Clyburn: SC will get all its stimulus money
Published: April 6, 2009
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn vows to make sure South Carolina gets all the federal stimulus money it is due.
Clyburn said at The Citadel Monday he’s working to make sure not a single dime goes elsewhere.
Gov. Mark Sanford last week met a deadline telling the federal government the state intends to apply for money. But Clyburn says the state now faces a June 17th deadline for giving Washington its specific plans for the money.
Sanford controls over $700 million and wants to use the money to pay down state debt. The stimulus bill calls for the money to be used for education and public safety.
Clyburn says simply Sanford is against public education and will do anything he possibly can to destroy it.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.
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Sometimes when Republicans live with abundance, their eyes are blinded to tent cities, foodstamp lines, and babies crying from lack of food due to parent’s unemployment. Sometimes they don’t always understand having to decide who will eat tonight or which medicine that keeps me alive will I choose today at the risk of dying without the other.
Sometimes they don’t understnd the disabled child who only needs a little more help to become a fruitful citizen, or the shame on the face of a man who can o longer take care of his children. Maybe this is why we were neglected for 8 years and had to have such a large stimulus package to make up for that neglect. Just - Maybe.
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