[lbo-talk] earmarks, Alaska style

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Sep 10 17:52:58 PDT 2008


On Sep 10, 2008, at 8:45 PM, Max B. Sawicky wrote:


> As Toshiro Mifune said once, "What should peasants do?!?"
>
> Without the oil revenue Alaska is not a rich state. The Alaska
> public sector is well-financed from oil. Personal per capita
> income is somewhere above average, but the price level there is out
> of sight.
>
> All this pork/earmark business ma

For me the issue is that these assholes denounce redistribution & gov spending and then benefit from it bigtime. Where would Arizona be without Washington? There'd hardly be any water west of the Mississippi if it weren't for federal water projects. I have no prob sending money from my above-median locale to a below-median locale - isn't that a proper socialist thing to do? I doubt Obama will make that argument, of course.



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