tipsgnob
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Some would label it crass hypocrisy, but while Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin are berating Sen. Barack Obama over his alleged socialist-spread-the-wealth policies, Alaskans eagerly anticipate their annual welfare check from the state government.
This year, every Alaskan man, woman and child receives a government check in the amount of $3,269, which amounts to a citizenship reward of $22,883 for Gov. Palins seven-member family. The government, quite literally, pays people to live in Alaska.
On the national front, for the past eight years weve rapidly been redistributing wealth from the middle class to the affluent so that the top 1 percent of our population now controls a higher percentage of wealth since the foretelling year of 1929. Median incomes continue to drop, while the wealthy grow obscenely rich with no apparent regard to those whose ever more productive labor feathers their beds.
Sen. Obama believes this Robin-Hood-in-reverse situation is neither sustainable nor beneficial for the vast majority of Americans, while Sen. McCain advocates expanding President Bushs failed economic policies.
Sen. Obamas policies are designed to correct a dangerous and growing economic imbalance, but hed never dream of filling Americas cup with Alaskas socialist broth.
This year, every Alaskan man, woman and child receives a government check in the amount of $3,269, which amounts to a citizenship reward of $22,883 for Gov. Palins seven-member family. The government, quite literally, pays people to live in Alaska.
On the national front, for the past eight years weve rapidly been redistributing wealth from the middle class to the affluent so that the top 1 percent of our population now controls a higher percentage of wealth since the foretelling year of 1929. Median incomes continue to drop, while the wealthy grow obscenely rich with no apparent regard to those whose ever more productive labor feathers their beds.
Sen. Obama believes this Robin-Hood-in-reverse situation is neither sustainable nor beneficial for the vast majority of Americans, while Sen. McCain advocates expanding President Bushs failed economic policies.
Sen. Obamas policies are designed to correct a dangerous and growing economic imbalance, but hed never dream of filling Americas cup with Alaskas socialist broth.