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To: Jim Robinson

You are talking the Sara Palin from Alaska, the former Governor?

THe one that grew State Government by 28% her first year, that helped to tax the living poop out of the oil companies, resulting in higher unemployment - then gave the money away - just like a Dem?

If it’s that Palin, then, ys, no thanks. Unlike a lot of folks on board here, I live in Alaska and with the results of her two year - ya, she quit early - time in office.


275 posted on 05/05/2013 2:46:16 PM PDT by ASOC (What are you doing now that Mexico has become OUR Chechnya?)
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To: ASOC
THe one that grew State Government by 28% her first year, that helped to tax the living poop out of the oil companies, resulting in higher unemployment - then gave the money away - just like a Dem?

According to Breitbart.

""Jobs,
Under Palin’s leadership, Alaska was 2nd in job growth, and 3rd in the change in its unemployment rate, compared to the other states. Alaska also saw a record number of oil jobs in both 2008 and 2009, while natural resource and logging jobs increased 13.7% during Palin’s tenure.""

""Palin cut state spending between 2007 and 2010 by 9.5% while also reducing federal earmark requests by more than 80% during her tenure. She used her line-item veto to cut more than a quarter billion in superfluous spending in both 2007 and 2008. In 2009, she instituted a temporary hiring freeze, while at the same time reducing spending by more than 33% between FY2009 and FY2010.""

""Long before state pension fund liabilities became a topic of national debate and crisis, Palin reformed Alaska’s pension program by ensuring a successful transition from defined benefits to a defined contribution program to address the $8 billion unfunded liability in the program, making it more solvent and leading to a decrease of 34.6% in state liabilities during her tenure.
In stark contrast to President Obama and other governors whose fiscal records are dogged by credit downgrades, Palin left Alaska with an improved credit rating during and following her tenure as governor. Standard & Poor’s raised Alaska’s credit rating from AA to AA+ in April 2008. Then in 2010, both Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s upgraded Alaska to AAA for the first time in the state’s history due to policies enacted by Palin that made the state’s finances more than solvent.""

314 posted on 05/05/2013 3:13:33 PM PDT by ansel12 (Sodom and Gomorrah, flush with libertarians and liberals, short on social conservatives.)
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