Quote of the day--on transition

"We are leaving an era where to be a mayor, governor, senator or president was, on balance, to give things away to people. And we are entering an era where to be a leader will mean, on balance, to take things away from people. It is the only way we’ll get our fiscal house in order before the market, brutally, does it for us."     --Thomas L. Friedman, Columnist, The New York Times


Link:  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/opinion/26friedman.html?src=me&ref=general