A Warning Shot Across The Bow, From Across The Pond

Burning Our Money has been informing us on how the UK fared during the recent snows. 

The tale has not been pretty.

Snow comes, snow melts.

Incompetent governments, sadly, show up, and are loathe to melt away.

Here in the US, we haven't reached this stage. Yet.  But we are not too far from it, and 2010's cash crunch on local and state governments will begin to take hold.