Comments on: Take it or lose it [UPDATED]

By: Julie Weathersby

Julie Weathersby — Sun, 24 May 2009 19:54:12 +0000

Sanford shows a lot of courage in standing up for his convictions. He is exactly right. There is no point in robbing Peter to pay Paul. If our state takes this money, ::shudder:: we’ll end up just like the crappy state of California with the entire state government on the brink of collapse.

Mama always said nothing in life comes for free and she was right.

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By: Paul Hines

Paul Hines — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:59:08 +0000

Sanford just does not get it. Value is increased by using cash to invest in higher return investments than the cash costs. Education is the highest return investment, see all the available analyses. You can change your opinion but you can not change the facts.

In this case, our leader wants to reduce 6% +/- interest costs instead of earning the benefits of investing in the highest return investment, education. I.E. What he wants to do is chump change!

Those against taking the money clearly want to maintain this states last place in Education and first place in joblessnes. Brilliant! Even George Bush said “If government does not respond to the needs of it citizen,it will not survive”.

Can our great leader, decider who does not give the citizens what they want be impeached? What are the consequences to “private school” Sanford compared to the rest of the population. “Let them eat cake”?

By: darkstar

darkstar — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:29:43 +0000

“johndozier Apr 1st, 2009 at 2:48 pm
While I have been critical of the Governor in the past,he is exactly right on this point. What do you do when the stimulus money goes away and you are committed to a certain level of funding. REAL chaos and bloodletting would occur. You never fund on going obligations with one time money. It is disastrous fiscal policy.”

Nonsense. You listen to too much right wing radio. Explain how you would be forever committed to the funding. You can’t, because you wouldn’t be.

What you do is stand up and have some courage and explain to your constituents what you are doing and why. Then you make the hard decisions and take responsibility for them.

The bottom line is the economy is going to get better, eventually. And Obama will get all the credit and R’s will look even more useless then they do now. Just take the money and fix all the sh*t you have thats crumbling to the ground while you have the chance.

By: David O

David O — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:31:46 +0000

Just say NO to the stimulus hawks!

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:07:58 +0000

Republicans have nothing against the deaf and blind, we just don’t think we should have to pay for their schooling. That should be done with private funds except in dire circumstances.

Just like if we can get vouchers or tax credits for private schools, most working people should be able to afford to send their kids to a private school of some type. That way the people using the schools pay for the schools and we can dramatically scale back all that money we are spending in the Department of Education.

We will always need some public schools for the people who are too poor to pay anything for private school, but if we encourage as many people as possible to get into private school we should be able to dramatically reduce the number of public schools we are supporting on the back of the taxpayer.

This will in turn allow us to get the state out of employing all these teachers who we then have to fund retirement and health care for. The private sector can take over that, and private schools will not have to buy into these high dollar retirement and health care plans and 3 month summer vacations.

By: William Hamilton

William Hamilton — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:33:44 +0000

STOP CALLING MARK SANFORD

Call his Republican Friends in the Republican Dominated Legislature and ask them to control their Republican Governor or face challenged in house districts in the Lowcountry, Midlands and Corridor of Shame in 2010

Detailed blog post on Organizing for America Website:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/williamhamiltonmtpSC/gGxgWk

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:25:37 +0000

James, thank you for your courageous stand against the deaf and blind! I’m sure that many right-thinking Americans share your desire that those “waists of money” will just go away.

By: Donnie Bailey

Donnie Bailey — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:18:42 +0000

HONORABLE MR SANFORD,PLEASE REMAIN HONORABLE AND STAND FIRM ON YOUR DECISION TO REFUSE TO ACCEPT THESE MONIES.I CAN AND DO UNDERSTAND AND SUPPORT THAT DECISION.

By: James

James — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:07:35 +0000

“These are mostly Democrat give away programs anyway..

Department of Education 158,000,000
Department of Health & Human Services 58,000,000
Department of Disb. and Special Needs 11,500,000
Dept of Mental Health 13,150,000
DHEC 8,300,000
Dept of Social Services 8,000,000
School for the Deaf and Blind 1,000,000
USC 10,300,000
Clemson 6,300,000
Dept of Corrections 21,900,000
Dept of Juvenile Justice 6,100,000
MUSC 5,500,000″

Ah, refusing help: the reason South Carolina is leading the nation in self-reliance, per-capita income, and education. Thanks for making us look good, guys!