Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Opinion

Data Points: Sarah Palin's Lobbyist

As mayor, Palin hired a lobbyist who secured $27 million for the small town of Wasilla, Alaska

Posted September 4, 2008

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Who did the Wasilla lobbist lobby? Stevens?

2008 August GAO report, McCain & Palin

Lobbyists got Palin $27 Million for 6,700 people in Wasilla! That's $4,029.85 for every resident there. Palin/McSame/McBush want to give large corporations more tax breaks, and say they are against pork barrel politics? There are types of patties in the pasture one is the bull variety, and the other is of the equine aroma. I don't think I will buy either brand.

Per GAO 1998-2005 66% US corporations & 68% foreign corporations doing business in America paid no federal tax, not one penny. This leaves the infrastructure burden on the proletariat, and not stock holders or CEO's of the corporations. Gee, John McCain and Sarah Palin it looks like you're falin' the average citizen. Shouldn't corporations and the wealthy pay a reciprocal tax John & Sarah? Is that accomplished by McCain/Palin wanting to give $4 Billion more Dollars to Exxon in tax assistance? I don't like that plan.

In 2005 alone there were 1.2 million and 38,000 foreign companies in the US that paid no tax. They had a combined $2.5 trillion in sales, so I see when McCain and Palin say they want to fight Washington for change, they should prove it by flailing against full size mirrors they would be looking into. Palin supports McCain and Mccain supports Bush. McSame has voted in favor of Bush policies 90% of the time. The fantastic leadership by The Village Idiot of Crawford has led America into a war of idiocy in Iraq that has decimated our economy, devaluation of the dollar, led to high gas prices, the largest job and home loss in American history.

How anyone could wish to vote for 4 more years of the same, I have to say that the logic escapes the sane mind. Will someone or all please close the McCain/Palin gate.

What Lies Beneath Palin?

It is easy to see that is is mostly lies...Now, FINALLY, some of her townspeople are speaking out...They were all too sweet for me and i figured they would be afraid of retaliation, and sure'nuf, they are...But in my opiniopn, they have had enough of her crap... I feel as if she will not be here tro vote for, if that is possible to do...As i am not a lawyer, there are things that need to be looked into, besides her calls through a grape-vine of friends and relatives about her brother-in-law..Now i heard that she obtained records of his illegally...Time for the State prosecutors office to perhaps do some inverstigating? People of Wasilla, by now you know she is using you all, to say how good she was...Do not fear her...Fear is a way she is controlling you all...Fight and be honest to her ways towards all of you...You have a great thing going up there in a small, precious town, and she is tearing it apart...Do not let her do this!!! Laws are written and can be enforced!!!! And she is not going to follow in Bush's foot-steps and think she can do it to all of us!!! She is more like Bush then McCain...So now they can teach one another...But let us hope they loose!!!

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