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[Bill-SOCAL]

Maybe you guys need to take a lesson or two from Mrs. Palin... Her state has a balanced budget, BILLIONS put away for a rainy day, including a couple billion specifically for education, and is all setup to weather this storm...
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Well, not quite........

The Alaska state budget is facing a budget shortfall of $2 billion to $3 billion for 2010, according to Alaska State Senate President Gary Stevens.
http://sunshinereview.org/index.php/Alaska_state_budget

Alaska is facing a budget shortage of $1.36 billion. Governor Palin is clearly over her head and offers up a blizzard of nonsensical words as proof.

http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.c...ge-of-136.html

And just so you cannot say that the numbers are off, let's see what the actual published state budget has to say:

http://gov.state.ak.us/omb/10_omb/budget/10%20PDFs/FY2010_Fiscal_Summary_2-18-09.pdf

Yep, $1.36 BILLION dollars in the red.

So I'm sorry, but your "facts" are wrong, which of course makes the conclusion suspect as well.

[Darin Jordan]

So I'm sorry, but your "facts" are wrong, which of course makes the conclusion suspect as well.

You are right... the "balanced budget" statement wasn't quite right, anymore anyhow... I misspoke on that part... My point was that have BILLIONS in reserve and have that covered... Here... from your own link:

Alaska has a rainy day fun that sets savings set aside for times when there are shortfalls. This includes $7 billion in the Constitutional Budget Reserve.

And... according to your budget link, they'll have to draw 1.644 Billion from that reserve... Which leaves them about 5+ Billion left in that reserve...

Meanwhile, again, according to your own links, Mrs. Palin is looking for ways to hunker down, cut, and reduce spending... Something that ALL of us do in times of crisis/shortfalls... Well... unless you are a Democrat or Arnold... then you just keep on funding your "priorities", like universal health care, condoms for foriegn countries, studying pig poop, etc...

I'm not sure where you are seeing 1.39 Billion... It looks like they are drawing 1.644 B, according to the budget, but close enough... What's a couple of million dollars between friends...

I'm not even going to address the "blog" link you posted... In fact... I can't beleive you of all people are resorting to "Wiki" pages and unqualified blog posts to back up your story... especially when the blogger uses the "F" word in his print... tactless and hateful if you ask me. I'm sorry "it" (can't tell by the first-name-only they post by... another LAMEness... can't even own up to their own work...) doesn't get it... Her statement makes perfect sense to anyone who is looking for answers but hasn't completed finding them yet... I was at least going from what I heard on CNN and ABC news... Which reminds me... I'm sorry I didn't quite have my facts straight... I hadn't checked the Alaska budget numbers since Feb. 18th... (the date the budget was ammended to now make my info inaccurate)... My Bad...

[Bill-SOCAL]

Despite your disapproval of a couple of the links the point remains that Palin may not be the shining beacon of fiscal authority that you wanted to paint her as. She came into office during historic highs in oil prices, from which the vast majority of budget of Alaska is derived.

[AndyKunz]

Well, Bill, you guys knew what Arnold was like going in. He's as "Republican" as Arlen Specter and Christy Whitman and as conservative as Ted Kennedy and Jim McGreevey and Jon Corzine.

Andy

[Darin Jordan]

Despite your disapproval of a couple of the links the point remains that Palin may not be the shining beacon of fiscal authority that you wanted to paint her as.

And the point also remains that in a time of financial crisis and uncertainty, the correct plan of action for sensible people would be to cut back on your spending and learn to do without for awhile, and to invest and spend your money wisely on investments that will give you a good return on investment and are a good value over time... Clearly NOT the plan of action our current administration and their brain-trust is putting into play.

[Steven Vaccaro]

I still go back to what if it was our own family. What would we do as responsible adults. We would cut back.

This isn't as hard as they are making it seem. The problem is that none of these politicians want to tell someone that they will not be getting their monthly freebie! I have personal experience with many family members and former friends that are living off our tax dollars! Tell them they will have to join society and be contributors instead of leaches! I like most of you get up each day and work. There are more and more of these leaches that get up each morning and do what ever the hell they want on OUR tax dollars! Can you tell I'm a bit frustrated.

If you live near a city, do a google search for methadone clinics. There are lines of people waiting to go into these places each day! Guess what, more government sponsored drug programs that do very little.