Jun 29 2008
Competitive Community Grants Committee Throws Away $10 Million
While the economic is on a down turn and unemployment is up, South Carolina families are making their sacrifices to cut back on unnecessary expenses to make room for rising costs of living. If the government truly was of the people, for the people and by the people, we’d see the same kind of belt tightening in Columbia. Sadly, Americans threw away their responsibility a long time ago and government runs amok.
The Competitive Community Grants Committee doled out $10 million on Friday all over the state to what are more or less legislators’ pet projects. The Governor has been fighting this process with the legislature for several years but like everyone else the same Republican legislature that continuously lies about being conservative won’t give up their greedy lust for taxpayer pork funded waste in their own districts so they can buy their reelections every two years. While voters did manage to dump some of the swine in Columbia, plenty of them were given a mandate to continue their waste and abuse for at least another two years.
The Post and Courier has a list of what the allocated funds will be spent on in the greater Charleston area. A few things on that list are legitimate infrastructure spending, but most of it is unbridled waste.
ShareCHARLESTON
–$100,000 for the Maritime Heritage Foundation
–$85,000 for Middleton Place projects
–$75,000 for Drayton Hall improvements
–$65,000 for Trident Outreach Ministries Inc.
–$40,000 for the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition
–$20,000 for the Charleston Academy of Music
–$15,000 for the National Council of Jewish Women
–$10,508 for School’s Out!
–$5,000 for the Powder Magazine living history program
DORCHESTER COUNTY
–$18,000 for an Upper Dorchester County Historical Society restoration project
GOOSE CREEK
–$20,000 for a hiking and biking trail at the municipal center
JOHNS ISLAND
–$42,000 for Rural Mission Inc.
MONCKS CORNER
–$40,000 for a new sports complex
MOUNT PLEASANT
–$100,000 for Tri-County Project Care Inc.
NORTH CHARLESTON
–$50,000 for Closing the Gap in Health Care Inc.
–$50,000 for Hospice of Charleston
RAVENEL
–$20,000 for a town sewer line and pump station
ST. GEORGE
–$30,000 for upgrades to the Eastport Industrial Park pump station
–$30,000 for Keeper of the Wild
SUMMERVILLE
–$30,000 for Eagle Harbor Children’s Home
–$25,000 for Pine Ridge Fire Department
–$2,975 for the Veterans Affairs office
WALTERBORO
–$50,000 for the Great Swamp Sanctuary Discovery Center
–$38,000 for Colleton Improvement Collaborative.
