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You have to wonder if any of Sarah Palin’s detractors, especially the so-called conservative ones, are eating their words today.
Remember hearing about how we couldn’t have some inexperienced hockey mom a heartbeat away from the presidency? It didn’t matter that she actually had executive experience, and in fact was far more experienced than Barack Obama. (Now we know what it’s like to have an executive with no experience in the White House and it isn’t pretty.)
Palin proves again that she’ll do the right thing, regardless of whether it’s the popular thing to do. She’s announced that she will reject 45% of the stimulus funds offered by the federal government.
“We won’t be bound by federal strings in exchange for dollars, nor will we dig ourselves a deeper hole in two years when these federal funds are gone,” Palin said in a statement.
“Simply expanding state government under this federal stimulus package creates an unrealistic expectation that the state will continue these programs when the federal funds are no longer available,” she added. “Our nation is already over $11 trillion in debt; we can’t keep digging this hole.”
Palin will accept $514.1 million of the estimated $930.7 million provided to Alaska, some of which the state has already accepted for Department of Transportation projects. In a press release, the governor’s office said it planned to accept “just 55 percent of the available stimulus funds, all for capital projects.”
The governor said she hopes to “foster a discussion” about the stimulus and warned that the “growth of government” will interfere in the lives of Alaskans.
Good for her, and good for every governor who refuses to take the easy way out. Their states will be better off in the long run.
H/T Conservatives 4 Palin who pointed out that there was no teleprompter in sight during Governor Palin’s presser!
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