Or, thinks all of us are.

It’s not the government running after businesses trying to throw money at them, it’s the businesses that won’t come until they get kickbacks/bribes in the form of “incentives” to do so. (After all, in the average politician’s mind, THEY are the ones who should be getting the bribes, not handing them out.)

What they are after is good ole corporate welfare. SCPC thinks we should bow down to these almighty business people, right? Aspire to be them?

The only way I see to stop this crap is to nationalize businesses, but I don’t particularly believe in that. But, if you did, you could keep them in the US and put them where the work was needed.

What does SCPC think should be done to recruit jobs? ALL they ever do is bad mouth workers, bad mouth government, bad mouth education, bad mouth everything and that doesn’t seem to actually contribute much. They are the most negative bunch in the state. They don’t have to stay here.

“Baker: Cause and effect – government spending is more, private sector economy performs less. That is as clear as it can get”……Well, I just happen to think you’re wrong. Correlation and causality are two different things. We learn that in junior high or high school. And I don’t mean that as a snotty remark — just being straightforward.

This isn’t to say I think the GOP-dominated SC Legislature always spends money wisely. Good grief, I’m not here to defend that bunch. But this cause-and-effect stuff is awfully difficult to pin down, in my opinion.

Regarding the big push for private school choice by the Policy Council, SCRG, and Will Folks, does Delaware have a private school choice program at all — or one resembling the ideas proposed by the right in South Carolina?

Why do we do that here to a greater degree? Because our legislators run the state, and so they can.

You usually make some decent arguments, but the weak slam at the end detracted from them in this case. You can do better. Leave the bitchy-boy empty blather to BIN.

Repackaging the old song with a fluffy video extolling the virtues of capitalism rings a little hollow.

You people do know that when the Berlin Wall fell, we were the capitalist juggernaut that did it, right? We’re not educating former Soviet workers here.

Much ado about nothing.

Comparing SC vs. other states in terms of government spending as a proportion of the overall economy proves nothing. There may be correlations to point to, but it causality is another things altogether.

Maybe I’ve missed something, but does the Policy Council indicate that government spending is less per person in Delaware than it is in SC? That MIGHT suggest a causal relationship, though a poorer population may demand more in the way of government spending for a whole host of reasons. The deal is that Delaware and other states may spend every bit as much as South Carolina on infrastructure, teacher salaries, human services, and the like. There may be a range of other factors that help their economies to thrive (compared to our state, at least).

The video was pretty interesting….lightweight, but interesting, I think:

**Shots of mostly broken down communities and poor black people at the start.
**Shots of mostly white well-off people at the end — with an interesting collection of video shot in music stores. I dig music! Is the Policy Council saying artists should lead the way? I wasn’t sure.

Anyway, school choice — yeah, giving people government money (in the form of vouchers or taxpayer rebates) to send their kids to private school — that’s a winner, in the view of the Policy Council. Question: If those happy well-to-do white people at the end of the movie happen to have their kids in private school, I wonder how many of those private schools will accept the kids of the poor black people shown in the first part of the movie? Does Ashley Landess have any data on that?