Comments on: Blame Game: Inside SC’s “Employment Insecurity” Drama

By: Wake-up Call

Wake-up Call — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:27:32 +0000

What everyone keeps on missing is the fact that NOTHING WOULD HAVE BEEN DONE AND NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE EVER COME TO LIGHT WITHOUT FORMER EMPLOYEES SPEAKING OUT AND REFUSING TO BREAK THE LAW!!!! The lawmakers in Columbia didn’t just decide to dig into this themselves. They were tipped off…….haven’t you all been reading the news? And for those of you who have called the two lawsuits filed frivilous, well looky, looky, there is validity to their claims. Just look at what the Legislative Audit Council dug up…..more than they bargained for. It kinda makes everyone look stupid doesn’t it. Was anybody really doing their jobs other than the two who filed the lawsuits. It appears not, or the agency would not be in the shape it is now in. Our elected officials, the Commissioner’s in Columbia for the SCESC or any in command of that agency were not doing their jobs. You’re right….they should all be fired-immediately. We citizens should all join together and demand that a criminal investigation be done by SLED or the FEDS. There is so much more to this story than you all know. We need to demand that lawmakers get to the bottom of this and learn EVERYTHING there is to know. Don’t just scratch the surface-dig deep, you will be amazed at what you might find. What has been disclosed in the news is just the tip of the iceburg!!!!

By: You make me FITS

You make me FITS — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:39:19 +0000

FITS actually it is anti-RINO’s (or actualy Republicans) who decided to “help” the business community several years back by lowering the ESC cotributions of employers’ – which hey? who doesn’t want to pay less? – but the real problem was that despite the fact that employer’s liked paying less, it didn’t cover the benefits being paid out EVEN BEFORE THE MASSIVE UPTICK in unemployment over the past year plus. About half a decade ago the ESC trust fund had about $616 million dollars, but is now broke. Does someone need an accounting degree to realize that if the fund is being depleted faster than funds are replenished that there is an issue? This happened year after year after they cut the ESC contributions of employers, and guess what nobody wanted to discuss the $100,000,000.00+ deficit each year becasue Sandford and his fellow ideologues were being “true conservatives” never mind the fiscal foolishness of these deficits ESC was running – it was “business friendly” to slowly bankrupt the state. Therefor Sanford “screaming bloody” murder last December means nothing, nada, ziltch in my book because he ushered in the problems with his unhinghed non-factually grounded view of economics and accounting.

P.S.

You keep noting that “This convoluted structure dates back to the state’s 1895 Constitution (which is still in effect, by the way) and is based on the fear that a black man (gasp) might actually become governor one day and (gasp) have a true executive branch of government to run.”

So was the U.S. constitution and (gasp) it was written over 100 years before out state’s. The Citadel, at the time it was erected, was built to guard against more slave uprising, but despite that blemished history, is a fine institution today…should we tear it down because of its checkered past or roots???

By: Bryan McCanless

Bryan McCanless — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:27:29 +0000

Great job!
Bryan McCanless

By: Groundball

Groundball — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:21:39 +0000

I think people do get it. They may not agree with what you or I say or think. Even though I don’t necessarily agree with Ynot, we all have seen, Shaggy, that Sanford would never let the “buck” stop with him. In fact that buffoon is very adept at saying “well, they did it too, and I didn’t do it nearly as much as they did!”. Some leader.

I truly believe that there has not been a Governor in this state since Carroll Campbell who could have handled the restructuring that ya’ll are talking about. Because of the last three Governors we have elected (and especially the last), I tend to agree with JR that agency collaboration would probably work most efficiently.

But who is going to make those self important, self preservationist turf defenders work together?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:50:37 +0000

OK, after reading Ynot’s comment, I have officially lost all hope. People just don’t get it…

By: Spok

Spok — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:52:43 +0000

McConnell looks like Liberace in the picture above, I wish my brother George were here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dioRwB4RvrQ
http://www.tu.tv/videos/snl-vincent-price-s-valentine-s-day
I’ll never tell!!

By: Willam Klinton

Willam Klinton — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:30:36 +0000

Hello Clarence, is that perfume youre wearing???

By: SCCON

SCCON — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:48:50 +0000

Mark Sanford is an unfortunate distraction. It’s so convenient to blame him that people ignore the real culprit–an unwieldy, unaccountable government. The problem of unaccountability did not begin with Mark Sanford (who actually, to his credit, did at least point it out), and it will still plague us long after he has packed his bag for that long trip to Argentina. Until the constitution changes, these problems will persist. And the constitution won’t be changed until about 60% of the legislature is redeployed.

By: Willam Klinton

Willam Klinton — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:35:30 +0000

He needs to see a dentist ASAP about that Gap!

By: Dismayed

Dismayed — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:35:13 +0000

Good summary (the usual RINO blather aside). If Sanford had focused from the beginning of his first term on working on government restructuring instead of becoming distracted by efforts to get a pat on the head from the Club for Growth gang, he might have accomplished something very useful. Of course it would have depended on working with the Legislature, and little Mark does not work and play well with others, so probably there was no real chance anyway.