[lbo-talk] more on Palin

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Sep 3 12:08:53 PDT 2008


On Sep 3, 2008, at 2:55 PM, boddi satva wrote:


> roblem is she's not by any stretch of the imagination an anti-
> governmentista.
>
> 1) She's Alaskan, and they all live on the government teat.

So what? The states that are net takers of Federal funds are mostly Republican and the states that are net contributors are mostly Democrat. The South and much of the West would be backwaters without Federal subsidies. But that doesn't stop them from complaining about the gummint.


> I know this sounds like I'm obsessed with pipelines,

Right.

Doug



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