What will Whitewater do, in the face of grim economic and fiscal forecasts from Washington?
Set aside the temptation – so very strong in Whitewater, Wisconsin – to say that all our hard decisions were the fault of some federal politician.
They’re not – we’ve made poor choices long before the current Congress.
There’s a way out, though, if we’d abandon the idea of a municipal government that’s too big for our city, to stifling in its regulations, and too intrusive and presumptuous in its desire to shape life here.
A much smaller municipal government will lift a significant burden from this struggling town. We can have a much brighter future privately than the politicians of the city can offer publicly.
This can be our opportunity for a city made better not under a bureaucrat’s pedantic guidance, but through free exchanges between residents without a master plan, yet producing a result better than any plan.