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- inactive, on 03/20/2009, -23/+325You can tell Sarah Palin doesn't place any value on education. Just listen to her talk.
- Dipsomaniac, on 03/20/2009, -14/+253Wait, wait, wait.
She refused money for schools and special-needs kids?
The PARENT of a child with Down Syndrome refused funding that could make the life of her child and children like him better?
What was that about conservative family values, again? - scottknick, on 03/20/2009, -16/+196FTA: Much of the stimulus package money for education -- about $74 million -- was designated for poor schools and special-needs kids.
Hey, punishing needy children is a small price to pay to build Palin's conservative credentials. At least next time she runs it will be as "former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin." - northwatuppa, on 03/20/2009, -14/+146And she is ONLY doing this so she can have a sound bite in her much-anticipated 2012 presidential election bid.
- barackoblogger, on 03/20/2009, -17/+107this is very sad. Children suffer so that she can make political points.
- JenniferInMO, on 03/21/2009, -16/+89Didn't she just parade her special needs child in front of the cameras today to slam the President for his bad joke last night? So after slamming the President for slipping up his words she takes her baseball bat to the kids of Alaska. She is a piece of work.
- apastafarian, on 03/20/2009, -17/+88Dig kids dig. Because that's all you'll be qualified to do after Palin's through with you.
- freedomjoe, on 03/20/2009, -14/+83The GOP realized a long time ago that education would be the death knell for their party. Smart people vote otherwise, esp these days. Palin's Poujadist appeal doesn't hold water with the majority, and hold sno water with the educated.
No matter who did this, though, I find it un-American. We need all of the states to participate in the stimulus plan and they know it. It won't help if these states don't recover, and continue sucking off the tit of the government in other ways because they can't function on their own. Palin already knew her budget was a mess this year (due to the oil company profits declining as well as the oil company deciding to drill elsewhere due to her socialist program of forcing the oil companies to pay huge additional fees to the people), so this is really irresponsible. Not to mention that Alaska headlines as a welfare state already.
The CBO report proves that unemployment and food stamps are two of the top immediate stimulators of the economy. Cutting spending for the long-term stimulating programs like education and special needs won't show up immediately, but will severely hurt Alaska and the entire country in the long run. We all pay for the folly of the red states, as they top the welfare states who receive more money than they pay in to the system. - EnviroChem, on 05/22/2009, -15/+82I normally avoid digging or sharing anything about Palin because I just want her to go away, but this is really sad for the children of Alaska. It seems Republicans want to do anything they can to make sure our public education system fails our children. Republicans say government can solve our problems and they are out to prove it.
- inactive, on 03/20/2009, -16/+82"Now, for some fancy pageant-walkin'."
- kdawg1012, on 03/20/2009, -16/+68Maybe it's just time to impeach Governor Palin. That would allow her to pursue her political ambitions full time.
- counterspin, on 03/20/2009, -4/+56Don't forget, they can also DRILL!
- counterspin, on 03/20/2009, -17/+67Scandalous! Unfortunately...not surprising...
- inactive, on 03/20/2009, -18/+54A source who prefers to remain un-named quoted Governor Palin:
"We won't take that pork barrel money from Washington. Nope. We Don't need no public schoolin' in Alaska. Its time for some good ol' fashioned home schoolin'. That way yer daughters wont get knocked up by some cute lookin' hockey player like my Bristol."
Hey... if WND can do it so can I. - freedomjoe, on 03/21/2009, -13/+47SHe doesn't care about special needs children unless they can be used as props. She cut funding to special needs kids last year and now she's turning down stim money for special ed and emergency food....no matter that people are starving in her state.
Federal spending represents about one third of Alaska’s economy each year, 59 per cent of Alaska is under federal ownership and Sarah Palin is rejecting $288 million in federal funds because she believes they will give the federal government too much control over Alaska? SHe doesn't mind taking 451 million for a bridge she never built, but she'll take the press for turning this money down. Her PAC forced her to turn the money down, so she's sacrificing the people in Alaska for her political future. - Ajajadude, on 03/21/2009, -5/+38Why should she care? Seems to me she's got access to resources for those kinds of things without having to deal with those dammed public schools.
- inactive, on 03/21/2009, -7/+39Nancy Pelosi is an incompetent ass. Sarah Palin is an incompetent ass. People who view life through political ideologies are just incompetent.
- inactive, on 03/21/2009, -7/+37Sarah Palin is the dumbest ***** pile of flesh to ever provide life support to a vagina.
- emkaysmith, on 03/21/2009, -15/+45That's because you don't need a bunch of liberal teachers for *real* education. Just a Bible.
- kaminariko, on 03/21/2009, -10/+40That's nothing. Rick Perry just turned down $555 million in federal stimulus money for unemployment aid here in Texas. He basically told the growing number of jobless in Texas who can't pay their mortgages, "Good luck with that."
- SpinningHead, on 03/21/2009, -1/+30family values=how well you pose at Olan Mills
- deathyepl, on 03/21/2009, -7/+36No we don't, her popularity in Alaska has been on a constant plunge. Stop making ***** up, you dumbass. She's more popular outside Alaska than she is in.
- scrap104, on 03/21/2009, -16/+43***** Sarah Palin.
- debauch, on 03/21/2009, -9/+34that'll show those socialist teachers a thing or two. everybody knows education has a left-wing bias.
- Ajajadude, on 03/21/2009, -3/+23Well...given the sad state of affairs with American educational systems across the country, refusing money where even a little will go to education is a bad thing.
- Nephrastar, on 03/21/2009, -1/+19Sarah Palin probably thinks that it's not her problem as long as it's not directly affecting her.
- diggproof, on 03/21/2009, -9/+27You better watch out if you're a political inconvenience of Sarah Palin. You wouldn't want to hurt her chances of becoming president.. She'll take the food right off of our teacher's tables. That's pretty low.
- kingUssop, on 03/21/2009, -10/+28Why would she reject money for schools? The showboating anti-Democrat behavior is getting lower and lower.
- rawnzilla, on 03/21/2009, -9/+26Sarah Palin can go parasailing off a cliff for all I care.
- blackninja543, on 03/21/2009, -8/+24Because you know... You don't need money for schools, you just need the No Child Left Behind Act.
- sulthernao, on 03/21/2009, -0/+16Alaskans still elected Don Young and almost elected Ted Stevens even after the indictment, so what does that say?
- sugarazor, on 03/21/2009, -1/+16See, here's the problem... you can't rail against something, then take some of it. Bobby Jindal tried to pull the stunt of taking $3.7 of the $3.8 billion promised to his state. What the ***** kind of stand is that? Take all of it or take none of it, end of story.
I'm sure she's got some bridges to nowhere to build, but take the money for the ***** schools. - andytronic, on 03/25/2009, -2/+17"Much of the stimulus package money for education -- about $74 million -- was designated for poor schools and special-needs kids"
Well, there's yer problem! - deathyepl, on 03/21/2009, -6/+20Frostman3D - You insulted ALL Alaskans by intimating we are incapable of making an intelligent decision while voting.
Did we, or did we not, get rid of Stevens? You have NO idea how BAD that was for us politically, Stevens had a LOT of political clout. We gave up a lot, but he was corrupt and too out of touch with modern life to be allowed to continue to represent us in the Senate, so we did what was right. If we were as dumb as you intimate, we would've voted him right back in, conviction or not!
So you may not have called me names, but you DID insult me, and you insulted my intelligence... and you did it by making a statement that is not true. There may be a group of extreme right wing Republicans up here that still love her, but there's not enough of them to get her re-elected. - useraccess, on 03/21/2009, -6/+20Frostman3D...It did kind of sound like you are talking out of your ass...smart or dumb, I don't know.
- novenator, on 03/21/2009, -10/+23Maybe the schools could reject her rejectionism and accept the money, then if any Palin-lover parents would like, the could decline the money for their children. (extrapolation, I know, but you get the point)
- brucealmighty, on 03/21/2009, -2/+15Her kids don't finish high school anyway so it's all moot to her...
- jbella, on 03/21/2009, -3/+15I'm curious to know what strings you think are attached to this stimulus funding?
I want real facts, not a link to some right-wing nut-job talking head that says so. - ZeroCubed, on 03/21/2009, -1/+13She's pretty stupid if she thinks people won't remember this in 2012.
- stonebear, on 03/20/2009, -4/+16The two are mutually exclusive, no?
- jgzman, on 03/21/2009, -2/+14I note that you didn't get rid of Stevens until he was sitting in a jail cell. That's very in-touch of you.
- JenniferInMO, on 03/21/2009, -4/+15I did not anticipate a good laugh when I started reading this thread. But ... LOL!
- ChiaGod, on 03/21/2009, -4/+14Quoting Perry: "During these tough times, Texas employers are working harder than ever to move products to market, make payroll and create jobs," Perry said at a news conference. "The last thing they need is government burdening them with higher taxes and expanded obligations."
Nice. Perry cares about businesses, but now the unemployed will have $555 million less to use to not only subsist, but purchase these products these "hard working employers" put to market.... - blackjack06, on 03/21/2009, -13/+22***** this bitch.
- Ajajadude, on 03/21/2009, -2/+11Well, for starters, having less kids-to-teacher ratios lowered a bit would help...and that requires money.
- spookyttws, on 03/21/2009, -8/+17My Mom is a high school teacher here in California, and I can tell you they're hurting. They're laying off 30% of the classified workers and another 30 or so teachers in surrounding districts. It may not sound like a huge amount when looking at the size of our state, but these are not people we can lose. It's basically saying we were running at extremely minimal capacity currently, and now we're going to let go of another 10% of the work force. Class sizes are going to be in the 50's next year and no summer school or "Adult School' (where those who fail make up courses) are being offered this year period. If I lived in Alaska I'd be even more pissed than I am now.
- Paranor01, on 03/21/2009, -2/+10Please learn what "socialism" means before you spout the term. You don't know what it means.
- sulthernao, on 03/21/2009, -0/+8Huh?
- SpinningHead, on 03/21/2009, -2/+10Schools are funded mainly by property tax. Inner cities don't get much funding. Kids in the wealthy suburbs north of Chicago pay tens of thousands per student per year. The south side of Chicago has a few hundred per child. Then theres the issue of growing up in a poor uneducated household, but thats another problem nobody wants to deal with.
- Dustin00, on 03/21/2009, -0/+8It's what the Family Values Party does best!
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