SARAH PALIN ... QUEEN OF THE WELFARE STATE

Here's Sarah Palin complaining about Barack Obama's economic policies because of how they "redistribute" the wealth ...



If anyone knows about communist tendencies and the redistribution of wealth it's Sarah Palin. Let's review ...

Alaska ranks #3 when it comes to what it's citizens pays out in federal taxes, and what it receives from the federal government. For every dollar Alaskans pay into the system, they take $1.84 out. Put another way, Alaska's hardened sense of "rugged individualism" is really built on a foundation of communal welfarism.

This probably explains why Alaskans have come to see oil within their borders as a form of community property. By making this claim, and turning it into policy, Sarah Palin and the federal government watch over a system that has written a $3,269 check to every eligible man, woman, and child in Alaska.

Interestingly, instead of calling it the "Redistributing the Wealth Because We're Communists Fund" - as Sarah Palin might suggest it is today - the state of Alaska calls it the "Permanent Fund Dividend."

And in case you're wondering that comes out to well over $23,000 for Sarah Palin's family of rugged individualists.

Finally, if we want to take the Conservative's assertion that welfare Mom's have children simply to pad their welfare checks, I have to think it won't be long before republicans start questioning the real motive for Sarah and Todd to have their last child, right? I mean, their oldest children appear ready to leave the nest, taking their welfare check nesteggs with them. I hope the Conservatives don't go this route, though, because the Palin's are already under the gun for using clothes that don't belong to them.

I wonder if the Palin's can see a trailer park from their backyard ... Just asking.

- Mark

UPDATE: I knew it was out there ... Here's Sarah Palin acknowledging her socialist state tendencies a few weeks before being nominated for the VP slot: "[W]e’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs."