Saturday, February 07, 2009
S.C. FINE: $63 MILLION AND COUNTING
*http://206.74.165.240/news/2007/jun/06/s_c_fine_m_counting/
Check out Frustrated SC DSS Director Explains $63 Million Penalties.
Dr. Hayes' excuses are pitiful. It is true that she inherited this mess from her (in our opinion) incompetent and overpaid predecessor. However, it is also true that she could have either traveled or made a telephone call to Alabama or Mississippi, or any number of states, and asked ”how did you solve your problem and can you give us the phone number for the guys that created your system?”
Note that we previously wrote about Dr. Hayes’ pending appointment on this Blog on Friday, February 23, 2007. Additionally, note that we posted S.C. FINE: $55 MILLION AND COUNTING on June 6, 2007. Granted, few people read this Blog and even fewer post to it. Still, if we were aware of this problem, our State Legislators should have been aware of the problem also--especially, given the number of published articles on the subject such as “S.C. fine: $55M and counting.”*
Incidentally, it is our understanding that the incompetence of Dr. Hayes' predecessor was rewarded by being appointed to another high-paying State job. Therefore, DSS's former problem may now be the problem of the South Carolina Department of Education.
Dr. Hayes' excuses are pitiful. It is true that she inherited this mess from her (in our opinion) incompetent and overpaid predecessor. However, it is also true that she could have either traveled or made a telephone call to Alabama or Mississippi, or any number of states, and asked ”how did you solve your problem and can you give us the phone number for the guys that created your system?”
Note that we previously wrote about Dr. Hayes’ pending appointment on this Blog on Friday, February 23, 2007. Additionally, note that we posted S.C. FINE: $55 MILLION AND COUNTING on June 6, 2007. Granted, few people read this Blog and even fewer post to it. Still, if we were aware of this problem, our State Legislators should have been aware of the problem also--especially, given the number of published articles on the subject such as “S.C. fine: $55M and counting.”*
Incidentally, it is our understanding that the incompetence of Dr. Hayes' predecessor was rewarded by being appointed to another high-paying State job. Therefore, DSS's former problem may now be the problem of the South Carolina Department of Education.
Why we are thinking about it, we are reminded that State Senator Tom Davis thinks that counsel appointed to represent indigents should work without compensation. Maybe all attorneys working for the State Department of Social Services should work for free to make up for what they cost the State of South Carolina. That would be "$63 Million and counting."
*http://206.74.165.240/news/2007/jun/06/s_c_fine_m_counting/
Labels: Child Support Collection, Federal Fines, Institutional Mismanagement, Problems at DSS
