Slopping the Pigs
As many state and local officials clamor for their share of the billions of dollars in federal aid in the stimulus bill under consideration in Washington, South Carolina’s Republican governor is sounding a note of dissent about federal efforts to help the economy.
“A problem that was created by building up of too much debt will not be solved with yet more debt,” Gov. Mark Sanford said Sunday, making a reference to the federal deficit spending that will likely finance the federal stimulus package.
“We’re moving precipitously close to what I would call a savior-based economy,” Sanford also said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union.
Damn, that’s a good line.
How come we here in Massachusetts think we’re so smart when we elect the likes of John Kerry and Ted Kennedy—when those s**t-kickers in South Carolina elect someone who sees things exactly as they are?
The South Carolina Republican said such an economy is “what you see in Russia or Venezuela or Zimbabwe or places like that where it matters not how good your product is to the consumer but what your political connection is to those in power.”
UPDATE
Allahpundit has the video.
Alas, he claims the “savior” comment was not a dig at President Obama. Like a Democrat, I’ll believe what I want to believe.
Carol said,
February 9, 2009 @ 1:10 pm
Of course it was, but he has to retain plausible deniability in front of the Baptists. But the following paragraph does make it more generic.
You know your later post about how nationalized health care can only be rationed by time or by money and if you take away money, you just leave time? Well that’s not quite true. There’s absolutely no reason to think that health care won’t also be rationed on a connections-to-the-local-savior basis too. After all, doesn’t Congress have the best health care plan in the country? If you think those dirt-bags won’t restrict health care based on whatever excuses they care to make up, think again.