In one sentence, the writer lays it bare.  In declaring that no government would have the audacity to enact the kinds of cuts necessary to balance the budget, volumes are spoken.  Those of us who actually pay taxes would rejoice, yet it isn't we the government fears.  It's the public sector unions and other rent-seekers that the government fears most.  How is that even possible?  Why would any government fear the people on its payroll, and the recipients of government largesse far more than it fears the slim and shrinking majority who pay for it all?  There is something seriously wrong with that.
I'm not the first, nor the last, to remind that the unionization of government employees ultimately pits the government, and the inherent power of confiscation (taxation) against the interests of the broader society.  This writer illustrates that exactly.  Maybe we on the right need to get out ahead of the left and be the ones who show up to riot.