“New” Carolina: What A Bunch Of Commie Crap

If we had a nickel for every time Darla Moore said that South Carolina needs to expand government, then we might have as much money as Darla Moore …

Or … we would at least have as much money as South Carolina has blown following Moore’s big government advice over the last four years, only to watch our state’s ass-backwardness accelerate.

Of course if we had all that money, it would mean we could shell out God knows how many hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce a bunch of slick PR materials (not to mention the gayest video ever) to gloss over our meaningless feelgood drivel and convince people that all the same B.S. that hasn’t worked can in fact be resold in a new package.

Like this God awful status quo manifesto …

We, the tenacious people of New Carolina, declare independence from mediocrity. We will reach beyond past mistakes and build on historic successes toward a bright future that lifts our families, our schools, our businesses. From this day forward, we will demonstrate a new will and forge a new way. With tireless passion, bold leadership and decisive action, we will silence the nay-sayers, the doubters, the cynics. We will encourage the innovators and teachers, and celebrate the courageous. In doing so, we will become a leader in public education, entrepreneurial success, personal income and quality of life. Each day we will reach for, and push each other, until one day the world will acknowledge us as “The New Land of Opportunity.” New energy. New ideas. New action. New Jobs.

Seriously, people. Pull your heads out of the toilet. It’s over …

Anyway, they can wrap up this shiny happy hippie junk in whatever “new sunrise” package they want, but it doesn’t change the fact that this is the same old tired commie bullsh*t that Moore and her “public-private” Palmetto Institute Bolsheviks have been regurgitating (all over us) for years.

In fact, you’ll notice that dim bulbs behind this report are also behind the pyramids, pillars and pipelines of our state’s taxpayer-funded Ponzi Scheme.

Which is why Moore’s plan to make South … sorry, “New” Carolina … the “New Land of Opportunity” is not surprisingly centered around spending more taxpayer money on our failed public schools, more taxpayer money on our bloated and inefficient higher ed system, more taxpayer money on “distressed areas” of the state and more taxpayer money on new government programs.

Which may or may not be “shiny.”

Of course, if you’re looking for government efficiency and accountability, spending caps and tax cuts, or market-based education reforms, this is clearly not the report for you.

And while we its pages certainly pay lip service to “increasing support for start-ups and local firms,” we’d like to remind you that Moore’s buddies at the South Carolina Research Authority (who are featured prominently in that section of this report), just ripped off $8 million that was supposed to go to local start-ups so that they could free it up for the state’s research universities.

Which we would say is a very curious definition of “support.”

Anyway, since we’re obviously “nay-sayers” as far as this bogus report is concerned, and “doubters” as it relates to all of its command economic strategeries, we’re guessing that Moore and her Kommie Granola Buddies (KGB) over at the Palmetto Institute will now, as promised, set out to “silence” us.

Isn’t that what they said? “We will silence the nay-sayers, the doubters, the cynics?”

Well, they’re too late … because we’ve already nailed our 95 Theses to the door, people. And just like Martin Luther we’re all about spreading the word.

A “New Carolina” may one day rise, but it certainly won’t until policymakers put down whatever it is these crackpots are smoking …

We’ve tried all this left-leaning crap before and guess what … it didn’t work.

Now it’s time to try something else …

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