McCain's Earmark Lie
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| Mon, 09-15-2008 - 9:19pm |

McCain's Earmark Lie: Palin actually grubs $1 mil/day as Gov. by Kagro X
Mon Sep 15, 2008 at 03:00:11 PM PDT
Last week, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain said his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, hadn't sought earmarks or special-interest spending from Congress, presenting her as a fiscal conservative. But state records show Gov. Palin has asked U.S. taxpayers to fund $453 million in specific Alaska projects over the past two years.
It's been 652 days since Earmark Queen Sarah Palin took office as Governor of Alaska.
In that time, she's hustled for $453,000,000 in federal lipstick pork.
That's $694,785.28 a day. Six hundred ninetey-four thousand, seven hundred and eight five dollars and twenty-eight cents. Every day. Even Sundays!
Palin was grubbing six hundred ninetey-four thousand, seven hundred and eight five dollars and twenty-eight cents out of the federal trough on the very day when John McCain looked America in the eye and said she was taking zero.
And she took it again today, too.
And she took it on every one of the 312 nights she spent at home and billed the Alaskan taxpayers for it.
So why say it's a million dollars a day? Well, first, let me show you what Slick Sarah Palin is telling people:
On the campaign trail, Gov. Palin has repeatedly attacked Sen. Obama on earmarks. "Our opponent has requested nearly one billion dollars in earmarks in three years. That's about a million for every working day," she said at a rally in Albuquerque, N.M.
Ohhhh, this feels like it's going to get embarrassing in a second....
And, behold! Look what "The Math" says!
It is difficult to compare Sen. Obama's earmark record with Gov. Palin's -- their states differ in size, for instance, and the two candidates play different roles in the process. But using the same calculation that the McCain campaign uses, the total amount of earmarked dollars divided by the number of working days while each held office (assuming a five-day workweek, every week, for both), Gov. Palin sought $980,000 per workday, compared with roughly $893,000 for Sen. Obama.
Not only is Palin taking much more, but oh my word if the million dollar figure doesn't actually fit her sooooo much better than the person she's trying to use it against! What a surprise!
So that's almost a million dollars a day, whether she showed up at the office or not. A million bucks, plus $60 in her pocket for defrosting one of her own mooseburgers for lunch.
And really, Palin must be asking herself, why not chisel the Alaska state government a little bit? After all:
The state's earmark requests stand out in part because its state government is among the wealthiest in the U.S. Flush with oil and gas royalties, it doesn't impose income or sales taxes. In fact, money flows the other way: Every man, woman and child this year got a check for $3,200.
Gosh, but they're such rugged individualists up there! They're gonna launch themselves into orbit with those bootstraps, don'tcha know?
A million dollars a day. From you and me. Plus $3,200 in the bank for each one of 'em. And $60 in Sarah's pocket for every lunch at home. (Like every working mom, of course!)
It's the new fiscal responsibility, in John McCain's seven house-owning, $5 million middle class living world!

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But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence.....truth is considered profane, and only illusion sacred. Sacredness
So go ahead and refute anything - just ONE thing - in the OP, nurse livingston.
We're waiting.....(zzzzz...)
But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence.....truth is considered profane, and only illusion sacred. Sacredness
*** There you go again - we were talking about what YOU should HOPE for and you have to go and insult the great democratic party again.
The "great democratic party" insulted itself when it propped up an elitist neophyte as their candidate for President. But I do have "hope"..."hope" that Barry becomes a bad memory very, very soon so McCain and Palin can start getting the country back on track.
*** Did you not learn how to play nicely in kindergarten????
I didn't go to Obama's school, so I'm sorry, I never learned about appeasement. ; )
*** I never implied that the great Obamessia is hiding behind any kind of facade, although having followed a president who relies on the 'man behind the curtain' for eight years I can see where you think that is just how things work.
You said he shouldn't be expected to explain what his slogan of "hope and change" because it's like "wishing on a star"...so, yeah, either he doesnt' know...which is entirely possible...or it's a facade to make his socialist agenda palatable to the ignorant masses.
*** Oh dear your reprogramming could take quite a while.
We always knew that liberals were into mind-control. LOL!
*** I only wish I had time, but sadly I may have to go push my liberal propaganda on my children so they can grow up to be radical liberals who try to bring hope and change to the world.
Why bother? Barry's gonna bring the "hope and change" if you "wish" hard enough on lots and lots of stars. ; )
((Right...Ferraro...the woman the Dems accused of being a racist. Congratulations. LOL!))
And Sarah's better? She gave the speech with slogans from full-blown racists and loves guns so much that she doesn't think that automatic weapons should be banned. All that she needs now is to belong to some radical group that wants to separate from the United States...Oh, wait...she spoke to the AIP via satellite and said "Keep up the good work". Mission Accomplished. lol.
*** Nor does one "read" Olbermann, which makes your statement both oddly oblivious and problematic.
Libs read? LOL!
Gender has nothing to do with it. Some people need to realize, not all women are going to vote for her simply because she is a female. I find her to be arrogant, a liar, and ready to set our rights back 100 years.
Rose
Rose
I hope you aren't saying Obama hasn't been
Rose
Odd that black folks don’t have the same reaction when an inexperienced community organizer is running for President. I guess you don’t have to “pay your dues’ if you’re a (black) man.
Boy, have you swallowed the RNC propaganda hook, line and sinker!!
Rose
((That is ok - it is sometimes a case of one step forward and two steps back with hate addiction. )))
lol. I nominate this for the best line of the night. lol.
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