ShareThisAny one else see this article about Sarah Palin? This is for the haters .?
By Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman.
As posted in comments on Greta’s article referencing the MOVEON ad about
Sarah Palin.
The last 45 of my 66 years I’ve spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska.
I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well
until this last year. Here’s the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin
controversy gets it. It’s not about persona, style, rhetoric, it’s about
doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I’m about
to mention here.
1. Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as
soon as Palin took the Governor’s office away from a fellow Republican and
tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican’s "Corrupt Bastards
Club" (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State
housing and wearing orange jump suits The Democrats reacted by skipping
around the yard, throwing confetti and singing, "la" (well, you know how
they are). Name another governor in this country that has ever done anything
similar.
2. Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect
the huge, giant oil companies here. So she constructed and enacted a new
system of splitting the oil profits called "ACES." Exxon (the biggest
corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them, "don’t let the door
hit you in the stern on your way out." They stayed, and Alaska residents
went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course, the other
huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the
name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar.
3. The other thing she did when she walked into the governor’s office is she
got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as
"pork." She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the
"when-hell-freezes-over" stack. She let locals know that if we need
something built, we’ll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use
the money she got from selling the previous governor’s jet because it was
extravagant.
Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor’s cook
(remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the State
vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and
dismissing her State provided security force (never mentioning – I imagine -
that she’s packing heat herself). I’m still waiting to hear the names of
those other governors.
4. Now, even with her much-ridiculed "gosh and golly" mannerism, she also
managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas
pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the
history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If
that doesn’t impress you, then you’re trying too hard to be unimpressed
while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies
with her other hand.
5. For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place
called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn’t
start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an investment. No
governor for 30 years could make them get started. Then, she told them she
was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened
court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the
court house. Alaska won again.
6. President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for
electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan
for Alaska to be at 50% renewable by 2025. We are already at 25%. I can give
you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona.
Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that’s just a
cover-up. I’m still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other
governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. I won’t
be holding my breath.
By the way, she was content to return to AK after the national election and
go to work, but the haters wouldn’t let her. Now these adolescent screechers
are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what happens when
you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it will spin
around and tear your face off. Shoulda known better.
Her inexperience? Are you serious, she has far more than Obama does !
Do illegal aliens really believe that this country needs them for their hard work?
WE NEVER ASKED FOR THEM!
Only corrupt agricultural and livestock giants like tyson and natural foods will use thier labor as a way to increase profits to the big men..CEOs etc.. In reality there are plenty of legal immigrants whom need work and even without the legal immigrants there are agricultural machines that could do most of the work if not all. They don’t utilize them becasue it is cheaper to hire an illegal if they can get away with it…as corrupt as that is.Poor Illegal aliens are not the backbone of America,,they don’t do the jobs that American’s won’t..they do the jobs that Americans CAN’T get hired to do because they are a citizen…there is a difference. illegal immigration is decaying the economy and social services of this nation…enough is enough..no more pity for illegals
AND don’t say Ameican people can’t do hard work in the hot sun
highway construction, steelwork, commercial fishing, electricity companies,,, still mostlky American workers
illegals get hired by criminals who use the system, they are for the most part inferior workers because of the language barrier and their low skills
nobody needs them angela but people will exploit them a lot of the time people just give them a helping hand with a job, not that they have any humility for it
