There's been a lot of talk from all corners for a while about whether the people on each side of the red vs. blue divide can ever be reconciled. Reading about events such as this makes me think, "Negative, Ghostrider..."...
A massive budget backlash came to lower Manhattan on Thursday. Tens of thousands of New Yorkers marched on City Hall, rallying to stop proposed funding cuts.
The rally cries of labor unions, community groups and families outside City Hall could be heard throughout lower Manhattan. Desperation for an economic lifeline brought out more than 50,000 people along several blocks of Broadway in a self-described "Rally For New York."
So in effect, one could say it was the march of the grass-eaters. Seems like everywhere else government actions are being protested, they're protesting that the government's taking too much from them, but there in good old New York City they're protesting because they think government's not giving them enough. How many of those folks would you bet voted for Obama because of his promises of bigger government? You take this, and the tea parties, and the legislation in which the various states are asserting their Tenth Amendment rights, and it's enough to make you wonder what it's all going to come to...
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