SC Gov. doesn't want the stimulus to work...
At least not in his state.
anyone except themselves and their own political ambitions.
Especially one from the south.
What a flaming a$$ hole.
C
South Carolina Gov. Mark SanfordGod forbid that any republican would ever do anything for
plans to ask President Obama for
permission to use part of his
state's stimulus money to pay down
its debt, not on new spending,
according to a letter he sent state
legislators Tuesday.
A longtime opponent of the
president's nearly $800 billion
stimulus package, the Republican
governor told his state's lawmakers
that spending approximately $700
million in money coming from the
federal government would only make
the state's financial situation
worse in the long term.
"[W]hen one is in a hole, the first
order of business is to stop
digging," Sanford wrote in the
letter obtained by CNN Tuesday.
Instead of spending the $700
million, Sanford plans to ask Obama
for a waiver that would allow the
state to use the funds to pay down
"our very sizable state debt and
contingent liabilities," Stanford
wrote Tuesday.
"In the unfortunate case that the
President would deny our request, I
will not seek the funds, as I
believe doing so would not help our
current economic problems and would
do real harm to our future
financial picture."
anyone except themselves and their own political ambitions.
Especially one from the south.
What a flaming a$$ hole.
C
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I wonder what he will say as neighboring states begin to see the influx of stimulus funds begin to produce jobs as he watches his own state languish. And I wonder even more what the voters there will say, don't you?
March 10, 2009 8:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
We have little room for languishing here in SC. We will be comatose by the time Sanford is done with us.
March 11, 2009 11:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
C - the governor wants the economy to recover, but he doesn't think the stimulus is a good idea (for a lot of good reasons). You may think that he wants the country to "fail" but that's not correct. This "stimulus" is not going to create jobs, fix the housing problem or fix the banks. But it will create a lot of new permanent spending that will be hard to reverse. That's obviously just an opinion, but it's a legitimate one.
March 10, 2009 9:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's an opinion, just not an informed one. Then again, yours never really are.
March 10, 2009 9:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Unlike your own fact free offerings, eh?
Heh.
March 11, 2009 12:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Shooter, you wouldn't know a fact if it bit you on the ass. I've seen your drivel polluting numerous threads here, and never, not even once, have you added anything meaningful.
That someone such as you would take the pride you do in being nothing other than a chronic pain in the ass is close to incomprehensible - much like what passes for your "arguments" - which are unfounded assertions without a shred of fact to support them.
Crawl back up from your mother's basement, sister-boy, and wipe the Cheetos dust and drool off your chin. You need a shower.
And before you even start, yes, this is an outright ad hominem. I have zero respect for you and feel no obligation whatsoever to speak to you with anything resembling civility. I frankly regard you as a lower life form, and a verminous one at that.
March 11, 2009 1:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well this kind of thinking, if one can call it that, strikes me the same as the religious fanatics who will watch their child die of peritonitis because they don't believe in surgery. And in Gov. Mark Sanford's case this is obviously retribution aimed at those bad black folks who voted for Obama.
I can't come up with a torcher evil enough for such people.
C
March 10, 2009 9:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
South Carolina attempted to secede from the Union twice. Jackson slapped her down the first time.
I always felt bad for North Carolina-I mean having to reside next to its sister state and having to share her name.
But NC came over to the light side of the force. hahahahahaha
March 10, 2009 10:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
The issue Sanford has pointed out, is that the stimulus bill requires permanent increases in welfare spending, with the knowledge Fed money will only be temporary.
In other words Obama wants Sanford to buy a house he can't afford, and will have to default on later. The nitwits here might think that's a good thing, but it's how we got to be in crisis in the first place. In short, ignorance is not bliss.
March 11, 2009 11:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
The state law has to be changed to do that and after the recovery the state law can be changed again. Or better yet, put a sunset on it.
March 11, 2009 11:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oh really? Perhaps you'd like to point out some occasion when an entitlement was willingly reduced? Considering that the Feds are circumventing Governors and going straight to state legislators, says everything one needs to know.
This stimulus is like a crack dealer offering the first taste for free.
March 11, 2009 11:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
In your Republican world, which is NOT democratic, there is no circumventing the Governor. The legislators have the authority to address the issue. There is no dictatorship where one person has all the power.
What I really like is the denial of it all. Congress made a decision as to how we will address the economic crisis. There is a strong argument based on research and history that the course of action, StimPack, is a reasonable course. The Governors wish to prevent it having ANY chance for economic recovery in their respective regions despite the fact that, when it comes time to pay for this as a nation, their people will be sharing the expense with their taxes. BRILLIANT!!!
March 11, 2009 1:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
March 11, 2009 3:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Or, they don't want more taxes mandated and benefits short termed."
So the governor vetoes Congress? Oh, okay, that's democratic.
March 11, 2009 3:04 PM | Reply | Permalink