They're either parasites or piranhas, just as long as the cost can be shifted to others

FITSNews is busy this weekend, having it both ways.

On the one hand, they- and I use "they" advisedly- are all worked up that SC has slow Internet access speeds.

On the other hand, they are sucking up to the Milliken heirs because Dad died in time for them to make out like bandits on the estate tax rates.

Never mind that the grudging acceptance of change is why SC has things like crappy Internet service. States- and statesmen- who have their head other than in their- well, if you want progress, you have to make it happen by investing in it. FITS constantly argues the secret to growth and improvement is to eliminate public spending and leave it to the good will of the private sector to fix the rest.

It's an instructive paradigm, when you look at the career of the richest man in the state. He was interested in low taxes, paying the state GOP's debts when they failed their own principles of thrift and recrimination, making money for his company, emancipating blacks when the opposite became bad for business, and planting trees. With all its technology and patents, where was Milliken & Co. advancing the state's infrastructure?

Nada. Milliken and FITSNews believe it will happen by magical thinking. Kinda like FITSNews's hissy fit that the governor-elect hasn't installed him as boy concubine/policy advisor.

Milliken clung, to the end of his life, to protectionism- that the duty of the government whose party he paid to send reps to DC to deny the power of owed him a big wall saving him from having to compete with the rest of the world.

And as for FITSNews, well, they're just pilot fish.