So we're going to provide a quick crash course on our fine governor.
The Paris Air Show trip, complete with frilly cocktails, five-star hotels, fancy soirees, VIP treatment at the airport and room service, cost taxpayers at least $127,000, maybe more, according to a report in Sunday's Post and Courier.
As Haley was wining and dining overseas, legislators were overriding her extensive — and flat-out stupid — vetoes, which included nasty funding slashes to higher education, ETV and health care.
They were lambasting her moves as selfish, disrespectful and dishonest.
But in typical Haley form, she played her political mantras to the public: Cut budgets! Save dollars! Taxpayers win!
It turns out we know now why she was slashing dollars. Parisian cocktails are expensive, and five-star hotels aren't cheap.
It is hard to feign shock with this trip, though.
The trip came from a governor who ousted Darla Moore, USC's most generous donor, off the board of trustees without even discussing the move with Moore first.
Moore, whose net worth could probably buy all of France, wasn't happy. In the ultimate high-road revenge, she gave $5 million to USC for the McNair aerospace center, which could revolutionize the state's economy and create all sorts of jobs.
It seems pretty simple to us, governor.
You didn't need the $127,000 trip to create jobs.
Just disrespect our state's savviest businesswoman about once a month, and we'll all be just fine.