Comments on: 11%

By: Come on

Come on — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:27:55 +0000

Will, I think it’s hilarious that you turn our second highest in the nation into a story to bash our Treasurer. Any idiot knows that the primary job of the governor and his commerce secretary is job creation and bringing new business into our state. Sanford’s tenure has been pitiful on that front beccause all he cares about is promoting himself, not South Carolina. Good riddance!

By: Old Bike Dude

Old Bike Dude — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:23:19 +0000

Will, Give sanfraud the same boot he gave you. The gov’s only concern is his own ass. Markie mark needs a dose of reality. What say you go pick him up and the two of you drive down to Estill or Allendale or Fairfax or anywhere that lacks country club whiteys and features 20+% unemployment among blacks. Find a good loud smoky black club and go on in and give a speech. Let me know how that works out for ya.

By: lou

lou — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:40:19 +0000

ya’ll think those people mentioned actually have power?
HAHAHAHAAA

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:41:55 +0000

What happened to all those “soil conditions” the Ungov used to talk about. Face it, Sic, your guy’s entire economic development strategy was to cut a corporate tax rate no one else believes is too high; his entire education strategy is pay white people who send their children to private schools, and his entire governing philosophy is to blame other people for his own failure to lead anybody anywhere.

A case in point is that whole “…The way the Palmetto State calculates its unemployment percentage has been a subject of much debate…” subterfuge. South Carolina calculates its rate the same way every other state in the country does, as a matter of federal regulation. Ungov. Sanford and Joe “Drug Test” Taylor simply don’t like the numbers and need something to blame besides their own ineptitude.

By: Pat Hendrix

Pat Hendrix — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:18:11 +0000

Mark Sanford and his buds are the future of the Republican Party. The Whig Party, the Hubert Hoovers, of the 21st century.

Seriously guys, look at the gaggle of morons and crooks like Chris Dodd running the Democratic Party. You can’t offer an effective opposition? The country doesn’t function in the absence of two parties. Clinton and Newt, two a-holes of epic dimesions, managed to get the country moving in the right direction. Put out some real ideas, not this boiler-plated Club for Growth bullshit, and we might get something accomplished.

By: franksboy

franksboy — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:37:04 +0000

Too bad the number doesn’t include Barker and Buddies up there in Clemson, SC.

By: fitsnews

fitsnews — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:44:50 +0000

GnuBerry-

He didn’t. We’re not saying he did. We’re merely criticizing the idiocy of his plan to deal w/ the billion we’re going to owe the feds at the end of the year.

Nice attempted misdirection …

Who is to blame for the 11%?

A lot of people … but we’d start with Bobby Harrell, Glenn McConnell, Dan Cooper and Hugh Leatherman, all of whom like to brag about having all the power in this state – WAIT – unless we’re talking about the unemployment rate, of course.

They claim power when it involves wasting your money and blocking pro-growth tax policy, then they turn around and blame the governor (who has no power) when the fruits of those failures become painfully evident.

A solid “second” goes to Jim Rex and Inez Tenenbaum, who have fought with every fiber of their beings to preserve a hopelessly failed education system that is falling further behind the rest of the country as we speak … like it has been for decades.

Has the governor been a job creating dynamo? No. But he’s done OK when you consider the real power in this state is working AGAINST job creation.

-FITS

By: GnuBerry

GnuBerry — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:30:02 +0000

I can’t believe our Treasurer let unemployment get so high.