I've never compiled an All-Time, Top Five List of Dumbest Unfunded Mandates Ever, but if I did, Robert Ford's "idea" (I'm using the word loosely, hence the quote marks) to require local gummints to take off on Confederate Memorial Day would certainly make the list. There's nothing new about it, of course — he's pushed this one before — but hey, a classic is a classic.
I find myself wondering whether Sen. Ford and Glenn McConnell are going to go back on the TV circuit with their Separate Heritages act — you know, McConnell in full Confederate dress-up; Ford in dashiki talking Black Liberation — or maybe they already have done that again in this cause, and (mercifully) I missed it.
In case you know not whereof I speak, the two Charlestonians, in a determined effort to show us all that there IS something odd in the water down there, went about in costume a few years back emphasizing that black and white South Carolinians should be encouraged in celebrating their very separate heritages — as though we have naught in common. Brilliant.
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No one is taking your monthly phony Confederacy issue bait.
How dumb can an unfunded mandate get? Try a night on the town by a couple of unemployed homosexuals. Now that’s an unfunded man date.
You mean a couple of unemployed homosexuals in South Carolina, where the state can’t afford to pay unemployment benefits…
I was tempted to try to work in Robert Ford’s other big idea — criminalizing droopy pants — but I thought I’d better stop while I was ahead. Or only moderately behind.
How dumb can an unfunded mandate get. Maybe, expanding the S-CHIPS program by raising taxes on an industry that you are in the process of destroying.
Good to see you again, Richard.
“gummints”
Classy. Hope you keep your hood clean, brother.