UPDATE: Just a couple hours after this post was originally published, the SCGOP deleted their blog post AND video joking about South Carolina unemployment, blaming the President of the United States for the state's record unemployment numbers, inconveniently released just 1 day after the SCGOP's latest foray into political humor.
It looks like we're not the only ones who realize that South Carolina is suffering from a lack of leadership on the issues that really matter. Denying SC-ers unemployment benefits and property tax cuts on second homes, all while only paying lip-service to the real issues--its all one big joke to the SCGOP.
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For a couple weeks now, the SC Republican Party has had been taking cheap political shots at Barack Obama, asking him, personally, "Where's [sic] the jobs?" Well, we thought maybe they knew something we didn't there for a while there, but today's unemployment numbers show otherwise.
In November, South Carolina's unemployment rate rose for the fourth month in a row, reaching a new record high of 12.3%, trailing only Michigan and Rhode Island to give SC the third-highest unemployment in the United States. So, Bobby Harrell, Glenn McConnell, the rest of the State House leadership, and the SCGOP: 'Where are those jobs?'
Unemployment rose for the fourth straight month, adding .3 of a percentage point from the revised October rate of 12 percent.
The
state's rate was tied for third-highest in the nation, trailing only
Michigan's 14.7 percent and Rhode Island's 12.7 percent. South
Carolina's rate tied with Nevada and California.
The number of
unemployed passed an all-time high, rising by 5,896 last month to
266,330, according to preliminary calculations.
