SCDP: Nikki Haley No “Jobs Governor”
This afternoon, Nikki Haley will speak to the Spartanburg Chamber of Commerce. She will almost certaYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
This afternoon, Nikki Haley will speak to the Spartanburg Chamber of Commerce. She will almost certaYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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She’ll blame it on Obama.
Nikki Haley only cares about Nikki Haley!
You Anglo’s just don’t get it, do you
The other kids didn’t know whether I was skins or shirt so while they were staring at my chest I shoved the ball up their asses and now that I am Governor y’all are still staring at my chest and I am still shoving the ball you your asses
Jesus Christ, you people are really a bunch of dumbassess
ps yes I can say Jesus Christ, cause I am a Methodist
“You Anglo’s just don’t get it”
lol…can’t say that I do….can’t say that I do….
LOL, bad timing on this one, SCDP, as you will see in a few hours.
She is also the most transparent Governor in the history of SC.
Transparent as in her greed and corruption is on open display.
That list of layoffs should’ve included Mood Media (formerly known as Muzak) from the Fort Mill, SC area. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/01/18/3794321/muzak-moving-jobs-out-of-fort.html
Chester paper reported that Allvac Richburg had another layoff last week. Axed 70 people.
*SC job market mired in 5-year rut. “Five years after the Great Recession began in earnest in South Carolina, the state’s jobless rate remains stuck. And the state’s jobless rate – 8.1 percent – is still a full percentage point higher than it was five years ago….Escaping the recession has been a challenge for the nation and South Carolina.”
If you are going to use data to attack someone, use the correct data.
Nikki Haley was not in office 5 years ago. Her term of office started January 12, 2011. Google has a neat app that graphs unemployment rates (Google search terms: south carolina unemployment rate.) According to this data, the unemployment rate peaked at 11.9% in Nov. 2009 – Jan. 2010. When Haley took office in Jan. 2011, the unemployment rate was 10.6%, and has since dropped 2.5% (Aug. 2013.)
The Google graph also show that the 8.1% SC rate is lower than the GA & NC rates of 8.7%. The Google graph also shows the SC rate higher during peak unemployment than GA & NC, and crossing crossing those lines to where is it now lower.
There are plenty of issues to pick to level criticism, including economic ones, but citing the unemployment rate statistic is not the right one. The unemployment rate may or may not be the best metric to judge job creation, but it is a standard methodology; all the other states use it.
Damn! Those graphs show that she has been riding Obama’s recovery this whole time. She’s so sneaky!
You missing the whole point about the jobs deal. Its Nikki Haley thats making such a big deal about it. I think she even reads newspapers to see if jobs are coming to an area and then announces like it is her jobs. Nikki Haley is making that her only claim to fame. If she tries to run on jobs and jobs alone – she is a one termer.
The point is that if you are going to criticize a politician, do it for the time they are actually in office. The graph show that the unemployment rate was climbing to almost 12% around the time that Mark Sanford was climbing the Appalachian trail.
Make that 1400 employees that got thier pink slips this morning at SRS…
I was reading some reports a couple of years ago about the national unemployment picture. Turns out that on a monthly basis there are millions of jobs lost and millions of jobs created, in the neighborhood of 6 to 8 millions. In good times the net difference would be a positive 300K to 400K and in bad times a minus 200K to 400K, in uncertain, unstable times such as the present a positive 100K to 250K, slower than the growth of the population of working age. South Carolina’s population is roughly 4.6M, 1.4% of the nation’s 330M, so I would expect that South Carolina would be loosing/gaining roughly 84K jobs a month, hopefully with a net gain. No one will ever prevent this from happening, in the best of times jobs will be lost and in the worst of times jobs will be created.
With regards to Bi-Lo, I’ll give the Democrats that one. Had we had a better business environment they might not have left and maybe even created additional jobs, or drew some in from Florida. We give out of state businesses tremendous incentives to move here and stiff the ones already employing South Carolinians. There was that company in Warrenville several years ago, that suffered from the chlorine spill from the train wreck and asked Mr. Sanford for a $1M “incentive” but was told “no”. They had to shut down and put 250 people on unemployment. That’s at least $1/4 million a month for unemployment, 4 months of unemployment easily ate up the million they were asking for. Give in state companies the “incentives” if anyone but better yet make the business environment business friendly.
NIKKI,
YOUR STANDING UP TO WHATS RIGHT.
AND THE COUNTRY IS WITH YOU.
’bout time she stood up, never thought she was ever going to get off her knees
do any of you idiot have a clue about business
did you forget Boeging is investing a billion dollar in SC in spite of effort of our hapless community organizer presbo
I recently called the Governors office and spoke with a woman 3x my age, she became a little enraged in her tone, since I was questioning the lack of funding in the state when Nikki is in Greenville having parties on tax payer dollars. The little lady said “saying there is no money is the name of the game.” So this is a big joke to the big wigs in South Carolina. Money is shoved into their pockets, and the middle to low income are the ones placing it there. This is a 1980 Society in SC. And Nikki is an 80’s baby, along with her staff.