South Carolina’s government sector is not only disproportionately larger than government sectors other states, but it pays its employees salaries that are higher than other workers, too.
Prior to its most recent expansion, government in South Carolina represented 40.5% of the state’s economy (with state government representing [...]
JOB CREATION HAPPENS IN PRIVATE, NOT PUBLIC SECTOR
All the stimulus plans designed to “create jobs” ignore an important point: most jobs are actually created by entrepreneurs who start new businesses. The best way to grow our economy is to create a suitable climate for current and future [...]
SECTOR REPRESENTS LARGEST INDUSTRY CLUSTER IN STATE
One of South Carolina’s oldest job sectors is also one of its most important, according to a report released on Wednesday by the South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance (SCMA).
The SCMA study found that the manufacturing industry still has a major impact on [...]
Barack Obama is rooting for “the audacity of hope,” but it’s looking increasingly as if the American economy is plagued by his predecessor’s oft-regurgitated pablum … err, problem, the “soft bigotry of low expectations.”
Either way, the bottom line is that America isn’t opening its wallets [...]
A study scheduled to be released Wednesday by the S.C. Manufacturers’ Alliance will highlight the huge role the manufacturing industry continues to play in the state economy – despite recent job losses.
Specifically, the study will show a total economic impact on the state of nearly [...]
That is nearly 1 in 4 eligible workers in the state. And the months ahead look grim to John [...]
The fact that America is still talking about the “White House Crashers” who allegedly gained unauthorized access into President Barack Obama’s first-ever state dinner last month is ridiculous.
Seriously, people … the economy is in the tank, a socialized medicine proposal is lurching toward and [...]
Ronald Reagan famously commented that he didn't leave the Democratic Party, it left him. Now the Republicans have returned the favor.
Tacking further right by the week, the 4th district's congressman says if the economy gets better the wetbacks will be back and we need to stop that right now. [...] 
She has been dubbed a one woman stimulus package. I think she is a stimulus in quite a few ways, but if she can boost the economy, too, so much the better.
Let's see if anyone in the SC conservative blogdom will call this out as wrong:
S.C. Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom wants to reform how the federal government counts “stimulus” jobs, arguing that taxpayers deserve “accurate job counts and honest assessments of the stimulus’ impact on our economy.”
Last month, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama claimed that 8,100 jobs had been [...]
Two weeks after angering state’s political establishment by opposing an incentive package for airplane manufacturer Boeing, the S.C. Policy Council unveiled a new report detailing how “unleashing capitalism” – not additional government – is the key to turning around South Carolina’s moribund economy.
“Sometimes the truth cannot [...]
