Sarah
Palin, Socialist Super Star
Alan
Archibald
(This article was thoroughly
fact-checked when published by “Alaska Dispatch” in October, 2008)
Sarah Palin is the most socialist
politician in the United States.
By describing Alaska’s Governor in this
way, I do not use the word "socialist" in any "qualified"
or "diminished" sense.
Rather, I describe Governor Palin's oil tax re-distribution policy as "socialist" in the most fundamental sense of the word: i.e., "taking money from the rich and redistributing it, equally, among everyone who is not rich." http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/27/palin-shares-wealth/
Governor Palin is the nation's most zealous "socialist" official, whether evaluated by
"philosophical commitment" or taking into account "socialist
policy-making."
During Gov. Palin’s first years in
office, she fought hard to impose large taxes on private corporations and has
been very successful increasing taxes on oil companies in order to secure an
unprecedentedly large "cut" of corporate wealth for subsequent
re-distribution to The People of Alaska.
This “expropriated” wealth has been
spread around with extraordinary largesse, enriching every Alaskan who
breathes, and bestowing unusually large sums of money on those Alaskans who
have lots of children.
The
Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (1976) -- coupled with Gov.
Palin's recent imposition of an oil windfall tax – has resulted in “The First
Dude’s” family receiving a 2008 oil tax payment of $19,614.00.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/27/palin-shares-wealth/
Extrapolating from Alaska’s
“spread-the-wealth protocols” we find that Gov. Palin's sister - with nine
children - recently received an annual oil tax re-distribution check for
$32,690.00. (One wonders if all this “free money” encourages Alaskan
teens to have children at the earliest opportunity - even "out of
wedlock.")
Against this “Alaskan backdrop,” the
nation - as a whole - is at a turning point; perhaps a point of no
return.
Given these circumstances, it is urgent
that citizens know the factual truth about Gov. Palin's vigorous expansion --
and boastful enforcement -- of socialist policy.
Instead of clarity, however, we
witness a McCain/Palin ticket as deceptive in its economic practice as the
Bush administration was deceptive in its calamitous "rush to
war." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYBA9JD5oW4
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/jan/12/usa.books
Truth be told, Gov. Palin’s pitbull
adherence to socialist policy is only half the story.
Alaska also leads the nation in per capita "earmarks,"
having secured twice as much "pork" as runner-up Hawaii, which,
in turn, is only rivaled by the Republican states of North Dakota, South
Dakota, Mississippi and West Virginia.
Consider.
The amount of per capita pork shunted from Washington to Alaska by Gov. Palin is
22 times as much as the per capita
pork brought home by Senator Obama’s home state of Illinois. In raw numbers,
each Alaskan resident drained The
National Treasury of $555.54 this year whereas each Illinois resident
tapped The Treasury for a mere $25.47
of “bacon.” http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/02/pork.spending/index.html#cnnSTCOther2
If we add Alaska's per capita “pork"
(expropriated from “the lower 48 states”) to Gov. Palin's re-distribution of
private oil wealth, the "total take" by Governor Palin's own family is
$23,502.78.
If we add Alaska's per capita "pork" to
Sarah's sister's "oil money redistribution," "that" family
"holds out its hand" and collects $38,245.40.
No other government official - anywhere
in the United States – “spreads the wealth around” like Sarah Palin.
And do you recommend that states
without oil reserves follow your socialist lead by taxing-and-redistributing
the earnings of other natural resource companies currently exempt from
your redistributive taxes in Alaska.
During Ms. Palin's governorship, The Socialist State of Alaska has enforced unprecedented
re-distribution of private wealth to public coffers. By representing
herself as "a free market capitalist," Palin deliberately
deludes the rest of the nation while, at bedrock, she "hitches her star"
to redistributive socialist policies that have propelled her meteoric rise
to political stardom.
A final note.
If Sarah Palin is oblivious to her
socialist commitment, then her self-induced ignorance of the nuts and
bolts of her own political philosophy bodes ill for the nation.
We can not put Country First and Sarah Palin second.
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Socialist John McCain describes his own Socialism at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2JPbQOHEkY
http://crooksandliars.com/silentpatriot/daily-show-flashback-mccain-socialis
Socialist Ronald Reagan
described by David Gergen at:
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/david-gergan-ac360-oct-27-2008
Socialism for The Rich: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu5B-2LoC4s
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Addendum, August 4, 2010
Greetings.
Please correct any factual errors in "Sarah
Palin, Super Star."
I labored long and hard to fact-check all information contained
in the article and want it to be accurate.
Although it may seem unlikely that anyone "so sweet" and, furthermore, endowed with such a winsome smile could be guilty of deliberate
deception on a massive scale, we are begrudgingly indebted to Adolf Hitler for an unusually keen observation: "In the big lie there is always a certain
force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more
easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than
consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds
they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they
themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to
resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to
fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have
the impudence to distort the truth so infamously... By means of shrewd lies,
unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is
hell - and hell heaven... The great masses of people will more easily fall
victim to a big lie than to a small one." Mein Kampf
