Another bit of tarnish is gathering on Governor Haley's halo:
Regulators around the globe on Thursday ordered the grounding of Boeing 787s until they could determine what caused a new type of battery to fail on two planes in recent days, resulting in an emergency landing Wednesday and a fire last week.
She's been madly extrapolating Boeing's Dreamliner plant in North Charleston as proof South Carolina's is a world-beating production center. Just last night, in the State of the State address, she hyperventilated:
South Carolina is truly becoming the “It” state when it comes to economic development and job creation – not just in the United States, but worldwide....South Carolina has announced our self as the new superstar of American manufacturing.We build things.We build planes.We build cars.We build tires.We build more ATVs than anywhere else in the world.
She continued plumping for the conservative economic theory that states cannot rest in their race to the bottom:
Other states have seen the successes we’ve had in South Carolina and are nipping at our heels. Look around the nation and see all the governors, the legislators, the states that are proposing slashing or even eliminating their income taxes. We have to keep up.Second, we need to take a serious look at our regulatory environment.If government is costing a business time, then government is costing that business money.And while the legislature convenes annually to look at new legislation and regulations, I know of no joint legislative and executive effort that comes together to look at removing regulations that stymie the private sector and hold our economy back.
The Governor also said she things the state's infrastructure is in a disgraceful state of decay. She won't support additional revenue to fix it to serve the massive influx of companies that build things she sees coming.
She hailed the state's labor force. She won't do anything to improve health care except talk about it.
She's for improving education by having a statewide conversation about improving education.
All in all, she concluded, under her leadership, her Potemkin village is even brighter and shinier than it was last year. It's another great day in South Carolina.
And 160 years ago, a governor following Haley's strategy would have touted the following:
ReplyDelete"South Carolina is the new superstar of American agriculture:
"We pick more cotton;
"We pick more tobacco;
"We pick more rice;
"We have more slaves per capita than any other state in the nation.
"But if we want to keep our position we need to do the following: give slave owners the right to treat their chattel however they deem fit, lean on northern states to enforce Fugitive Slave Laws, and give serious consideration to reopening the Atlantic slave trade.
"Finally, if government is forcing unscrupulous plantation owners to treat their property with even the slightest dignity, then government is costing those plantation owners money."