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Feb
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2012
My folks in Pierre tell me Governor Daugaard is working hard to push Senate Bill 48 through the House. The bill adds a bunch of money to current state spending authority, the largest chunk of which is $10 million for the Governor’s Office of Economic Development. The Governor wants that money for his South Dakota Workforce Initiative, which will pay Wisconsin-based Manpower Inc. to try to recruit 1,000 new workers to South Dakota.
Hmm… transferring millions of dollars to an out-of-state private company… are you telling me we really don’t have anyone in-house who could do this work for us? Are you telling me some outfit in Wisconsin can sell South Dakota to workers better than South Dakotans?
Selling this bill hasn’t been hard so far. The only nay so far came from Senator Jim Hundstad, who is now sidelined with triple bypass surgery.
The House deferred SB 48 yesterday; it could come back up any moment. Just curious: does this new spending for a new program require a two-thirds vote, or does that criterion only apply to new taxes?
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Cory, I understand that it requires a two thirds.
So we spent taxpayers money to create jobs, but we don’t have the people to fill them, so now we spend taxpayers money to get people to fill them. Anybody understand how the fascist’s centrally planned economies are not the most efficient?
Ten Million paid out to teachers or to health care workers in the medicaid field would be more appropriate then hiring an out-of-stater. Want more workers with technical skills—pay better wages.
Exactly, Charlie: recruiting more non-union earth haters to South Dakota solidifies GOP control in an already failed red state.
There you go Charlie, the good old free market system. Unfortunately the big business special interests want to run high-profit government subsidized international cartels. Can anybody spell NWO, or should I say can you smell NWO. Tie SB48 to HB1248 and that is what you have…a very stinky situation. No wonder they are hoghousing HB1248 so often.
I guess I am confused…the bill says “Governor’s Office of Economic Development Operating Expenses, General Funds, delete “$829,298″ and insert “$5,829,298″” Where does the $10 million figure come from (I am missing it some how).
As far as hiring a Wisconsin based company…it seems to be quite a large company that knows what it is doing, and even has an office in Sioux Falls which is operated by South Dakotans and employs South Dakotans (http://us.manpower.com/us/en/office?hcmid=FSOS-SD002). It makes sense to hire a company that has offices across the country, and world wide as well. Who knows, maybe our state will be infused with new cultures and world-views? I am trying ot track down a quote to see how much this will cost…but everyone is at lunch in Wisconsin…
what we have to remember is that Daugaard only cares about big business and how he can attract cheap workers for his business buddies.
He doesn’t care about education-just big business
“Who knows, maybe our state will be infused with new cultures and world-views?”
Yes Joseph, it is called “The New World Order”. Some of us are concerned that it is the Beast of Revelation. Take the mark or you can’t buy or sell anything.
Troll,
What values/virtues/world-view do you propose that we foist upon the masses? If the current culture does not hold your proposed worldview….does that mean that your world view would be new (at least to them)? Would you want to apply your world view to the whole world, or just locally? Would it be a world view of order or chaos? May I say you have a new world order stance? (sorry, I could not resist)
“What values/virtues/world-view do you propose that we foist upon the masses?”
None, so please return the favor. I can’t understand why a political movement would bark diversity and then propose a one-size-fits-all government.
Trolling for white people in the Midwest with a regressive tax system sustains tourism and real estate sales in the chemical toilet: DD’s earmark is hardly a new development.
“None, so please return the favor.”
If you care not to foist any ideas onto the masses, then why did you ever run for government? I imagine you would have attempted to implement your worldview via legislation, don’t you agree? And I imagine that legislated world view would have applied to more people than just yourself?
Joseph, I ran to prevent the masses from having crap foisted on them. And the crap is coming from the “New Age Theocrats” who are in the process of created “The New World Order”. Those includes the governor’s WINS program that has been hidden in this 2012 appropriations bill. Remember 2012, when we had to cut everything 10%. There is also $20 million in section 28 of this bill to be transfered to the 2013 Medicaid program that ended up $75 million under budget in 2011.
HB48 may indeed violate South Dakota’s constitution.
@rcjMontgomery: SB 48 passes with 48 votes.
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Joseph: Brad Dilges, Daugaard’s budget man, said that the GOED gets $10 million more. $5M is in the line you looked at, under General Funds. $5M is in the next line, under Other Funds.
Steve: HB 1248? That one hasn’t been amended yet. Did you mean a different bill from the hoghouse list?
Cory, HB1234, not HB1248. Sorry.
Thank you! That’s what I thought.
But let’s be clear: the amendments of HB 1234 aren’t “hoghouses” in the truest sense. A hoghouse usually changes the full content and often the intent of the bill. The intent of HB 1234 remains the same. All four of Governor Daugaard’s basic tenets—imposing standardized statewide teacher evaluations, pushing math and science above other fields, giving merit pay, and ending continuing contract—remain the core policies of the bill. The “hoghousing” happening here is more about bookkeeping: rather than offering specific amendments to change the bill line by line, the legislators find it easier to simply write a new version with most of the old stuff intact and propose it anew.
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