Let's not even get into the fact that DHEC doesn't protect the environment, that DHHS spends millions trying not to provide health and human services, that DOT is letting our road infrastructure rot, that we're shutting down juvenile crime early intervention services at DJJ....What's going on here? Are we really that backwards a region? Are we really incapable of running a state government? Or is there a malevolence to this incompetence?
Here's a hint: Mike Huckabee has just endorsed Andre Bauer for Governor. Why? Because he is capable, smart and experienced? Because the Lieutenant Governor's Office has instituted innovative new ways to serve the elderly in a time of nearly unparalleled challenge? Because he understands economic development or has vast educational experience? Nope.
"Andre Bauer is a champion we can believe in. He has fought for the people of South Carolina since the day he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1996. As Lt. Governor, he has ruled against every single proposed tax increase, saving the people of South Carolina $2 billion." That's right. Huckabee believes that Bauer should be governor because he's committed to undermining functioning government.
The reason that South Carolina government is so bad is that our state leadership believes that government is evil and they want to make certain that it can never be redeemed. Keeping South Carolina government incompetent is the only way to make sure that the voters will keep returning them to office, so they can continue to sing the praises of smaller government and lower taxes.
It's not just incompetence. It's deliberate and malevolent. And it works.
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You are absolutely right. Maybe SC will begin to understand, when people have to explain to their children why that man lying there on the street won't wake up. What scares me is that they may tell their children that he 'chose' to do that.
I think they will avert their eyes and pretend the man lying in the street doesn't exist. If you can't "see" a problem, then you don't have deal with it.
But sooner or later, it starts to stink...not that it'll be noticed over the effluvium coming from the state house.
In 1980, Reagan reversed the few environmental protections that Carter managed to get in place, and convinced us that government was bad and should simply get out of the way. We swalled it hook, line and sinker. Also in 1980, Denmark was entering it's 8th or 9th year of strict environmental regulation and heavy taxation on big polluters. today, they are 99% free of foreign oil - - AND they're the happiest people in the world.
Someday, we will realize that government CAN do some good things
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