Wake up call for SC legislators
STATE ENDS FISCAL YEAR WITH $250 MILLION DEFICIT
Dear South Carolina General Assembly: Please stop spending money we don’t have.
South Carolina’s chief accountant says the state ended the last fiscal year with a $250.4 million budget hole, which means grants for hydrogen research, parks and tourism will not get money.
Other projects unfunded because of the budget gap include university access to a national fiber optic grid that can carry high volumes of data at high speed.
State Comptroller Richard Eckstrom says he filled the shortfall by emptying $34 million from agencies’ surplus funds, $124 million from a state reserve account and $92 million from an emergency fund. [AP]
On the plus side, Eckstrom went ahead and took the money from the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, which in all likelihood wouldn’t have been able to find where they had allocated the funds, anyway.
Of course, if you like gay beaches and/or spiffy mobile websites about gay beaches, then this is a devastating blow. You can contact your legislator here.
Seriously, the gay sh*t has to stop. What, is Rick starting up a publication called the “Southern Heterosexual”?
*Note: Edited for vulgarity*
“John” - There are only about four or five words I’m not a fan of people using on this site. I understand that you’re one of those hardcore anonymous troll types and can use big boy words, but do me a favor and at least put an asterisk or something.
- A.F.
We could always save some money by dumping some of the AWFUL local programming on SCETV. Now there is a real waste of taxpayer money!
Obsessions are interesting things.
Yeah, the $5,000 ad campaign is what put the state into a tailspin.
What about the wasted spending on special interest garbage?
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