100 Jobs Came Here? What?

Let’s be honest, people … South Carolina wasn’t exactly lighting it up on the job creation front back in June when our good governor decided to go AWOL for a little Argentine “poontang erectile,” thus launching the state on an embarrassing two-month drama that seems to deepen with each passing day.

In fact, the Palmetto state was sucking wind – much as it always has.

Now South Carolina’s utter lack of competitiveness has been accompanied by complete and total national humiliation, a combination which makes even the most inconsequential job announcement appear to be the be-all, end-all of economic development.

Accordingly, in news that was trumpeted by Gov. Mark Sanford’s office like the second coming of the Son of our Lord, General Electric Aviation announced Tuesday that it would be adding 100 jobs to its Upstate, South Carolina operations.

Yeah, 100 jobs.

The company makes high-pressure turbine blades (pictured) that will … wait for it … “suck wind” (and occasionally birds) for commercial airplanes.

How fitting.

The company – which currently has 170 S.C. workers – will move from a 50,000-square-foot facility to a 150,000-square-foot facility (both located in Greenville, S.C.0, although capital investment figures were not immediately available.

Also unavailable?

The incentives that were given GE Aviation by South Carolina’s Department of Commerce, which Gov. Sanford credited in his press release as having landed the jobs.

We assume that they must have given away the proverbial farm, though, because only the bravest of souls would dare venture into these waters with their hard-earned capital.

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