Comments on: SC Budget Faces New $213 Million Shortfall

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:52:24 +0000

I am beginning to lose count, buy here goes…

Yet another reason to clean House and Senate. No incumbent should be left behind!

By: Soft Sigh from Hell

Soft Sigh from Hell — Sat, 08 May 2010 13:20:32 +0000

“Sometimes it feels like we’re living in a holdover Soviet satellite state the way incompetence permeates our state government.”

A person I know who works at a state agency, DHEC’s environmental side, describes a lot of the management there as exactly that, a bunch of two-bit party apparatchiks befitting Romania in 1960. Perhaps indeed the legislature postures and blunders as some backwater-republic’s all-peoples congress or politburo.

By: Huhhh???

Huhhh??? — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:04:52 +0000

Yeah, Patricia, The Chamber of Commerce needs to lay down the law to its members.
Oh, wait, isn’t the Massey Mining guy a big shot in the COC? we know how he feels about American workers; use ‘em, lose ‘em, bring in the cheap stuff.

By: Nathan Earle

Nathan Earle — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:59:30 +0000

Virginia has a recovery plan, we do not. Which is why Virginia’s economy is comparatively healthy and why Virginia is rated as one of the top states in the nation in which to do business while South Carolina continues to languish in the grip of high unemployment and lackluster growth. Sometimes it feels like we’re living in a holdover Soviet satellite state the way incompetence permeates our state government.

By: patricia

patricia — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:19:27 +0000

Illegal immigrants are not the problem. The problem is the companies who HIRE illegal immigrants, American business owners are the problem. Stop hiring illegals and they will stop coming to our state and our country.

By: cloudtipper

cloudtipper — Fri, 07 May 2010 04:44:48 +0000

What the hell! Most of our wonderful lawmakers bitched because they didn’t want to take the stimulas & now they are bitching because they may not get any more.
We are rated in the bottom of almost everything. When will our lawmakers DO something besides taking care of their friends? Education in this state is past embarrasing. The infant mortality rate is a sin considering most of our lawmakers claim to be religious. Our lawmakers really jumped on making sure gays could not get married because it would destroy “the family”. What kind of family values lets a baby die?? Oh I forgot, that is mostly the poor & indigent citizens that seem to have that problem & our family values don’t include them. Do something to help the average citizens of this state, dammit!! Don’t just line your pockets & those of your friends. You people don’t have any shame & act proud of it.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 07 May 2010 01:33:59 +0000

Sanford didn’t mind taking the $ – he just didn’t want to be told how to use it.

By: Cancerman

Cancerman — Fri, 07 May 2010 01:17:49 +0000

If these assholes would stop funding their pet projects to get re-elected and fund core government services their would not be a budget shortfall. The state is pretty much fucked because these idiots are between a rock and their re-election.

By: Kendra

Kendra — Fri, 07 May 2010 01:15:00 +0000

“What’s the shortfall?”

The 400-500,000 illegal aliens we had living in this state at the peak before the building boom stopped are causing the deficit.

WHERE IS THE DAMN DEBATE On HIS FACT!?? NO ONE TALKS ABOUT IT!

By: Admiral_Komack

Admiral_Komack — Fri, 07 May 2010 00:27:52 +0000

Considering the governor of this state didn’t even want the stimulus, quit your bitchin’!