A writer at Slate makes some grade school themed suggestions for Palin’s to use in future discussions that plain folks can understand
Apparently she is going to be speaking in Boston on Wednesday. I can only imagine how she is going to misrepresent the original Boston Tea Party during her speech.
I’m so glad you mentioned this! I didn’t know this was happening, and now I can show up there with my camera and photograph the chaos…:)
Are you saying that Palin won’t talk about how the East India Company had a monopoly on the export of tea and because of that the American colonies were taxed on the tea they had to import from the UK? Also.
Ninyu
2705
She is a trip. I just saw a segment of her speech on the news. Apparently the average American has to work for 100 days during the year before they can even START making money for their family. Apparently all that take home pay I get at the beginning of the year is my imagination.
When you average me and bill gates, we’re billionaires!
WarrenM
2707
She is a trip. I just saw a segment of her speech on the news. Apparently the average American has to work for 100 days during the year before they can even START making money for their family. Apparently all that take home pay I get at the beginning of the year is my imagination.
There is some truth to that taken in the right light, but even still the way they talk about taxes really pisses me off sometimes. People, money isn’t magic. To pay for things, the government needs to generate revenue. How does it do that? TAXES!
That’s actually a common rhetorical device to illustrate the average tax burden. You should listen to some more politicians or read some more political writers if that’s the first time you’ve heard it.
bago
2709
That just makes you a “Tax and Spend Liberal”. Every true conservative knows that “Reagan proved that deficits don’t matter”. True fiscal conservatives cut taxes and spend, spend, spend! There’s no problem with the spending policy until something happens. It’s like the flickering of a light switch.
Americans need to get a grip on themselves regarding taxes and similar state expenses. In Germany 2009 I found numbers like 53.3 Cent of every Euro goes to the state in germany. We work over 200 Days a year for the state or more precise State and State guided services. Including healthcare , Social Security and welfare similar things. If Americans argue about taxes, is it only State Tax on income or does it include other costs that the state collects? I am a wee bit ignorant on this but would like to know.
corsair
2711
Gotta pay for that road that I drive on before I get to work, so that makes sense. She makes it sound like I don’t get something for that money. Maybe I don’t personally - I don’t need a huge navy to protect my overseas investment, for example, but this is a collective society in the sense that we pool our resources to accomplish a given goal. But roads, sanitation, education, law enforcement, etc. aren’t free. Admittedly sometimes I nor anyone else gets something for that money - like that moronic Bridge to Nowhere that Palin supported until she figured out that it was an albatross, and then she pretended like she had opposed it. But they did finish the useless Road to Nowhere that connected to the non-bridge, and even let Alaska keep a large part of the money (God only knows what they did with it - throw tea parties? I’ve never seen an accounting on that). And that was federal money - the communist bitch!
;-)
But Palin indicating that the government takes it all for the first 100 days while you starve is typical hyperbole - it plays well with people who have a difficult time finding two brain cells to rub together.
The other nigh I saw a clip of one of her speeches - pure Palin. “I don’t want to call anyone un-American, but anyone who supports this is un-American.”
Translation: She most definitely wanted to call them un-American, she just wanted to be able to invoke plausible deniability in case someone called her out on it. Basically, she was a gutless weasel.
Bill
2712
Alright, it’s not a lot of grist for the mill, but when Palin rebutsthe president’s thoughts on the costs and responsibilities of isolationism and being a superpower she just comes off as a catty middle schooler.
“It is a vital national security interest of the United States to reduce these conflicts because whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower, and when conflicts break out, one way or another we get pulled into them. And that ends up costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure.”
vs.
“I would hope that our leaders in Washington, D.C., understand we like to be a dominant superpower. I don’t understand a world view where we have to question whether we like it or not that America is powerful.”
Cubit
2714
You know what is funny about that, Lum?
This is Fooey’s last post on Qt3:
http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showpost.php?p=1532455&postcount=61
I wonder if he was a part of the great post-election conservative exodus.
Can’t believe this didn’t get linked here yet.
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/m/i/miesjhel/2010/04/palin-obamas-handeling-of-icel.php
Palin suggested in a Q&A session that President Obama isn’t doing enough to stop the Icelandic Volcano from disrupting European air travel. When asked about the situation in Europe the former governor replied: “Say he decided to use force on Eyjafjallajokull or decided really to come out and do whatever he could to support Air travel, which I would like him to do,”
The whole article is quite hilarious.
Lorini
2716
She certainly gives Obama a lot of power. He’s supposed to do something about a volcano? And I guess as usual she doesn’t know that Europe had closed the airports to incoming travel, not Obama. Boy he must certainly be the anti-christ in her eyes! Only an anti-christ could be expected to be that powerful.
RepoMan
2717
Awesome. I’d LOVE to see her use some personal force on that volcano.
Volcano wins! FATALITY
Edit: sigh, that is a bullshit parody article, I now see after reading it. Useless, unworthy of being linked here.
I still thought it was damned funny, and plausable.
Oh, gosh, I apologize, sir, for having wasted everyone’s time with that tripe.
Who ever would have thought such a thing might be satire?
