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Is Palin a Socialist?

POSTED BY: KHYRON
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 00:50
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Monday, October 27, 2008 11:09 AM

KHYRON


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"Socialism" or Breathtaking Hypocrisy?
by James Love

I lived in Alaska for 13 years. Alaska is more dependent upon government spending and subsidies than any state in the Union. This includes the vast federal government subsidies, as well as the state government spending. According to the State of Alaska Legislative Finance Division's own "Fiscal Summary," Palin's state budget request for fiscal year 2009 was $12,680 per person. As detailed recently by the Los Angles Times, the AP and others, this includes a plethora of state subsidies to well connected businesses, from politically active Dairy farmers and strip mall speculators to foreign owned pipeline companies. One of the reasons for Palin's high approval ratings in Alaska was her support for hiking taxes on the oil companies and distributing some of the money to citizens. Palin is a serial supporter of bridges to nowhere. Good policies or bad policies aside, how can Sarah Palin with a straight face talk about socialism?

If it took a democrat to bring about welfare reform, it apparently took a republican to nationalize the banking and insurance sector, supported by John McCain. McCain and Palin, in the same stump speech, boost McCain's $300 billion mortgage subsidy program with attacks on socialism?

How stupid are the voters supposed to be?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/socialism-or-breathtaking_b_1
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Monday, October 27, 2008 12:37 PM

OUT2THEBLACK


NOPE !

There's no story here...

It's kind of like Nevada , where THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT claims to 'OWN' 85 PERCENT of 'The State'...

In a similar way , with 'The Feds' claiming to 'OWN' a huge portion of Alaska , they certainly should be expected to pony up with some coin , for the Folk who actually live there and make all that land worth something...

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Monday, October 27, 2008 1:01 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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One of the reasons for Palin's high approval ratings in Alaska was her support for hiking taxes on the oil companies and distributing some of the money to citizens.


Why, that sounds suspiciously like using a windfall profits tax to "spread the wealth" to the less fortunate! Or what the Republicans routinely refer to as "socialism".

Mike

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:10 PM

KHYRON


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/olbermann-sarah-palin-is_n_13
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:50 AM

SWISH


D'oh! You beat me to it Khyron!

I wish I could find the text of that quote from anti-socialist Sarah to paste here...

ETA: A-ha! Sarah speaking about Alaska:

"And Alaska - we're set up, unlike other states in the union, where it's collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs."

-Sarah Palin, boasting to the reporter visiting from "The New Yorker Magazine," of having been able to send a check for $1,200 to every man, woman and child in the state since, quote "Alaska is sometimes described as America's socialist state, because of its collective ownership of resources”

(taken from Olbermann Report transcript)

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