SC Unemployment Is Rocking Out ..
… WITH ITS “YOU KNOW WHAT” OUT
FITSNews – August 15, 2008 – When it comes to kicking ass and taking names, South Carolina’s unemployment rate might as well be Chuck Norris. Seriously, people, it’s rocking out with its “Shamma-Lamma-Ding-Dong” out …
Unemployment in South Carolina soared last month from 6.1% to 7% – it’s highest level since October of 2005. Nationally, unemployment ticked up from 5.7% to 5.9%.
Of course, in response to this news our state’s leaders continue doing the “Dingleberry Shuffle.” Rather than stimulate our economy by cutting taxes and spending, streamlining and modernizing government, leveraging the few competitive assets we have as a state or reforming our anti-business legal climate (and less-than-worthless public education system), South Carolina’s “Republican” leaders have instead decided to roll out a bold new government initiative to combat unemployment.
That’s right, people, our “pillars of success” and “innovation pipelines” are coming to the rescue faster than you can say “command economy.”
Comments
By Stupid is as stupid does on August 15th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
The S.C. legislature should do what the federal government has done and send me a check immediately . Frankly I am too dam stupid to realize they might have to raise my taxes to cut me a check . Or maybe they just run up a budget deficit and print more money to water down the value of my check – either way is a o k by me.
By Philotiger on August 15th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
The stupid bitch in the New York Sun just about had an orgasm breathlessly
praising the S.C. business environment and now you go and
point out that things aren’t so rosy in S.C. after all. Wouldn’t be simplier
(and more honest) to just admit that the citizens of our beloved state
are by and large just a bunch ignorant dumbfucks and that this
simple fact pretty much explains our failure to become an
economic role model for the rest of the country? No amount of state-
vouchered private schooling or ginned up “mo money” public
schooling is going to change this basic fact.
By Sanford Does Not Have A Clue on August 15th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
“Pippi Wrongstockings” got this one right:
http://www.thestate.com/editorial-columns/story/487137.html
By Red Bank Bar on August 15th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I love this post. It’s a perfect response to your Dumb-F*ck Mandy who recently told us the economy is in great shape. She sounds like a financially challenged John McSame, something heretofore thought impossible.
By moonbeam searcher on August 16th, 2008 at 9:38 am
where is the governor. Who is the governor?
What does whoever is the governor do all day?
Callinlg Moonbean, come in Moonbeam……
By Big Oil Bob on August 16th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Poor people in SC are getting educated and less scared by power. One day soon………… you folks with money and power better get out your shotguns ’cause there are more working poor than they are of you folks!
By D.Reinert on September 3rd, 2008 at 11:38 am
Maybe some of our problems are brought about more by home rule than by the state. We have plenty of local bureaucrats with fat heads not only squandering taxpayers money on monuments to their egos but actually coming up with crap like the Greenville Plan to circumvent the constitution and put the taxpayers deeper into debt. Just before the tax swap took effect several counties jumped on the wagon, loading their citizens with decades of debt and wiping out most of the savings from the tax swap, even increasing the taxes of the people who could afford it the least. This also placed a dramatic hit on local small businessmen who didn’t realize any savings from the swap and then took the hit of increased school taxes from the now illegal financing scheme. So what results have we seen from this underhanded scheme, after over a billion dollars Greenville drops 24 points in the SAT, after $315 million Pickens drops 13 points, local small businesses shutting doors, other businesses refusing to locate unless they get hefty tax breaks which wouldn’t be necessary if the taxes were fair in the first place. Sure, our state legislatures could be more responsible, but let’s lay some of the blame where it belongs, right at our own back door. Remember, the tax swap came about because of pressure from citizens about the high and ever increasing local school property taxes. It was a bad idea, and most of the Taxpayers Associations across the state were against it, but it was a state response to local school boards out of control.
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