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And while both Clemson and the University of South Carolina have complained about budget cuts in recent years, in reality both schools have seen their total government funding increase dramatically. Including its wasteful PSA programs, Clemson’s budget has increased from $526 million in FY 2004-05 to $830.5 million this year.? USC’s budget has increased from $614 million to $918 million over the same time period.
“Have (private corporations) go and start picking up where we need to with libraries,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],” she said. “This is what we need in our libraries. We need your help. And they would step up.”
Seriously,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], people … based on what we’ve seen over the course of this campaign, the Palmetto state’s status as a third-world banana republic is secure no matter who wins this race.
Go ahead … ask them.
Wonderful … because if there’s one thing this state needs it’s another government commission (not).

It’s painfully obvious that neither candidate is serious about fixing anything … just getting elected.
Also, the last time we checked it wasn’t a shortage of books in public school libraries that was South Carolina’s problem … it’s the shortage of children in our public schools who can read.
FITSNews
Really?
S.C. Rep. Nikki Haley and State Senator Vincent Sheheen participated in the second of three scheduled gubernatorial debates on Monday night in Columbia, S.C. – an hour-long affair that was short on fireworks and even shorter on solutions.
Pic: via Daylife
Of course all S.C. taxpayers have received for this abnormally large investment are schools that are headed in the wrong direction.
Watching this debate was like watching the movie Dumb and Dumber … except all of the jokes are on us (and more specifically on our wallets).
According to the latest data available from the National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO), the Palmetto state currently spends 18.3 percent of its budget on higher education.? By comparison, the average state spends only 10.1 percent of its budget on higher ed.
Meanwhile, on the issue of K-12 education, Haley – who has abandoned the real reforms she supported in the past – came up with the whimsical notion that the funding of public school libraries should be farmed out to the private sector as a way to save taxpayers’ money.
Sheheen, for example, spoke about the state’s bloated college and university system like it was on the verge of collapse.
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Of course if you didn’t get enough of this goat show, Haley and Sheheen will square off again Tuesday night in Florence, S.C. for their third and final debate.
Once again, though, Haley and Sheheen answered questions as if the public school cupboard was bare – which ignores the fact that South Carolina taxpayers are shelling out record amounts of K-12 funding as part of the state’s largest budget ever.
Regarding our state’s unfunded retirement liabilities,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the brain drain continued. Sheheen admitted he didn’t understand the issue (no surprise there) but promised to appoint a “blue ribbon panel.”
Yeah … that’s not a word.
Frankly, Haley’s harebrained idea reminds us of former Lt. Gov. Bob Peeler’s ridiculous “Tax Me More” proposal from 2002, which sought to fill so-called budget gaps by inviting taxpayers to voluntarily pay more money? in taxes than they owed.
“South Carolina has decentivized higher education, and not just in the past two years,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],” Sheheen said. “We need to have a governor who is committed to higher education.”
Decentivized?
Sheheen is an intellectually-incurious bumpkin who looks and sounds dumber every time we see him. Meanwhile,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Haley is an intellectually-incurious opportunist who merely regurgitates whatever talking points are handed to her by Mark Sanford’s Beltway-based consultant.
Bottom line?
In fact according to a new report released two weeks ago by the Board’s Office of Research and Statistics, public schools received a total of $8.8 billion dollars in 2009 � a $400 million increase in funding from the previous year. That works out to a record $12,268 per pupil � and that figure doesn’t even include cash that’s stored away in reserve accounts.
Oh, and ask any parent paying these schools’ outrageous tuition hikes about them being “decentivized.”
Yeah …
Monday’s debate covered several important issues – the state’s gaping retirement liability, its increasingly costly higher ed system, and a botched 2006 tax swap, to name just a few -? but neither candidate offered anything resembling comprehensive solutions. In fact, both offered answers that demonstrated their glaring ignorance of the issues at hand.
ADDITIONAL COVERAGE
Haley, Sheheen battle over how to fix government (The State)
Haley, Sheheen share priorities, but spar over fixes (The Charleston Post and Courier)
Haley, Sheheen Face-Off (The Gamecock)