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Government's New Day

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: March 27, 2009

Your editorial pages and the accompanying letters to the editor are starting to resemble cable TV, with its opinionated talking heads and manufactured outrage. It is as if half the people expect President Obama to be a miracle worker, and the other half-think he's no better than the last group.

In 1982, America decided that government was the problem, and all we needed to do was borrow, spend and consume, and the big corporations would look after us. This is what was sold to us as "freedom."

Now many have come to realize that government cannot abandon its responsibilities, nor can we just stick our hands in each other's pockets anymore and pretend we have money. The huge financial industry is not an industry at all - it produces nothing.

We need to have an economy based on production and manufacturing and the decent paying jobs that come with it. And yes, that means technology, education and probably more unionized workers. And if that seems expensive, remember we just tried it the other way.

SCOTT COCHRAN

Tampa

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