Camden, SC – South Carolina’s unemployment rate remained at 8.1 percent this month, where it has been stuck for the past three months, despite declining national unemployment rates. Sen. Vincent Sheheen released this statement:
“Today’s unemployment report marks three months of no progress on jobs – South Carolina continues to have one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, all while middle-class families take a hit from falling income and struggle to keep their heads above water. The number one job of a governor is to provide opportunity and deliver results for businesses and families to thrive in a state. Small businesses are the drivers of economic growth and building a strong middle class is key to a strong future– but Nikki Haley keeps stacking the deck against them. We can do better. We must do better for the South Carolinians who are working hard, acting responsibly, and still struggling. It’s time for new leadership in South Carolina to build an economy from within and work across the aisle to deliver results.”
Read more on Sen. Sheheen’s vision for the future of South Carolina and a few of his ideas on how to support small businesses, build a strong middle class and create jobs to spur economic growth at www.vincentsheheen.com.
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“The number one job of a governor is to provide opportunity and deliver results for businesses and families to thrive in a state.”
I do not see that written in the Governor’s job description in the SC State Constitution.
ARTICLE IV.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
http://www.scstatehouse.gov/scconstitution/a04.php
If we believe it is government’s job to create jobs and grow businesses, then does capitalism really work, or even exist?
You are quite right. The practice was begun by Gov. George B. Timmerman and increased by Fritz Hollings, to personally go after businesses to come set up shop in the State. It’s a practice that every Governor, since, has emulated. At the time, South Carolina had low taxes and sucked as much money off the Federal Government as was humanly possible (a remnant of the theory that it had all been stolen during reconstruction, in the first place). South Carolina has progressively increased taxes in other areas such as sales taxes and property taxes to the point that once the incentives run out, it’s time for the company to pull up roots and bug out.
Except for Columbia, South Carolina is a great place to live, and we should continue to recruit businesses from all over. But the fact of lower taxes could easily replace a gubernatorial visit, as an incentive – although it never hurts to have a visit from your top exec., either.
If Nilki Haley is given 4 more years to suck at her coporate masters tits and continue to take a dump on the hard working people of this state there will be know one to blame but the idiots that voted for her the first time.
Just back the Obamacare man and the Party that booes the name of God and you will awaken one of these days!
What does Sen. Pinocchio, as a state senator, doing to improve this? I mean besides whining about how the governor is responsible.
Great pic there Empty Suit – is that the “hard working legislator talking to the little man on main street” pose? Or perhaps that’s the “ambulance chaser on his way back to work from the club hoping to drum up a little work” pose?
Thanks in no small part to your President; the whole country has had 5 years of no real growth in jobs. Obamacare is already causing companies to shed full time workers like a Boykin spaniel sheds water after a swim.
You can tell he’s a hard worker because he’s got his coat hooked on his hand and tossed casually over his shoulder. Look for sleeves to be rolled up in future poses. Just because Haley is not a good governor does not mean Sheheen would be a good governor.