 someone has to make the tough decisions  it seems that there is a protest every day at the state capitol from some special interest group that feels they are getting their ldquo ox gored rdquo this week the unions were out en masse to protest the new ldquo emergency financial manager rdquo law the governor signed the sad truth is that this is something that needs to be done to hold school districts and cities accountable for their own financial demise the time has come when we can no longer kick the can down the road like the democrats have done for the last eight years hoping things would get better the ldquo obama stash rdquo or other special places to borrow money from to get bailed out doesn rsquo t exist anymore in fact it never did we just borrowed money from china that our kids will have to pay back later everyone needs to realize that school districts and cities need to be accountable just like businesses are in the private sector and live according to their means and adjust their budgets accordingly for an enlightening analysis of the emergency financial managers law its history its intent and what power the managers actually have download the following pdf file emergency financial manager facts 154  someone has make the tough decisions  