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onlylocalsneeded -> RE: Shameless Sarah Palin Exploits the Death of Ted Stevens for Self Promotion (8/14/2010 11:56:43 AM)
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Per the link posted on the $500 million from taxpayers:
"Alaska could have to bail out TransCanada to the tune of $400 million to $2 billion. And when I say Alaska, I mean America. And by America, I mean the American taxpayer. "
Whoever wrote that article is an absolute imbecile who knows nothing of the history of the natural gas pipeline idea, which was certainly not thought up by Sarah Palin, and who equally knows nothing about the history of Alaska.
There is nothing about anything being a burden on Alaska that has ever meant a burden to the American taxpayer. Even all that b.s. about it being a welfare State and being a burden on America, as people are prone to say, completely ignores the fact that Alaska actually pays for the "federal" payments to its citizens, as well as has a fund set up for helping those with disabilities to get proper care and visit their families down states, etc. so it may or may not have more citizens (mostly Americans who are not Alaskan at all) on welfare per capita than other States, but, it is the ONLY STATE that is actually footing the majority, and sometimes absolutely ALL of that bill.
So, no, when you say Alaska, you should never mean America . Because the Federal government has never treated Alaska like it was a State of the United States of America. In the mid-1980's they even tried to pass a bill that would force everyone to relocate out of the State so that it could be declared the nuclear waste dumping ground for America. Which, by the way, it is in some parts, unofficially, and that's why the Natives are so pissed off!
Back to the Pipeline. First time I heard about it, it came as a suggestion from Americans, who were trying to force the Alaska Pipeline to get shut down and the natural gas pipeline to be started, instead. By their suggestion, it would be all American owned and yet Alaska would be entirely responsible for the maintenance of it, since it was their natural gas and predominantly their land that it would be passing over. There were to be no Federal funds, no deal with the Canadians. They basically wanted to use the Alaskan people as the slave labor of the American people, to supply you guys with the natural gas with very little cost and no effort on the part of Americans. So, anything that is mentioned in that article is several steps up from an entire country (that's what State means, look it up!) being enslaved to your lust for a good weekend barbecue!
And, guess what? I heard about it when I was around 9 years old. Sarah Palin may have thought of running for Ms. Alaska around that time, but, I don't think she'd even gotten that far in her political career.
I am not saying she is a wonderful person or a great politician. I'm saying to blame the deal on her, or on Alaska, when it so obviously started before her time and from within the Federal government, is absolutely ludicrous. And, to ever claim that a burden on Alaska has ever become a burden on the American taxpayer, when Alaskans are still not treated as American citizens in the majority of situations, is about as silly.
Good day!
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