During the Sanford administration, economic development has come to a virtual standstill, public jobs have been sold to big, out-of-state corporations, and now one of every 14 South Carolinians is jobless.
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Related Mark Sanford is playing political games while South Carolinians suffer. The governor panders to poli... JOE ERWIN Not by any effort of his own, it looks like Mark Sanford finally has a good economic development tea... JOE ERWIN Sanford's boasting over 'the state of the economy' neglects the facts that South Carolina has the se... LACHLAN MCINTOSH For Lovelace to beat Sanford on June 13, we have to have a strong grassroots campaign. And political... ROD SHEALY The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American commu... JOHN BALDACCI That one has kind of come to a standstill. DAVID PRENTICE It's a virtual economic development competition here. JOE PANETTA The position of First Lady has no rules, just precedent, so its evolution has been at a virtual stan... PAULA POUNDSTONE One of the big concerns here in Clarion is economic development, RICK SANTORUM The development and use of the F-14 Tomcat served a vitally important role in rebuilding our nationa... DUKE BLACKWOOD These quasi-state corporations are in fact driven by private interests while taking advantage of the... ANDREI ILLARIONOV The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the U.S. financial sy... PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS A call is developing to ban this out-of-control game of virtual economic extortion. BOB ORR Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of prog... P. J. O'ROURKE Life has come to a standstill. AKBAR DIN When a city goes out and attracts a new factory that will have 100 jobs, it makes headlines in the p... GENE WARREN It's just another source of concern as to the strength of the Connecticut economy. The state has bee... EDWARD DEAK This is a tremendous project for Orangeburg County and the state of South Carolina. This is part of ... GREGG ROBINSON We all feel state economic development policy has not had the benefit [of input] from the private se... KATHRYN WYLDE Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of it... ARUNDHATI ROY There is a lot of money that is going into the local economies all over the state. This is new wealt... BRIAN WOLDT The Board of Regents is pleased that Denny Sanford's generosity and dedication to improving South Da... HARVEY JEWETT The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shak... WALTER GROPIUS The administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations. RALPH NADER Further structural reforms will be important prerequisites to unlocking the economic growth and deve... XOLILE GUMA Nine out of every 10 large corporations and government agencies have been attacked by computer intru... KEVIN MITNICK While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of emin... SOLOMON ORTIZ We are not comfortable using the public Internet, although there has been a lot of good work with [v... RICK RUBIN The South Carolina DOC has a strong foundation to build on and plays a natural leadership role in an... HAL JOHNSON Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always ... MARC ANDREESEN This administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations. RALPH NADER This administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations RALPH NADER Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the ... ANDREW MELLON The current economic expansion of the last three to four years has been hugely geared to consumer sp... ALAN PURINTUN How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to h... TIM JOHNSON Critics were ignored during the Lee administration, and this administration has also pursued its pro... ANSTRESS FARWELL As governor, I work in hand in hand with tribal leaders on everything from disaster response to econ... MARY FALLIN You can't continue to ignore the losses our state has struggled with. The recipe that this administr... BILL BRADY One out of every eight Pennsylvanians and one in every 720 people in the United States, as well as o... DON SHERWOOD Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Wash... MIKE LOWRY This state started hemorrhaging jobs under (previous Republican governor) John Engler, and the gover... LIZ BOYD great friend to me, the people of Clarendon County and all South Carolinians. Alex never met a stran... JIM CLYBURN Once sales in the Middle East have come to a standstill, this inevitably has consequences for produc... JENS REFSLUND The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied ... DOUGLASS NORTH The Texas labor market continues to gain strength as employers are adding jobs and more people are f... DIANE RATH One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests,... ED RENDELL We've developed quite a bit in the state of South Dakota in the last year or so. South Dakota has be... RYAN HORN Where are the jobs going to come from? Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's t... WILLIAM J. CLINTON But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade... DONALD EVANS I expect to be able to use the experience that I gained to assist me to help economic development at... DARRELL OPFER The administration is committed to help every city, county and state ALPHONSO JACKSON It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings... CYNTHIA MCKINNEY Historically, you have lot of great content minds at Disney and Viacom and all the media conglomerat... ANTHONY VALENCIA When Mrs. Clinton ran for office, she promised economic growth across New York state, to bring in mo... DAVID BRENNER We have to be aware of the spoiler, we have got to come out and play our game. These teams aren't in... DAVID LEGWAND The Economic Development Council is in a prime location to take on the economic development aspect o... GARY MAIDHOF Do I agree with everything the governor does? No. But break down the things he has accomplished with... GORDON FISCHER Sanford was phenomenal. He kept us in the game and he's been doing that of late. We should have come... DEAN MCAMMOND Is the President concerned about how he looks politically coming out of this? Heck yes! The presiden... ANDREW SULLIVAN Is the President concerned about how he looks politically coming out of this? Heck yes! ... The pres... ANDREW SULLIVAN A strong public education system is just essential to business and economic growth. We've been focus... GARY MCGOFFIN A lot of people say, 'This is a waste of taxpayer money,' ... But we've allowed a lot of economic de... JEFF WARREN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. The administration was looking to move the CDBG program to the Department of Labor. I think they wer... MICHAEL MCDONALD The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful e... WILLIAM KIRBY We don't have a lot in our toolbox to begin with as far as economic development tools. This one, eve... DIANE COSTELLO One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational fore... ED RENDELL In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public... JOHN LE CARRE This is a state model with the participation of state corporations, which although they are public i... ANDREI ILLARIONOV I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Congress has no business telling courts within a state that they are prohibited from considering iss... TED DEUTCH is just seriously out of control, and this administration has not been paying attention to those pro... BRUCE BARTLETT South Carolinians would prefer we not be atop that list again, JOE FARMER California has always been successful because its high levels of public investment have gone hand-in... LENNY GOLDBERG We encourage the international community to redouble its efforts to support social and economic deve... MWAI KIBAKI Businesses go where they are welcome. One of the most welcoming features of a state is a fair legal ... TOM DONOHUE The issues are now in the hands of the state, ... The state system must be allowed to work. But the ... ELDRIN BELL virtual wish list for multinational corporations. PAUL WELLSTONE The positives are that we have a Rooney Rule. We have a league that is not in a state of denial, but... CYRUS MEHRI Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have. MOHAMED ELBARADEI This is not an issue of public forest management. It's an issue of private and state management. Thi... CHRIS WOOD Right now, Southeast Iowa Regional Economic Development Group is working well together and has lots ... DENNIS HINKLE They have litigated each other to a standstill and come to a commercial compromise, HERBERT SMITH These jobless claims figures strongly suggest that any discussion of a runaway economic recovery hav... ANTHONY CHAN These jobless claims figures strongly suggest that any discussion of a runaway economic recovery hav... ANTHONY CHAN The Sino-British relationship has now entered a new phase of sustained development, and achieved gra... HU JINTAO Sales have come to a standstill in almost all markets. JENS REFSLUND There might be some sort of virtual version of a virtual Madonna coming to interact before the real ... RON ROECKER We use our land for hunting, fishing, hiking, and to create jobs. Our outdoor economy is a billion d... RYAN ZINKE In every community where there are large groups of Hispanics or Mexican immigrants, there is almost ... RAUL YZAGUIRRE I'll never forget working to get my college, Wayne State University, to divest from the governme... KEITH ELLISON Here in Tennessee, instead of the big spending, big government, job killing agenda of the Obama Admi... MARSHA BLACKBURN One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier ma... REBECCA TRAISTER I think the building needs to be used for economic development and I don't think Smoky Mountain Deve... LARRY AMMONS Today culminates a process of nearly two years to investigate and prosecute allegations of fraud aga... JAY NIXON As we develop a regional economic-development strategy for Erie and Niagara counties, we have identi... JAMES ALLEN The big story of 2013, a very distressing year, is that Americans continue not to be able to find th... MITT ROMNEY It's interesting. But every state surrounding Iowa has mandatory boater education for youth except o... PHIL PETERSEN Riley will be leading a delegation of business economic development leaders from all over the state, JEFF EMERSON
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