Comments on: McMaster Backs Sanford On “Stimulus” Funds

By: John

John — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:28:34 +0000

What a wonderful State we live in as the Legislature now prepares for a 9.5% across the board budget cut. Prisoners on the street. Teachers out of work. All the while, Markie tries to sell the $3.5 mm beach house, and drives a tractor on the plantation. Remember “Hoover-villes” we’ll have “Sanford-villes” Good job Markie! Congrats.

By: Obama Vs. Sanford (Two Peas in an iPod) | The Pink Flamingo

Obama Vs. Sanford (Two Peas in an iPod) | The Pink Flamingo — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:20:01 +0000

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By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:35:18 +0000

From the Senate finance committee meeting today. What will happen if Gov. Sanford does not take the money? Unprecedented budget cuts, which will mean:

3,000 – 6,000 teachers fired
500 social workers fired
3100 inmates released, some violent offenders
3 prisons closed
Elimination of after-school, early intervention, and theraputic childcare programs
35 SLED officers let go
35 state troopers let go
30+ county extension agents let go
15 county extension offices closed
And this is just a small picture of what was handed down today….The senate finance committee chairman called the results of Gov. Stanford’s stand-off “financial armageddon” and theorized that the people of South Carolina will march on Columbia.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:06:04 +0000

Mark Sanford Spelling Song

VIDEO:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6329328762201502804&ei=uk7FSa7XBobSqQL4zfWDCw&q=mark+sanford&hl=en

By: Not Sayin', Just Sayin'

Not Sayin', Just Sayin' — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:23:17 +0000

The White House is now saying only governors can accept stimulus money, and that a legislature can’t bypass them: http://www.thestate.com/breaking/story/734608.html

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:12:05 +0000

OBAMA LETTER TO SANFORD: IF YOU DO NOT APPLY FOR FEDERAL STIMULUS FUNDS, MONEY WILL NOT BE THERE

Among the numerous rumors swirling around Columbia is a report that President Barack Obama has told Gov. Mark Sanford that if he does not apply for federal stimulus funds, the money will not be available for South Carolina.

And The Palmetto Scoop has now confirmed that Obama has, in fact, sent Sanford a very blunt, personal letter saying just that.

The correspondence reportedly states that roughly $700 million in discretionary stimulus money allocated for South Carolina will be revoked on Friday if Sanford declines to accept the funds and that, by law, no alternative options can be accepted.

Take it or lose it
http://www.palmettoscoop.com/2009/03/31/take-it-or-lose-it/

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:45:57 +0000

I would rather cast my lot with Mark Sanford and Company, than Jim Clyburn and his.

We are losing our freedoms on a daly basis, and this debt (and other new debt as well) is no different than an invading army. They both will leave us poorer, less free, and less American.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:04:43 +0000

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Hugh Leatherman said he’d now have to write a budget without the stimulus cash because of the potential legal challenge. That budget would cut public school spending by $161.6 million, college spending by $44.2 million and law enforcement and public safety agency budgets by $39.4 million.

“Based upon what we’ve heard this morning, if this governor can be so callous and so hardhearted to not draw down these funds for the benefit of our people, in my opinion, the governor has absolutely no interest in this state and the people that he governs,” said Leatherman, R-Florence.

By: Secessionista

Secessionista — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:34:21 +0000

Few of the loud-mouth woeful and whiners obviously have paid no attention to history, which like a swollen river, will wash us of its disasters lest we install the levies. Should we cave to this federal extortion, we might expect the White House to remove and imprison those state officials who disagree with them (see Maryland history when its members were jailed when they refused Lincoln’s edicts — albeit on emotinally-charged, awful slavery issue that overshadowed states’ rights and the treatment of them as foreign nations). Are we becoming like those Third World nations we feed billions to while they extend one hand for the taking and a sword in the other? Lord forbid the little we have in exports are tarriffed by union-ruling states in this day. Fire another shot from Fort Sumter, boys. I’ve got my powder dry.

By: James the Foot Soldier

James the Foot Soldier — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:31:42 +0000

BRAVO Henri!

When this charade winds its way to the US Supreme Court you’ll have a favorable panel backing your opinion.

Congressman Clyburn will be further exposed as nothing more an ATM machine – great career to look back on, eh sugar-daddy?