find that "first guy" who started it all. And, honestly, it wouldn't matter one bit, at this point.
Or is it maybe that for political reasons, they saw it more profitable not to balance the budget? It is whole lot easier to just blame their constituents for it instead? Yes, constituents. Us. In a progressively speeding vicious tricycle of "of, by and for the people" we the people vote for our political representatives who are only on our side during the process of being elected. And as soon as they do (get elected), the tune gets changed and we the people become the most expendable part of the whole process. Now they want Wisconsin taxpayers to pay for their (politicians') mistakes. And it's not that they will have to pay financially, by increased taxes and their standard of living being lowered. They will pay for it by giving up (or loosing) some of their democratic rights: right to get and stay organized and keep the democracy alive.
Democracy is the rule of the people through it's representatives. Once those representatives turn against those they represent, democracy becomes dictatorship.
And that's not what America is all about.
