In other words, unemployment has an adverse ripple effect…from the bottom up.

There’s still $350 Billion left in the first Reaganomics bail-out package. While there should be an Economic Stimulus Package (the larger the better) that creates jobs for the unemployed, some of the remaining $350 Billion from this bail-out package should go to states to shore up their unemployment funds during the time it takes to create these jobs.

The last thing we need is to see even more unemployed, because this will drag our economy down even further, as more and more small businesses watch their revenue shrink, causing talk of laying off workers to arise, which will only make matters worse as the unemployment rolls keep growing.

A stop has to be put to this vicious cycle now…and only government spending will work…which must have finally sunk into the pea-brain of Gov. Sanford (R-SC).

I could right 2 pages of details on how inept and wasteful this INDEPENDANTLY RUN group is.

And yet you failed to provide one example. That’s a pretty glaring ommission.

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bigbikerbo Says:

I think Sanford is probably the best governor we’ve had in my lifetime. He has brought wasteful spending down, and is making enemies right and left in the chambers of the power brokers. My hat is off to him!

You get what you vote for, and you deserve what you get, South Carolina. This is what you get for electing Republicans – blanket refusal to conduct critical state business. From what it looks like, he’s brought all spending down, wasteful or not, by merely dismantling the state government that he’s supposed to be in charge of. As if that weren’t enough, he’s polarizing the legislature, further bringing the ability of state government to meet the state’s needs to a grinding halt. Hats off indeed.

Unfortunately, the rest of us are going to have to pay to keep your f’d up state from going completely off a cliff. SC is already one of the leading drains on the federal budget, and this guy’s just making it worse by essentially refusing to do the job he campaigned for.

You might consider actually working to fix your state’s problems instead of hopping up and down screaming about imaginary waste and villanous bureaucrats. Or is that too liberal of an alternative for you/

Guess they didn’t want to starve.

Gee, I’m disappointed. :(

Thanks for stopping by. I am not from SC, nor am I a business owner, but I would like to understand the different perspectives on this issue. Would you be able to, as suggested above, provide a short list of what you feel is wrong with the SCESC. If you could point to some websites from which we could get more info, that would help. You don’t have to do all of our research for us, but you can save us a lot of time if you could point us to where we can find it, too. Thank you very much.

True story. Back in the summer of ‘94, I was working nights and had the chance to watch a lot of C-SPAN during the day. I remember when they ran a piece about then-Republican Minority Leader Bob Michel. Michel was retiring (one election too soon, I guess), and he was sitting in a room talking to a lot of reporters. I remember hearing him say, “We go back to our districts and our constituents tell us that they want government off the backs of business.” I can only infer from this that Republicans only consider the business owners in their districts to be their “constituents”. It’s the only thing that explains their actions when governing.

bigbikerbo Says:

I think Sanford is probably the best governor we’ve had in my lifetime. He has brought wasteful spending down, and is making enemies right and left in the chambers of the power brokers.

Very telling. For some reason, right-wingers think the best way to govern is to “make enemies”. Clearly an emotionally satisfying result for them. But how exactly does it help the government serve the people?

Oh, that’s right — right-wingers don’t want government to serve the people. They just want it to enrich the business community.

Now it makes sense.

Sort of like the Sarah Palin storyline eh?