Look: The Budget Crisis is a Good Thing Too!

It's funny how we are now seeing articles abound about how unemployment and forced furloughs are not such a bad thing anymore now that Obama is in office. Take for example this article in the WSJ about Lance Morris, a California state employee who is one of the 200,000 California state employees who are forced to take unpaid leave once a week.

"We can actually do more things as a family, and we don't have to deal with the crowds," Mrs. Morris said as she stood on a deck at the Boreal Mountain Resort watching her husband, Lance, and their 16-year-old son, Keegan, snowboarding on a gloriously clear Friday. "I absolutely love it."

This is "Furlough Friday" and it's becoming a staple around the country as state governments force workers to take a weekly day off—usually Friday—to help bridge budget gaps.

I am very happy that Mr. Morris and others may be enjoying more time with family and more days off. And if it works so well in California, perhaps we should try it at the federal level as well - it would certainly help reduce the deficit and it might make people happier. Heck, let's give them 2 days off and they should be ecstatic.

I don't think anyone will complain either, because let's face it - our economy would do just fine with a much smaller government.