Comments on: Sanford Report: S.C. Budget & Control Board Could Save $500 Million http://www.fitsnews.com/2007/07/12/sanford-report-sc-budget-control-board-could-save-500-million/ Politics, Sports and Pop Culture Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:24:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: duffy http://www.fitsnews.com/2007/07/12/sanford-report-sc-budget-control-board-could-save-500-million/#comment-2116 duffy Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:34:51 +0000 http://69.89.31.161/~fitsnews/?p=1463#comment-2116 How about using software that actually generates an indexable PDF? This reports was written (most likely with MS Word), printed, and then scanned into 97 page image. Can't search it and slow to print. How about using software that actually generates an indexable PDF? This reports was written (most likely with MS Word), printed, and then scanned into 97 page image. Can’t search it and slow to print.

]]> By: looks good http://www.fitsnews.com/2007/07/12/sanford-report-sc-budget-control-board-could-save-500-million/#comment-2117 looks good Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:27:37 +0000 http://69.89.31.161/~fitsnews/?p=1463#comment-2117 There is only one rule you have to know about Mark Sanford in order to understand him. “Everything he does is designed to make HIM look good…and he can care less about the people of SC”. Whether it is his budget vetoes or executive decisions or failure to fill state vacancies or any action you care to name…they all make him look good to the masses while proving to be completely ineffectual as policy. But by any standard he is a miserable failure. That the press gives him a pass is a demonstration of his personal charm (as used on the editors)…and a true disgrace to the state of the modern media. There is only one rule you have to know about Mark Sanford in order to understand him.
“Everything he does is designed to make HIM look good…and he can care less about the people of SC”.
Whether it is his budget vetoes or executive decisions or failure to fill state vacancies or any action you care to name…they all make him look good to the masses while proving to be completely ineffectual as policy.
But by any standard he is a miserable failure. That the press gives him a pass is a demonstration of his personal charm (as used on the editors)…and a true disgrace to the state of the modern media.

]]> By: SBCB http://www.fitsnews.com/2007/07/12/sanford-report-sc-budget-control-board-could-save-500-million/#comment-2120 SBCB Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:53:04 +0000 http://69.89.31.161/~fitsnews/?p=1463#comment-2120 Blood on the floor at the Budget and Control Board The debate about the status of the SC Budget and Control Board is heating up. Longtime employees are retiring or finding other jobs. Other employees, including good employees with solid records, are looking for a way out. Each and every day, employees of the South Carolina Budget and Control Board are stressed out wondering what their futures are. I realize some think that the Budget and Control Board should be eliminated. I agree with that premise to some degree. But, there is a situation developing in which good people are trying to find a way out of state government service. Longtime employees are frustrated and confused. They wonder if their years of service mean anything. Those who can are jumping out of state government service. Governor Sanford seems to be oblivious to what is happening, though the rank and file members of the State Budget and Control Board seem to blame the Governor for the situation. One employee of the State Budget and Control Board confided to me recently that it was his belief that the Governor wanted people to quit or retire so the Governor could appoint his own friends to the jobs that would hand out big state contracts. I do not know if that is true, but I do know that perhaps the agency in the state government with the most power is being demoralized and demeaned, for whatever reason. As I said before in this space, I would like to see the Budget and Control Board eliminated, and replaced with another administrative agency under the Governor. However, if any Governor is seeking to reform that board in a way that can only reward his friends that is wrong. Currently, the State Budget and Control Board is governed by Governor Mark Sanford, Treasurer Thomas Ravenel, Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom, Representative Dan Cooper and Senator Hugh Leatherman. Political rumors are flying that Cooper is about to retire and that Leatherman has a tough re-election battle ahead in 2008. That leaves the former three, who seem to be in lock step when it comes to Budget and Control Board issues. As one politico put it to me recently, “Thomas Ravenel calls Mark Sanford to make sure which way he (Ravenel) should vote in Budget and Control Board meetings..” Again, I have not problem with reform. But, if one set of good old boys and gals is replacing another at the perhaps the state’s most important agency for another, in the name of so called reform, than something is wrong. Sure, there are plenty of employees at the state Budget and Control Board who ought to be shown he door for not working and the like. But, to replace them with just more political hacks does a disservice to the people who actually work at the Budget and Control Board and to the people of this state. South Carolina deserves better. The people of South Carolina, and the employees of the Budget and Control Board who work hard everyday do not deserve such treatment Blood on the floor at the Budget and Control Board
The debate about the status of the SC Budget and Control Board is heating up. Longtime employees are retiring or finding other jobs. Other employees, including good employees with solid records, are looking for a way out. Each and every day, employees of the South Carolina Budget and Control Board are stressed out wondering what their futures are.
I realize some think that the Budget and Control Board should be eliminated. I agree with that premise to some degree. But, there is a situation developing in which good people are trying to find a way out of state government service.
Longtime employees are frustrated and confused. They wonder if their years of service mean anything. Those who can are jumping out of state government service. Governor Sanford seems to be oblivious to what is happening, though the rank and file members of the State Budget and Control Board seem to blame the Governor for the situation.
One employee of the State Budget and Control Board confided to me recently that it was his belief that the Governor wanted people to quit or retire so the Governor could appoint his own friends to the jobs that would hand out big state contracts.
I do not know if that is true, but I do know that perhaps the agency in the state government with the most power is being demoralized and demeaned, for whatever reason.
As I said before in this space, I would like to see the Budget and Control Board eliminated, and replaced with another administrative agency under the Governor. However, if any Governor is seeking to reform that board in a way that can only reward his friends that is wrong.
Currently, the State Budget and Control Board is governed by Governor Mark Sanford, Treasurer Thomas Ravenel, Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom, Representative Dan Cooper and Senator Hugh Leatherman. Political rumors are flying that Cooper is about to retire and that Leatherman has a tough re-election battle ahead in 2008. That leaves the former three, who seem to be in lock step when it comes to Budget and Control Board issues. As one politico put it to me recently, “Thomas Ravenel calls Mark Sanford to make sure which way he (Ravenel) should vote in Budget and Control Board meetings..”
Again, I have not problem with reform. But, if one set of good old boys and gals is replacing another at the perhaps the state’s most important agency for another, in the name of so called reform, than something is wrong. Sure, there are plenty of employees at the state Budget and Control Board who ought to be shown he door for not working and the like. But, to replace them with just more political hacks does a disservice to the people who actually work at the Budget and Control Board and to the people of this state. South Carolina deserves better. The people of South Carolina, and the employees of the Budget and Control Board who work hard everyday do not deserve such treatment

]]> By: Pandy http://www.fitsnews.com/2007/07/12/sanford-report-sc-budget-control-board-could-save-500-million/#comment-2119 Pandy Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:50:53 +0000 http://69.89.31.161/~fitsnews/?p=1463#comment-2119 Show me the results, and I will believe it. Mark Sanford promises things, and they never appear. Remember low taxes, efficient government, working with the general assembly, etc. Sanford is out harping about "big box tax cuts"...in July when the session does not begin in earnest till Feb.He talks about spending his campaign money against the RINO's...and spends a whopping $22,000. uuuuu, ain that something! Nothing Mark Sanford says ever pans out. This wont either.Sadly, I voted for him twice. Show me the results, and I will believe it.

Mark Sanford promises things, and they never appear. Remember low taxes, efficient government, working with the general assembly, etc. Sanford is out harping about “big box tax cuts”…in July when the session does not begin in earnest till Feb.He talks about spending his campaign money against the RINO’s…and spends a whopping $22,000. uuuuu, ain that something!

Nothing Mark Sanford says ever pans out. This wont either.Sadly, I voted for him twice.

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]]> By: Don Johnson http://www.fitsnews.com/2007/07/12/sanford-report-sc-budget-control-board-could-save-500-million/#comment-2121 Don Johnson Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:01:02 +0000 http://69.89.31.161/~fitsnews/?p=1463#comment-2121 You mean the B&CB is mismanaged and bureaucratic? NO. Say it ain't so! You mean the B&CB is mismanaged and bureaucratic? NO. Say it ain’t so!

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