S.C. Lawmakers: The Real “Swine Flu”
While South Carolinians fret the spread of “swine flu” from Mexico, we’ve been able to isolate a particularly dangerous strain of this porcine pandemic.
And no, it’s not the “probable cases” of actual pig flu found in Newberry, S.C., we’re talking about the swine flu that continues to infect our S.C. General Assembly.
Take the cases of Bobby Harrell, Glenn McConnell, Hugh Leatherman, Dan Cooper, Harry Cato, Bill Sandifer, John Courson, Larry Martin, Thomas Alexander, Kenny Bingham and David Thomas …
We just named a dozen influential House and Senate leaders or key committee chairmen – and they’ve all got it.
So do their henchmen – leadership “altar boys” like Luke Rankin, Billy O’Dell, Ray Cleary, Ronnie Cromer, Joan Brady, Jimmy Merrill, Bryan White, Richard Chalk and dozens of others.
Hell, it’s harder to find S.C. lawmakers who aren’t infected with this disease, when you stop and think about it.
Sadly, it appears the “pig flu” that so many of our legislators have contracted isn’t something they’ll be recovering from anytime soon.
If it was, you might actually be witnessing some fiscal responsibility around the State House these days.
But no, South Carolina’s budget will be bigger this year than it ever has been before – whether Gov. Mark Sanford is successful in devoting a certain portion of the federal bureaucratic bailout to debt repayment or not.
That’s sick … literally.
With an oink-oink here and an oink-oink there, these lawmakers are ramping up spending at a time when taxpayers can least afford it – and they’re doing it with money that will vanish in two years time.
Worst of all? Lawmakers are still refusing to pass any reforms to our state’s failed status quo – they’re just backing up Barack Obama’s shiny new federal dump truck and unloading billions of taxpayer dollars on all of the same unnecessary, wasteful, inefficient and totally unaccountable state agencies that have been scamming our citizens for decades.
You’ve got to be infected with something that rots your brain if you think that strategy is going to work …
The “pig flu” pandemic of 2009 will pass, but until we get a crop of S.C. lawmakers who actually care about protecting and serving Palmetto State taxpayers, we’ll continue to see a chronic epidemic of porcine fever at the State House.
Comments
By duren dwest on April 28th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
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By Defensive on May 20th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
“You’ve got to be infected with something that rots your brain if you think that strategy is going to work” Really? Have you ran the numbers on it yourself? I doubt it. Putting money in corporations is the last effort to save our economy. Your so called “tax payers” failing to pay their taxes on time, is the reason our economy is so bad in the first place. Sure, the Bush administration didn’t help, however, these men are trying to bail you out, and you say they’re stabbing you in the back. Let them take a year off, and see what kind of hell is unleashed on this state.