Pork, Excellent Sarah and the Red Lines

Written by: Eric Weis on Sep 5, 2008 2:09 PM EDT

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Today, I learned that Wasilla AK has received about $1000 per capita in federal ear mark spending.  That is twice the average of the State of Alaska ($500 per person) and 50 times the national average.  Turns out Sarah Palin was truly excellent at getting the pork.  Wow, what an excellent maverick reformer!

Now that I know this, I am planning to move to Wasilla.  That’s where I can grab some of that good handout money which has been sucked out of my own income, you know, from those taxes the Republicans say are too high.  Well, I'm going up there to get my money back.

By the way, today's news...unemployment hits 6.1% (but the real value is about 7.5%, taking into account those who have simply stopped looking for work), home foreclosures are way up in August, the stock market has plunged 300 points again and the inflation rate is now over 5%.  Hey, it's the economy, stupid.  Deja vu all over again.

Would somebody, please, dump some memory pills into the water supply so that we don't lose our memories of the past eight (how about 27) years of Republican free-spending, tax-giveaway and deficit-busting budgets!   If the American people buy into Republicans being the agents of change - SHAME ON US!

Oh one more nice factoid.  Our national debt is now at $9.7 trillion and counting.  A trillion is hard to think about.  Bring it down to human level, and understand it as $27,000 in debt for every American alive today.  Or look at it historically - NOW AT A 50 YEAR HIGH. 

There is a great graph on this. You can find it at http://zfacts.com/p/318.html and it shows that national debt from post WW II to the present time.  The curve shows debt in decline (black lines) and growth (red lines).  Pay attention to the red lines.  The RED lines.  From the RED party.  Get it?  The Chinese sure do.

Get the graph and paste it onto every surface you can.  Let it be our memory pill.

- ArcticEric

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