Sarah Palin: Give us our $200 million back!

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Author: angrytaxpayer

Started: September 10, 2008, 3:25:27 pm

Target: US taxpayers not in Alaska

Category: Government & Politics

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100,000

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Dear Governor Sarah Palin:

For days now you have been boasting to Americans about your courageous decision to tell Congress "thanks but no thanks" for that bridge to nowhere up there in Alaska. Yes, you supported the bridge for years until it became a political liability, but we the undersigned taxpayers are happy to overlook that fact if you would just GIVE US OUR $200 MILLION BACK.

See, even though you told Congress "thanks but no thanks" for the bridge, the knuckleheads in Washington -- probably cowed by arm-twisting from your currently indicted Senator Ted Stevens -- apparently didn't get the message. They mistakenly sent you the $200 Million they'd set aside for the bridge anyway. And you mistakenly deposited the check! Don't worry: happens to us all the time. Someone sends a $200 million check by mistake and without thinking, we put it in our checking accounts. No biggee! YOU JUST GIVE THE MONEY BACK and the cops go away. Swear!

You and Senator McCain have made much in the last few days about your opposition to pork, which like President Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy and that war in Iraq that Senator McCain supported, have caused our national debt to balloon to nearly 10 Trillion dollars -- much of it in the form of an IOU to China. The federal deficit in 2008 is estimated to exceed $400 billion! This year alone, your office requested $197 million in additional earmarks for Alaska -- EVEN AFTER CONGRESS MISTAKENLY SENT YOU $200 MILLION.

Folks down here in the lower 48 and Hawaii haven't been so lucky. We taxpayers get a fraction of the pork per capita that you folks in Alaska get. And most of us don't have the good fortune to live on top of huge oil reserves that cover our state and local budgets (and then some!). To borrow a phrase, we're flat busted. SO PLEASE, TAKE OUT THAT ALASKA STATE CHECKBOOK and GIVE US OUR $200 MILLION BACK!!!

When you give us the money back for that bridge you supported before opposing -- we'll drop the whole thing. And you and Senator McCain can get back to talking about Paris Hilton, pigs with lipstick and whatnot while that Obama guy goes on about educating our kids, cutting our taxes and our health care costs, getting us jobs, cleaning up the environment and getting us out of Iraq. (I know: BORing!) It's that simple. So once again, Governor Palin: GIVE US OUR $200 MILLION back!

Sincerely,
THE UNDERSIGNED TAXPAYERS