The Medicaid waiver is the selling out of our $4.6 billion Medicaid program to private, out-of-state HMOs.

Whether the price of the cessation program is $130 billion or $10 billion or 99 cents, it is still a fatally flawed program.

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.

It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public

How can we reduce these programs and add $1 billion back into the dairy program?

It just makes sense. There's a massive program that has come to an end, and the state is doing the logical reduction in manpower.