Can somebody help me understand this? How does raising the debt ceiling not raise our debt?

You may have heard this analogy before. You go home and see that your septic tank is backed up and sewage is filling up your house. You have 2 options: a) raise your ceiling to hold more sewage or b) stop the flow of sewage. Unfortunately, the rinocrat majority in congress keeps choosing option a.

It was an honor to attend the Unveiling of the new “Veterans Memorial Highway” signs at the American Legion recently. Picture here with me L-R is Councilman Tom Allen, Pendleton Mayer Frank Crenshaw, Commander Fran Allison, Chaplain Jimmy Jackson and Kevin.

After your rinocrat government dumped nearly a billion dollars of debt on your grandchildren last year, at least one agency in SC wants to get OUT of debt. Great news from dew:

DEW Makes Second Unemployment Trust Fund Loan Repayment Well in Advance of Due Date

COLUMBIA—The SC Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW) today announced it made a voluntary payment of $75 million to the federal government for the agency’s unemployment trust fund loan.

This marks the second voluntary payment the state has made in 2013 bringing the total to $219 million this year. “Today we are proud to announce we are paying an additional $75 million towards the nearly $1 billion federal unemployment loan,” said Gov. Nikki Haley. This will save the taxpayers and businesses of this state $1 million in interest over the next two years, putting us on a path of being paid off by 2015 – a real reason to celebrate!”

“For the past three years, South Carolina has made early, voluntary payments on the trust fund loan,” said DEW Executive Director Cheryl M. Stanton. “In fact, we are paying $25 million more than we had originally projected, reducing our final payment in 2015 and further saving the state interests cost. Because of our good track record in repaying the loan, in 2012 South Carolina was the only state that received a waiver to avoid the higher federal unemployment tax rates. We appreciate the work of the state’s business community in improving South Carolina’s economy to make this early loan payment possible.”

One of the criteria for states that owe money to the federal government (including South Carolina) to avoid increased federal unemployment taxes for businesses in 2013 is to make a loan payment by November 10, 2013. DEW made a $144 million payment in May. The agency anticipates receiving official approval to avoid the increased taxes from the US Department of Labor (DOL) in early November. South Carolina avoided higher federal taxes in 2011 and 2012.

To date, South Carolina has repaid more than $520 million of the $977 million borrowed from the federal government. After this month’s loan repayment of $75 million, the outstanding balance will be approximately $455 million. The state is scheduled to repay the entire loan amount by the end of 2015.

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If you’ve received an e-mail from Experian asking you to renew your coverage, don’t do it. As we near the anniversary of the greatest ID theft in SC’s history, the Budget and Control Board is currently renewing bids for continuing ID monitoring that your tax dollars have been budgeted for. These negotiations should be final by the end of September, 2013. It is too early to know exactly what will be covered by the new contract but it is safe to say the contract will provide equal if not greater coverage than the previous one with Experian. This service will have expanded services beyond the current coverage offered by Experian. You may want additional services, however, I would suggest you wait until this contract is finalized before purchasing anything.

You may recall, I questioned this $12 million fast track to purchase coverage. We gave a company a database with millions of potential customers to market services to. Why didn’t they pay us was my question. Unfortunately, I was right. Stay tuned.

I have a lot of constituents that send me e-mails with their thoughts on a variety of subjects. Here’s some interesting thoughts:

When Putin makes more sense than our own government does, you know we’re in trouble. And while the youth of today may not remember the USSR of old, nor grown up in that world, those of us in our 30s, 40s, 50s and beyond did recall the threat of the corrupt and control-crazy Russian Government pillage of the Russian people.

Syria is not witnessing a battle for democracy, but an armed conflict between government and opposition in a multireligious country. There are few champions of democracy in Syria. But there are more than enough Qaeda fighters and extremists of all stripes battling the government. The United States State Department has designated Al Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, fighting with the opposition, as terrorist organizations. This internal conflict, fueled by foreign weapons supplied to the opposition, is one of the bloodiest in the world.

Yeah, and who’s been supplying those weapons? Might the CIA be involved in that? I suspect the answer is “Yes”, and that part of the reason that Benghazi is still being covered up a year after the disaster there has to do with exactly what we were providing to whom and what got loose.
No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces, to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists. Exactly my point.

That one guy is bad doesn’t mean the other guy is good. Sometimes all the people involved are jackasses — and when your enemies are busy doing each other harm the best course of action is to stand back and let them have at it without assistance or interference.

But the true outrage is not just found here, in the words of President Putin. It is found in the violence done every single day to Americans right here, at home, by our own governments. The outrageous brutality is a daily feature these days — and yet nobody goes to jail for it.

Nor is the brutality limited to physical force. Jefferson County Alabama residents were brutalized by an outrageously-overzealous government that crammed down their throats an admitted badly-needed sewer upgrade. Then the banksters, protected by that very same government, stepped in and in concert with some crooked municipal officials financially shanked the residents out of billions of dollars. When caught, some of the crooked municipal officials went to prison but the financial gang-rape of citizens continues to this day with sewer bills that will never return to their former levels. The banksters involved were not prosecuted nor did anyone from that side of the desk face any sort of punishment. Remember Eric Holder said that he “….found no wrong doing or crimes to prosecute….”

Our state and local governments have willingly participated in the financial beatdown of the citizens through the destruction of real estate land title systems — a protection that pre-dates the Republic. These were brutalized by those very same banksters who have been written about since THEIR OWN TESTIMONY IN 2007.
Has anyone gone to jail? Nope. Yet the financial theft is not only directed at your house it’s also directed at your pension fund and personal, daily life in that 80% of your purchasing power has been destroyed through fraudulent credit emission since 1980! The FED calls it Quantitative Easing – but it is COUNTERFEITING by any name. Wake up America. While you still can.