Palin: "they want to make government bigger" while Alaska is #1 state for fed dollars.

[grantcart]

Nothing explains the hypocrisy of the Republicans more clearly than a Republican governor from Alaska complaining about the size and wasteful expenditures of the Federal budget while Alaska receives more per capita from the Federal Budget than any other state. And while Alaska is awash with petro dollars it sends large checks to the residents of the states while the citizens of the other states continue to spend billions to help build up their infrastructure.

Palin's statement:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/04/america/04palin-speech.php?page=3

What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he's done turning back the waters and healing the planet? The answer is to make government bigger ... take more of your money ... give you more orders from Washington ...

Alaska's largess in Federal dollars:

http://www.stateline.org/live/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=136&languageId=1&contentId=15797

Uncle Sam doled out the most federal aid to Alaskans per capita in fiscal 2003 while Virginia got the most bucks in federal contracts, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data released Oct. 7.


Overall, per-capita federal spending among states was highest in Alaska, which took in more than $12,200 per person, followed by Virginia, Maryland, New Mexico and North Dakota. Nevada ranked last with more than $5,000 in per-capita federal aid. Minnesota, Wisconsin, New Hampshire and Indiana rounded out the bottom five.

Think how much we could save in federal dollars by cutting Alaska off from infrastructure investment. It appears that they do not appreciate the assistance given by the other 49 states to help build their infrastructure, they ridicule the money that is given to them and refuse to spend their own petro dollars for it.

I wonder how many billions of dollars Alaskans will lose in Federal Dollars for their governors FU speech last night.

She was for the earmarks and the bridge until it became expedient to be against it. Now she is against the bridge but keeping the money. Lets get a plane and send her back up to Alaska so she can cut a check and repay the money for the bridge that she now says that she doesn't want.

[rfranklin]

1. Alaska is the biggest "welfare state"

Please use that Senator Biden.

[panAmerican]

3. This is the PERFECT tagline to promote

[grantcart]

4. exactly and then they rail against it

It will be interesting to see how many bills Alaska politicians will get passed in the future bringing more money to their state.

[PA Democrat]

10. And Sarah is the biggest pork queen in the union.

[patrice]

2. Hey, they need that money if their mayors in the habit of leaving towns of about 6000 people

$20 Million in debt for Malls and a Sports Clubs, but NO ROADS.

[grantcart]

5. and lobbyists for earmarks which in principle they think is evil

[patrice]

9. Lobbyists who also probably lobby for trans-national Oil companies who hired us to grab Iraq

[grantcart]

11. same parallel as to Iraq

we build their infrastructure while they keep the petro dollars and then complain about the US government.

[patrice]

13. E - N - O - U - G - H ! ! !

I'm still trying to get over reading about Chile, Argentina, Indonesia, and Brazil in Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine.

What do you suppose the nation of Alaska would be like up there with the polar ice caps gone, year round, and the tundra thawed? How many Special Needs kids do you think they'd let immigrate to the sovereign nation of Alaska?

:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

[msallied]

6. All the blue states support the red states

And it's the red states that complain about government spending. Hypocrisy abounds. I guess we could stop sending money to them and see what happens. LOL

[grantcart]

7. Well let's start with Alaska - wonder how popular she would be then

when they don't have their checks anymore and have to be self sufficient.

[msallied]

12. Indeed. She's well-versed at talking out of both sides of her asshole.

Like most neo-cons.

[Zookeeper]

8. That is a fact that needs to be made clear to the "red" states...

that are always complaining about welfare and taxes. How about they walk their talk and try paying their own way? Let's see how that works out for them.