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Total Government Expenditures Increased 63 Percent Under Palin. In fiscal 2003—the last fiscal year Palin approved the budget—the total government expenditures of Wasilla, excluding capital outlays, were $7,046,325. In fiscal 1996—the year before Palin took control of the budget—the expenditures were $4,317,947. The increase was 63 percent. [Wasilla Comprehensive Annual Financial Report 2003, Table 1]
The earmark as governors is what I was speaking of. So I guess I thought you were talking about her job as governor my fault.
She specifically hired the folks she needed in order to get those earmarks, who are you trying to kid? She cares about moving up the ladder. She does what she thinks is best for political expediency, so I expect she will perform well under a McCain Administration. Her record of complaints from the Executives in her State are atrocious. The only folks surprised she is unreachable via. the Press is the American public. Folks in her State in executive positions know better. Her approval ratings are plummeting at home and I suspect when the day comes and the State runs out of oil there will be universal groan heard throughout the US - the citizens within the State will see a crushing tax structure and the rest of the US will subsidize the rest. If she cared about you the citizen she'd recognize her duty to educate you regarding what she intends to do as Vice President and address the Commander in Chief readiness assertions.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin employed a lobbying firm to secure almost $27 million in federal earmarks for a town of 6,700 residents while she was its mayor, according to an analysis by an independent government watchdog group.
When he took to the field during the Republican National Convention, Alaska pollster Ivan Moore found that 82 percent of Alaskans gave their governor a positive rating, while only 13 percent disapproved of her.
A similar poll of 500 voters, taken Sept. 20-22, found Palin's approval rating down to 68 percent, with disapproval up to 27 percent. Source
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