Sanford Offers Unemployed South Carolina Resident ‘Prayers’ Instead Of Stimulus Funds

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Following the lead of a number of his fellow Republican governors, Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) has given some indication that he will not accept some of the money slated for South Carolina in the $787 billion economic recovery bill President Obama signed into law last week. “At times it sounds like the Soviet grain quotas of Stalin’s time,” Sanford said yesterday on Fox News.

On C-SPAN’s Washington Journal this morning, Sanford received a call from a Charleston resident who said he lost his job because he has been taking care of mother and sister, both of whom have serious illnesses. The caller told Sanford he is “wrong” to decline the money. “A lot of people in South Carolina are hurting. And if this money can come and help us out we need it.” In response, Sanford could offer him only his prayers:

CALLER: I hope you all are not playing politics with this. People in South Carolina are hurting. You know how unemployment rates are high right now and going up higher. We are running out of money in the unemployment bank — we need money for that, the people that need help. And I’m one of them, I can’t get no help. <…>

SANFORD: Well I’d say hello to Charleston because its home and I’d say hello to this fellow this morning and say that my prayers are going to be with him and his family because it sounds like he is in an awfully tough spot.
video clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pN4irw8K7A

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/23/sanford-prayers/

I have a prayer for him............... MEH!!
While people in this state do vote against their interests, they also get fed up very fast. Look at Fort Sumter.

[rucky]

1. See, he really does care.

Just not enough to help.

[Raven]

2. There is the Poster Boy for the Heartless Republican Party...

can you believe this shit???? Replay this interview over and over.

[SPedigrees]

3. Federal Family Leave Law

Is the caller aware of its existence, I wonder. It might have saved his job.

[jpak]

4. GOP the Incredible Shrinking Party

There I said it.

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. Hope so!

[rvablue]

5. PRAYERS: It's what's for dinner! (In SC, anyway....) n/t

[DemoTex]

6. In the words of novelist Harry Crews in "The Gospel Singer" ..

"Pray in one hand and shit in the other, and see which hand fills up first."

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

7. Shit in one hand

and pray to have the other filled.

See which one gets full first.

What an ambulatory turd this thing Sanford is. "Prayers" to your nonexistent skydaddy buy no groceries, asshole. Gads, I hate Repukes.

[Historic NY]

8. Wait until he starts passing out wish sandwiches.

[Vinca]

9. Who would Jesus starve? nt

[KamaAina]

10. Maybe there's a faith-based grocery store in Charleston

that accepts prayers. Except in the 10-items-or-less express lane, of course. :P

[mitchum]

12. Talk is cheap...and even cheaper when one is talking to an imaginary being

May Sanford soon be with his precious lord