pedro wrote:
i guess you are in the unfortunate position of being older than 3 then, or is there another alaska none of the rest of us know about.
Well, that makes no sense.
The state of Alaska and as the former territory of Alaska, has always received more federal tax dollars than it pays to the U.S. I assumed everyone knew that it wasn't a recent occurrence under Palin. Since you are the only one who had to point that out, I guess you are the only one who didn't assume that Alaska has always been a welfare state.
My point was that if Palin is planning a presidential run, she cannot promote herself as a fiscal conservative when she gave money to every Alaska citizen instead of using the money to pay for running Alaska. All other U.S. taxpayers have to pay to keep Alaska afloat. Alaska has Uncle Sam as it's sugar daddy and Palin likes it that way. Who could she get as the U.S. sugar daddy?
The woman is so clueless she thinks the White House has a Department of Law and if she was president the Department of Law could stop all ethics investigations involving her.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/07/palin-law/Quote:
In a new interview with ABC News, Sarah Palin left the door open to running for national political office in the future. She said that the “frivolous ethics violations” that plagued her during her time in Alaska wouldn’t be as much as a problem if she were in the White House because of the all-powerful “Department of Law” that the President has at his disposal:
I think on a national level, your department of law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we’ve been charged with and automatically throw them out.
For the record, no such agency exists at the national level. The state of Alaska does have a Department of Law, but it apparently wasn’t able to keep Palin safe from “some of the things [she's] been charged with.”
That's almost as good as her thinking the V.P. is in charge of the Senate because he is ceremonial President of the Senate which means he can only cast a vote to break a tie. That's it. But Palin thinks the V.P. can "get in there and really get some good legislation."