Drawing Even

FISCAL CONSERVATIVE


Sarah Palin???s portrait as a fiscal conservative when she ran the city of Wasilla, Alaska, as its mayor from 1996 to 2002. However, the truth is during her 6 years as mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over 33 percent.

According to figures provided by the city of Wasilla, the operating budget for Wasilla went from $6,050,160 in fiscal year 1996 to $9,393,768 in 2002. That???s a 55 percent increase.

A huge increases in tax revenues during her administration weren???t enough to fund everything on her wish list though; borrowed money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? Or a new library?

No! $1 million for a park, $15 million-plus for construction of a multi-use sports complex...She also supported bonds for $5.5 million for road projects that could have been done in 5-7 years without any borrowing.

The fiscal year ending 1996 (when Palin took the reins), which showed the city???s long-term debt at $1.12 million, mostly for paving and sewer projects. The annual financial report for fiscal year ending June 30, 2002 ??? Palin???s last year in office ??? shows that the total long-term debt was $24.8 million. Long-term debt increased $23.7 million.

From $1.1 million to $23.7million ??? that is one large increase.

OOOHHH, THOSE REPUBLICAN ECONOMICS???GOLLY GEE


AND HOW HAVE THOSE PROJECTS WORKED OUT???.hummmm

WASILLA, Alaska ??? The biggest project that Sarah Palin undertook as mayor of this small town was an indoor sports complex, where locals played hockey, soccer, and basketball, especially during the long, dark Alaskan winters.

The only catch was that the city began building roads and installing utilities for the project before it had unchallenged title to the land. The misstep led to years of litigation and at least $1.3 million in extra costs for a small municipality with a small budget. What was to be Ms. Palin???s legacy has turned into a financial mess that continues to plague Wasilla.

???It???s too bad that the city of Wasilla didn???t do their homework and secure the land before they began construction,??? said Kathy Wells, a longtime activist here. ???She was not your ceremonial mayor; she was in charge of running the city. So it was her job to make sure things were done correctly.???

Litigation resulting from the dispute over Ms. Palin???s sports-complex project is still in the courts, with the land???s former owner seeking hundreds of thousands of additional dollars from the city.

Palin likes to say ???Good judgment can make the difference between avoiding a crisis and managing a catastrophe.???

Indeed.

A PEA IN THE POD???..PALIN

ON SPENDING THAT HER BOSS JUST LOVES???NOT!!!

???Porky??? Palin ??? hey, as it turns out, that pig does wear lipstick???.wow!!!

After McCain said earlier this year that he won't "spend $3 million of your tax dollars to study the DNA of bears in Montana," Politico reports that as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin requested millions of dollars to study the DNA of harbor seals, among other things (including research on the mating habits of crabs.)
Intelligent people everywhere are both amused and appalled that Palin, who claims she is conservative when it comes to earmarks, would request federal money for a project nearly identical to one that McCain has mocked. The earmark is yet another example of how McCain and Palin are "hypocrites and liars."

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/9/11/02449/9021

At the end of the clip, John McCain promises that he'll make the names of wasteful government spenders "famous."

Apparently, he kept his pledge: he picked one of them to be his veep.

???We???re not going to spend $3 million of your tax dollars to study the DNA of bears in Montana,??? McCain has said during this year???s campaign, referring to a study he???s mocked for years of whether grizzlies need to keep their status as an endangered species.

Palin, meanwhile, has requested $3.2 million to be spent in part researching the ???genetics of harbor seals,???

"Senator McCain said Governor Palin ???learned that earmarks are bad???, but in 2008 alone Gov. Palin requested $256 million in earmarks for Alaska, and her state received more earmarks per person that any other state," said spokesman Tommy Vietor.

"The fact is that Governor Palin isn???t just good at getting pork projects, she???s one of the most successful pork barrel politicians in history."

OINK, OINK, BABE

Democrats and Obamacans's courting all Republican and Independent Voters!

Obama???s message rings of a ???Beautiful day coming to America??? which is similar to Reagan???s ???Its morning in america again???

Beautiful day coming to America

U2 - beautiful day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omFdpnSu57U

Over 70 retired generals and admirals have endorsed Obama/Biden '08

Hope and Change backed by strength.

Our World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY

Obamacan's - ???The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.???
William F. Buckley, Jr. quote

The real change team for the last 19 months
Change we can believe in.

Vote Obama/Biden '08

Interesting NEWSWEAK photo of the two candidates,especially,Obamas.

''Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you''

Satchel Paige,pitcher,Cleveland Indians [and Negro Leagues].

Soon, the more she prattles, Palin will make clear that she has no substance, only flash and sass, with dangerous and hateful, reductive politics. Sad. What about women of color, men of color, poor people, or those who never voted but will now, because despite the idea that white women are seen as central as those that "matter," those of us at the margins, and those who know what a margin is, will be moving and will continue to attack this nonsense and help to put Obama and Biden in office by simply showing up to vote. Our nation cannot afford more war, a dismal education system, massive debt, all for the sake of rallying behind some barely educated white woman, who has done nothing to deserve star status but trigger america's darkest, racist heart while reviving the greedy rich, white men whom she serves as little more than a very ugly symbol, despite her pageantry.