Stimulus and What's Next, a letter sent to SC Education Secretary Arne Duncan

Gov. Sanford ^ | 6/8/09 | Gov. Mark Sanford

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Dear Secretary Duncan,

By order of the South Carolina Supreme Court, I am submitting the attached application for South Carolina's portion of the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund. In doing so, however, I'd offer a few observations.

First, it's important to state one last time for the record what a monumentally terrible idea I believe the entire so-called stimulus act is, and why in particular utilizing this money as our General Assembly has done is ultimately going to cause more harm than good.

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Sanford's letter to Ed. Sec. was forwarded to supporters with the following comments ...

While the stimulus battle may by and large be over, I believe these disastrous consequences - caused by using debt to solve problems created by too much debt - will soon come to bear in ways that affect each one of us today, and our children and grandchildren in the future. Still, there very much remains an opportunity to make your voice heard on this larger notion of fiscal responsibility and not spending money we don't have as a state, or for that matter as a nation.

It's vital we continue to speak up because the direction I believe Washington D.C. is now taking us is decidedly less toward freedom and prosperity, and more toward dependence upon a smothering, invasive government. This trend away from liberty grates against the tried and true principles of our Founders, and indeed it calls those of us committed to common sense conservative ideas to work that much harder in defending them. Thomas Paine's words ring true today: 'those who expect to reap the benefits of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it.'