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Thomas Sowell: Will Obama turn the United States into the world's largest banana republic?
"[T]he first response to budget cuts is often to cut the police department and the fire department. There may be all sorts of wasteful boondoggles that could have been cut instead, but that would not produce the public alarm that reducing police protection and fire protection can produce. And public alarm is what can get budget cuts restored." [rdbrewer]