GOVERNOR’S RECORD OF “OPPORTUNITY AND PROSPERITY” CHALLENGED
National “Republican” leaders are praising S.C. governor Nikki Haley as having brought “opportunity and prosperity to the people of her state.” In fact along with her gender and ethnicity, that’s one reason they selected Haley to give the “Republican” response to U.S. president Barack Obama‘s 2016 State of the Union address.
Is it true, though?
Palmetto State Democrats sent out a news release this week challenging Haley’s economic record – arguing her rhetoric hasn’t been matched with real progress.
“Next Tuesday, America will see a poised and confident speaker in South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley,” S.C. Democratic Party (SCDP) chairman Jamie Harrison said. “But, what they won’t see, and what they certainly won’t hear about, is the despair that has plagued our state as a result of her leadership.”
“What Gov. Haley doesn’t want you to know is that South Carolina is hurting,” Harrison added. “While she’s smiling in front of the cameras, normal people in our state are struggling just to get by.”
That’s true …
South Carolina’s income levels continue to lag well behind the national average. So does our state’s labor participation rate – which consistently hovers at around five percentage points behind the national rate (itself hovering at four-decade lows).
Oddly, though, Harrison and Haley don’t differ all that much regarding their proposed “solution” to this chronic lack of prosperity: More government.
Since Haley took office in 2011, South Carolina’s “Republican-controlled” legislature has passed massive spending increases drafted by liberal lawmakers – with Haley approving virtually every cent.
In fact they are poised to do so again this year …
Will any of that make South Carolina more competitive? Don’t be silly. This is the same nonsensical path pursued by “Republicans” during the previous decade – a.k.a. the “Lost Decade.”
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My oh my.The Democrat race hustlers loved Nikki when she thru those that elected her under the bus and removed the confederate flag.
My oh my how times change.Never trust a Democrat or RINO.
No I couldn’t stand her and her shameless attempts to benefit herself at the expense of the citizens and taxpayers of this state before she was governor. Her flag stance was merely to benefit herself. She doesn’t give a shit about South Carolinians and never has.
Nikki will rise or fall on ONE issue in her ‘response’ to the ‘Muslim/agitator in Chief’.
If she sounds like Trump on immigration she wins.If she sounds like Obama/Rubio on immigration she loses.The 2016 elections are about immigration.Trump has tied it to crime,jobs,foreign policy,trade and now guns.
The choice is Haley’s.My guess is she will give the ‘establishment’ line on immigration as she really doesn’t believe in a damn thing except her political life.
Rocky Verdunce lasted all of 48 hours. Meet the new flip, same as the old flip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYMD_W_r3Fg
I have a theory on why the get nixed. The timing is always interesting. In fact, the time on most of Flip’s posts are rather interesting. If I was a bettin’ man……….
I’d say he lives in Inida and is a software developer.
Research.I have found that ‘This Post was Deleted’ doesn’t appear to certain contributors on Fits News after a Disqus account is deleted.
Interesting.I think I know why. :)
No. Because every post Verdunce made was replaced with THis Post Was Deleted.
False.Not the reply’s to Boz,Thumper,shifty and a couple of others. :)
Yes they were. Here’s a more valid test. Kill off Dudley Verputz. Anywhere you replied to someone there will show This Post Was Deleted. If the thread started with your own post, that entire thread would disappear without any message. Hence, our entire conversation right now would be gone since it stated with you’re post in the first position without any dependencies. So the one starting with My Oh My, would simply disappear.
False.The reply’s to Rocky Verdad and tomstickler that disappeared were replaced with ‘This Post Was Deleted’. The ones to Thumper,Boz and shifty weren’t.
The entire threads don’t disappear.
You just edited the account with a new name The Ohio blah blah. You need to delete it. Then see what happens. And no duh, I don’t work for FITS – but I did stay at Holiday Inn last night.
I know you don’t work for Fits.My ‘theory’ proves that you don’t.
Your theory is wrong in that somehow if it doesn’t show This Post Was Deleted they work for FITS. Silly!!! If you start the thread, and delete the account, that thread disappears, you started it, and it’s just gone. You essentially are the owner of that thread. If someone else started the thread, they own it, and you’re deleting the account simply deletes your comments, and it leaves a This Post Was Deleted. Geeesh!!!!!
False.
Hopeless.
pogo/flip/GrandTango/Rocky Verdunce/resident bore is drunk…….again.
I guarantee he probably pops pills too.
Just a sad, lonely and wasted loser.
Having him around is like Ground Hog Day the movie.
A much dumber version.
FITS is following me. I just know it. He’s spying on my wee wee room. He drives past my house all night long. I’m keeping the blinds shut, and driving different ways to work. Wait…….
lol…Fits is ok…I just love making you clowns look like fools!
“I just love making you clowns look like fools!”
pogo talking to the ghosts of his deleted disqus accounts.
You’re dad…I meant dud…
“What Gov. Haley doesn’t want you to know is that South Carolina is hurting,”…
What Pres. Obama doesn’t want you to know is so is most of the United States.
But it’s doing better than when she took office.
They are really giving her the big push, possible VP….and republicans from SC will try to drag her down.
Somebody grab the popcorn!
She hasn’t got a snow ball’s chance. South Carolinians are waiting on that bitch.
South Carolina has ALWAYS lagged behind the rest of the country. Has nothing to do with Gov Haley. We just ain’t got much to work with here.
Reading this comments section certainly backs up everything you typed.
I’d rather hear Nikki Haley read he phone book than listen to Jamie Harrison on any subject except “why I am resigning from my position in the SC Democratic Party” and I’d only listen to that long enough to make sure she was going away.
Here we go again.
Yeah, well, fuck Haley AND the Dems. GOP and Tea Party too. Fuck ’em all!
LMAO!!! I forgot you like to roll with communists and Green Party activists like Gloria Tinabu.
Haha! “Rocky Verdunce” is missing out on his shot at going national.
Starting to think that Verduce guy is nuts. Nuts I tell you.
Recall that Gov. Bobby Jindal made the response a few years back. How’d that work out for him? Out of office and out of prospects.
But NIMRATA has much bigger ASS-ETS to fall bavk on!
YOU BETCHA!
I CAN SEE HOOKER BOOTS FROM MY HOUSE!!!!!!!
But his state is doing much worse since he took office.
The opposite has happened with Nikki in SC.
But fellow republican voters will attack her, like they do these days, so we won’t have to worry about her.
If South Carolina is so terrible then why is it the 2nd most popular destination in the USA for people to move? More people moved to SC last year than all other states except Oregon and it is ranked as the 23rd most populous state. If it’s so terrible here, shouldn’t more people be moving out instead of in?
Interesting because Oregon really sucks. Washington is nice. But Oregon is a dump. Maybe they’re moving to Oregon to clean up the Hanover nuclear site?
Or to occupy Malheur Refuge.
But it is in Washington.
Oregon is being soiled by the Californicators that soiled California. Otherwise is it just “so Ducky”
Great post.I love South Carolina.Despite Boz’s desire to destroy the reputation of Myrtle Beach with his lies on FitsNews (cause they ran him out of town?) it is a great place to visit.So is Garden City,Surfside,Murrels Inlet and Pawleys Island.Charlestion is beautiful and the Isle of Palms is my favorite.Love stopping in Columbia and staying downtown and/or attending a college world series game at USC(attened a couple years ago as a kid I coached played for Campbell).Greenville is cool and love eating oysters at Bimini’s.
Not after driving on our roads! Pathetic of Haley and the General Ass., Sen. and House.
I will agree our roads are horrible, and a lot of us in this state are terrible drivers! But all in all SC is a beautiful state. We’ve got beaches, lowcountry, quaint towns, mountains, fairly good deer hunting, good produce, and most of us have good manners; not too much there isn’t to love about this state.
Nice repost. I don’t hunt bambi, but my son hunts around Rimini and never comes back without a carcass to be dressed. I hunt Donald and Dove. Love me some fresh roasted dove.. Good eats!.
If only you could replace the people…
Too many damn Yankees, now.
Probably retirees that lived somewhere that paid a living pension and moved here upon retirement. Moving to an economically depressed area usually allows you to buy more with what you have.
Exactly. My in-laws recently retired here from up north for that very reason. Cheap real estate, cheaper taxes & less snow.
Thank god more northerns are moving to SC.
They’ll really improve things there.
South Carolina is just full of welfare recipients and people who don’t have the motivation to go get a job as a result. For people who want to work, like me, there are jobs.
Which Walmart pays you to avoid costumers?
Wal-Mart is the training ground for customer care avoidance. Once they get that down to a science they are ready for the big time. That’s when they join the pro’s at Lowe’s. Lowe’s employees know how to make a customer feel downright invisible!!!!
I tried spending $200 bucks at a Walmart electronics department before Xmas, but couldn’t find a soul to give it to. I finally left and went to Best Buy.
That ‘s pretty bad, Baller! Sounds like the electronics employee(s) at that Wal-Mart are ready for Lowe’s, especially the West Columbia store. Did you think to look for them at Lowe’s? Never mind, if they’re that skilled, you wouldn’t have found them anyway. :-D
That’s why unions want to organize Wallyworld, so that avoiding customers IS in the contract, as is a quota of shrinkage out the back door for the members.
You think the only place to work in SC is Walmart? You must not leave the house or even attempt to work.
Cannot stand the LIAR Haley! The Dumbacraps are no better and have NO room to critical! They ALL suck!
Why do conservative white men suck at puns? And humor in general?
same reason liberal black men fail at being a father?not important to them?
See what I mean?^^^
I am through with her.
SC has a Democratic Party?
Since when?
SC… screwing itself over since the 17th century.