PalinTracker: What’s Happening on September 5?
First, catching up on what the Big Guys have to say, then what Palin said in Iowa:
8/20
Karl Rove: Palin will run and will announce sometime around Labor Day. She “has a schedule next week that looks like that of a candidate, not a celebrity.”
John McCain: Palin would be “formidable” in 2012. He also says she has not solicited his advice.
8/21
Frank Luntz: “No room” for Palin in GOP field
8/22
Washington Post: The reasons Sarah Palin wouldn’t run for president.
BigGovernment: Palin v. Obama (Faith in American People v. Faith in Government)
“Game On!” Palin says in Iowa radio ad
8/23
8/24
Bachmann and Palin ahead of Pelosi in Forbes‘ Powerful Women List
8/25
Los Angeles Times: Five reasons why Sarah Palin will run (and five reasons why she won’t)
8/28
Not to be outdone: Eight reasons why Palin should run. Eight reasons why she shouldn’t
Steve Forbes says “Palin will run” in BBC interview
8/30
Palin to speak at NH tea party rally, Labor Day appearance to come 2 days after Iowa speech
9/1
Sarah Palin to visit South Korea – 10/11-13 to keynote a Seoul forum
9/2
Politico: Sarah Palin, the outsider
RealClearPolitics: Palin to rip “Crony Capitalism” in Iowa speech
Palin says “there’s room for more”
9/3
She didn’t announce, but she didn’t say no. Instead, she told us what she believes and will fight for.
Yesterday she told a crowd of mostly older folks that entitlement reform is inevitable.
The crowd stopped cheering. She did not back down.
She’s running.
Those older (I’m one of them) folks are being brain-washed about what the word ‘entitlement’ means.
Hint: It does not mean Social Security folks.
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Here’s the text of an email making the rounds lately – notice the eyeopening totals mentioned. I didn’t do the math but it’s probably pretty close to the truth. Entitlement my ass!!! I’ve been paying into this Ponzi scheme for many years and just started getting some payback – I intend to get lots of payback!
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Remember, not only did you contribute to Social Security but your employer did too. It
totaled 15% of your income before taxes. If you averaged only $30K over your
working life, that’s close to $220,500. If you calculate the future value of
$4,500 per year (yours & your employer’s contribution) at a simple 5% (less
than what the govt. pays on the money that it borrows), after 49 years of
working (that was me) you’d have $892,919.98. If you took out only 3% per year,
you’d receive $26,787.60 per year and it would last better than 30 years (until
you’re 95 if you retire at age 65) and that’s with no interest paid on that
final amount on deposit! If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year,
you’d have a lifetime income of $2,976.40 per month. The folks in
Washington have pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madhoff ever had.
Entitlement my ass, I paid cash for my social
security insurance!!!! Just because they borrowed the money, doesn’t make
my benefits some kind of charity or handout!! Congressional benefits, aka.
free healthcare, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays,
three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days, now that’s welfare,
and they have the nerve to call my social security retirement entitlements?
K.T. the government didn’t borrow our social security. they stole it under lyndon baynes johnson in 1964 to finance the vietnam war so they wouldn’t have to raise taxes, I was in the Air Force at the time, and you are so right about us paying for it I paid in to it untill I turned 73 years old. the politicians should be jerked off of the cushy retirement plan they have voted themselves and be forced to contribute to and retire on social security as we do,
There’s a lot of truth to this post. Some great commenter, I think at AT, shared this link to an excellent American Spectator piece by Robert Patterson (a real eye-opener!) in which he makes this same key distinction between Medicare and SS, and the huge number of real entitlement programs (he calls them “means-tested welfare”). He writes that: “These 185 overlapping programs across six federal departments — as counted by Peter Ferrara of the Carleson Center for Public Policy — account for no less than half of current federal deficits.”
http://spectator.org/archives/2011/08/19/what-would-reagan-cut#
I think this is a critically necessary and long overdue “unbundling” that needs to be made relentlessly, in every venue where the entitlement topic is raised. It makes a great antidote to the libs’ deliberate “they want to starve Granny” conflation.
Speaking of being brain-wahed, K.T., relax; if you’re over 55 you won’t be affected. You’ll still get your monthly check. As for you readers that are under 55, you will have to work longer depending on how much under 55 you are. In other words, someone who is 21 years old today, will probably live to be 95. There is not enough money in the coffers to enable you to retire at the traditional age of 65 and live off of others who work for the last 30 years of your life. Start putting money in a 401K.
Of course that assumes that we let Congress keep giving the Social Security Trust Fund IOU’s every year for the money they steal from it.
“I paid cash for my social security insurance!!!!”
KT, Unfortunately, you paid for someone ELSE’S Social Security. Your money is long gone, and you’re getting/will get paid from what we’re paying in. We recognized 20 years ago that the system will collapse way before my husband and I want to retire, so we’ve been putting away money for our retirement while supporting you in your retirement. It’s very expensive, supporting a bunch of retirees and we’re just not sure we can afford all those winter homes in Destin any more.
That’s why people call it a Ponzi/pyramid scheme. You’re arguing for it to continue until you get paid fully, but that just means that Dave and I have to shell out still more.
“John McCain…says she has not solicited his advice.”
And exactly WhyTF should she????????
I’m not sure she’d be my first choice, but she is a good choice, and electable. O, let’s not damn any of our hopefuls with the faint praise that they’re better than the incumbent; a dead possum would be a better president than Sock Puppet.
PsychoDad you are so very right. and she is my main choice and has been since she burst on the scene as Johns running mate. the roles should have been reversedm I find it hard to beleive so many IDIOTS voted for an
John McCain is a demented old fart who should never have been in any position of public trust. He was also one of the main cheerleaders for the Clintons’ wrongheaded war against the Serbs, in which the US and NATO fought on behalf of the local branches of al Qaeda in the Balkans. The upshot is that we are now stuck with a Muslim terrorist stronghold in the Balkans, and nobody in either party seems to want to admit that we made a mistake that we must undo.
Of course she is running.
She started the day after she resigned from the Governorship in Alaska. The funny thing is, the other candidates won’t know what hit them. There is no one else in the race who can come close to commanding the kind of crowds she can. Over 2,000 stand for hours in the pouring rain to hear her talk about crony capitalism? Would even 20 people listen to any of the other candidates talk about anything?
The flood of adhom attacks will keep on coming from all sides. But she has an excellent base platform, a huge core of supporters, all the energy and is in it to win.
Time to pop the popcorn. Should be fun.
..Oh and that line about polls being for strippers and skiers was comedy gold.
There’s also the ten-foot variety!
But seriously, there are polls for public consumption that are intended to create a “bandwagon” effect for policies or candidates somebody wants to push, and there are internal polls that tell candidates how well they are actually doing. There’s a big difference!
Do you mean to say they she can draw bigger crowds than Ron Paul? [end sarcasm]
Wow! a terrific speech. Sarah has a record of reform, which is why the Republican establishment doesn’t like her. And she’s creates excitement among her supporters that no other candidate can match, which is why the Dems fear her.
Michelle and Herman are good candidates. Perry is good, but weak on the border
and has met with the Bilderberg’s in Turkey which is why I can’t trust him.
So Run, Sarah run. We need you.
We don’t need Sarah – unless we want to lose. Michelle and Herman are fringe candidates and so ultimately is Palin. She has no idea how to talk to the middle of the country and preaches only to the choir. If you want to reelect Obama, fine. I don’t.
Yes, America needs Palin. No one on the radar is as tough as she is. And the next president had better be tough.
She talks about ‘crony capitalism.’ And her record says she has fought that, successfully, in Alaska (big Oil, people??). Now, think of all the money that will flow towards Perry, who looks to me like he is fundamentally weak. Cain? He should be vice president.
It’s time to turn things around, away from the Niagara Falls we are all heading for.
Couldn’t agree more!
And in a speech with many great lines, surely the best was, “I am not for sale.”
And to think we can actually believe it!! GO Sarah!
Even Ed Gillespie was on FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace stating that her idea on Crony Capitalism was something all the other candidates needed to adopt going forward. Stealing her ideas and yet she is unelectable. I can’t wait for her to announce even though I think she has already told her supporters with all kinds of hints and thingeys but letting the news medai droop and drool and chase their tails to see what she is going to do next. RUN SARAH RUN.
heathermc I agree 150%. I think Herman Cain would make a very good Vice President.
Ooooh, Palin/Cain? Now I’M tingling.
OK – so lets elect a RINO eh?
Forget it! I’ll never vote for one. I’m done with compromising my principles.
We get the giverment (my term for Obama government) we deserve – if the best the GOP can come up with is another RINO who is indistinguishable from McCain in policy then we may as well race across the line of total annihilation with Obama as with any of the RINOs. All we’d be doing with the likes of a Romney is drive over the cliff at 50 instead of 100. How can that help?
I hear many of you saying how ‘even a RINO’ would be better than Obama.
I’ll put it in pure unmitigated language – BULLSHIT!
In my lifetime, I never thought it possible that we would elect a President who does not love America, but wants to “transform” it. We may disagree with policies and politics over the years, but I have never, ever felt that our President was deliberately, willfully destroying this nation, or would even harbor such a thought. Until Obama.
No matter who the Republican candidate is, I will vote for him or her. I hope for a solidly conservative candidate, but I will vote for anybody who runs against the Marxist.
There will not be a second chance to fix this. It will be too late, if it is not already.
I’m in your camp, Henry, for the same reasons. I believe it’s much later in the game than we think.
McCain favored most of the bad stuff that Obama pushed through, so what would have been the difference?
A “moderate Republican” is a Democrat who came in the “big tent”.
I’m with you Henry. I will vote for ANYBODY over the imbecile-traitor Obama. And I think that well over half of the country is with us on that. The question is: Who do we want to lead us in rolling back Obamacare & Obamanomics? Sure, a can of chili will be a step forward. But we need a Reagan to get this ship aright again. Palin is the closest thing we have to a Reagan. She is honest. She is a proven reformer. And she has grit. Who else in the GOP pack can match her on that? Perry? What do we know about Perry? Sure, I’ll back him if he’s the nominee, but I want someone with a vision and the nerve to hammer it home.
— Charles Martell sez: A “moderate Republican” is a Democrat who came in the “big tent”.
Okay. And I will take him over a flat-out radical leftist like Obama.
But I’m thinking it won’t come to that. Not this time.
>>She has no idea how to talk to the middle of the country and preaches only to the choir.
Now that’s an odd contradiction. Sounds like “the choir” she preaches to are the elitist coastal types — not quite what I think of as Sarah’s “choir”! She constantly speaks to the middle of the country, and they love her.
By the way, I know a few coastals who love her, too.
Yes, she has fans on the coasts.
I figured she would announce yesterday, but was wrong.
So, fearlessly, I switch my guess to tomorrow.
Heh, patience. Yesterday’s speech was a response to an invitation. Although I’m sure that crowd would have loved it if she had made the surprise announcement, perhaps it was more appropriate for her to deliver an affirmation of Tea Party principles rather than turn it into a political event about herself.
Nancy it’s people with you’r line of reasoning who caused us to wind up with the CLOWN prince we have in the oval office right now,
in 1980, Reagan ran on the basic of theme of Getting the Federal Government Off Our Backs. The polls throughout that year had him consistently losing to Jimmuh, sometimes by ridiculously huge margins. On the eve of the election, the polls pointed to a virtual tie (much as in 2004). But of course Reagan won in a landslide. Obama will try to avoid debating Palin as much as he possibly can, just as Carter did with Reagan. But as with Reagan, Palin will need only one debate to unmask this mental-lightweight socialist. The only way the Republicans could possibly lose to Obama this time around is if they put up another dithering, gentleman RINO, like Huntsman.
PattyMor, I tend to agree with you (I’ve been a “Palin-West in ’12″ guy for some time, now), but for God’s sakes, lose the “Bilderberg” business. Leave that kind of crackpottery to the Ronpaulites, or better yet, the Laroucheites.
We’ve got enough real problems without seeking out weird imaginary hobgoblins like “Bilderbergers”.
Trust me, PattyMor, you have other fish to fry. (Or at least you ought to.)
I wish you were right, but I am not so sure that the group who allowed the child prince to run and win in 2008 aren’t made up of a bipartisan group of money interests who sometimes show up at a conference known as the Bilderberg Group. They aren’t just interested in sharing big thoughts. Someone out there is pushing the US toward a totalitarian government and these guys are as likely a group as anyother.
Trust me the ones I have run into in life, you should be afraid of. If you aren’t you either can’t see the entire game or you aren’t paying attention.
“….and these guys are as likely a group as any other.”
This is what passes for serious political analysis? Lord help us….
C’mon, Nickel, we’re never going to elect Palin (or anybody else half decent, for that matter) with this kind of laughably random nonsense.
The “Someone out there” that you correctly identify, that “is pushing the US toward a totalitarian government” exists alright, but you don’t have to seek such esoteric bugaboos as the hapless “Bilderbergers” to find him — From the Post-American-In-Chief down through all the leftist statists in his Democrat party and their lefty foot soldiers in the culture, academia and the media, he’s right here at home — staring you in the face.
Don’t go searching for phantom enemies — we’ve got enough real ones to deal with, and you can confront them up close and personal the next time you’re in a polling booth.
Thank you. I’m sick of hearing supposedly rational people carrying on about the Bilderbergers.
And speaking of phantom bugaboos I suppose you don’t think the American Communist Party exists either?
Well, “Jack Jolis”, just a thought but what exactly do you think the Bilderberg Group is organized to do? Share cooking recipes? You might not believe there is anything sinister or threatening to a secret group of the world’s financiers meeting in undisclosed meetings to discuss policy direction without consideration of the sovereign members of this Republic, but I find it both worthy of further study and curious that you and others seem to want to stifle any mention of their actions.
You go Patty, regardless of the scorn that others want to level on you because of your mention of the potential threat of the Bilderberg Group you keep speaking out. They are as real as the American Communist Party and I can attest to you personally that that group is active and has been for at least fifty years in the United States. There are many powerful factions in the world and many of them do not have the best interest of the American people foremost in their plans. Until I see some evidence to the fact that the miraculous election of such a hard left wing leader as Barack Obama wasn’t sanctioned by powerful forces of both parties I will remain suspcious of those who pull the strings of our Central Bank and the Bilderberg Group has many of them in it’s sitting membership.
Don’t let those who claim to have superior knowledge bluff or intimidate you into silence.
The point is: has she the numbers to win the primaries ?
I doubt that, but I could be wrong.
As a candidate, she will be able to shake the discussion and she will be able to avoid that the establishment of the GOP takes again control of the campaign.
And the more Americans hear from her, the more chances she will have in a future campaign, 2016, 2020.
Of course, first we need to fire the present administration of commie zombies in November 2012.
The big tease isn’t going to run. Vote Bachmann!
BTW I never listen to anyone’s opinions of Michele Bachmann, pro or anti, if they don’t have the brains ir decency to spell her name right. It’s one “L” in Michele and two “N”s in Bachmann. Get it straight America!
Thanks, Ms. Curtis, for your accurate and complete coverage of Sarah Palin’s Iowa speech. You are not lying by commission, omission, or slanting.
What a refreshing contrast to what’s going on over at WSJ, ad hominem (or taking a cue from Churchill’s nickname for the beloved nurse he called “Womany,” we might better say ad womanim). People speaking out as though they are experts when it’s clear they have no knowledge of “the facts of her case.” One person (to be fair, in this instance “just” a commenter)actually wrote that “all candidates face the same media,” so we shouldn’t blame the press, completely oblivious to how they are being manipulated. Talk about a parallel universe! I had to jump back over here for a shot of reality. To think I used to trust it for its reportage—Yikes!!
I cut a portion off the first sentence, which should read:
What a refreshing contrast to what’s going on over at WSJ, ad hominem (or taking a cue from Churchill’s nickname for the beloved nurse he called “Womany,” we might better say ad womanim) attacks, incomplete facts or coverage to the subject’s detriment.
Yes, the Iowa speech was good. But the voice needs attention! If she is to have any chance at all, then a voice coach is essential. THe voice must be toned down. It at times painful to listen to.
For God’s sake, Martin, stop spewing that lefty garbage. That talking point lost its zeal months ago….
Martin I would wrather hear her than hear obama stuttering and stammering without his teleprompter to guide him,
Palin will set the debate agenda whether she runs or not. Her charge of Corporate Crony Capitalism capitalism is a game changer. It once was the legitimate charge against Republicans; it is now equally damaging to both parties. Her energy policies are diametrically opposed in D.C. but this alone can turn our economy around; America is blessed with centuries of fossil fuels and uranium, almost unique on the planet. Her policies on the return of authority to the states is universally popular.
She has massive negatives, but it is difficult to see how more original dirt can be thrown at her, the MSM muck rakers increased the Alaskan population last time. I see several months of speeches, then back room deals at Thanksgiving time. If Obama does not drive unemployment down to 6-7 % by then, Dems will start jumping ship. He might face a challenger.
Change is certain. Hope, less so.
The only thing that can stop Sarah is the jealousy of other women who won’t pull the lever for a woman with more sex appeal than they have.
This is such a ridculous and childish statement and I am so tired of hearing it. It is no different than the left spewing “if you don’t vote for Obama you’re a racist”. I am not voting for someone based on their “sex appeal” or whether or not they need a voice coach or if they are or are not attractive.
This election is about the survival of this country not sex appeal!
Good grief, tht old canard?
The Republican nominee must be someone who is already the Base, so that the Base will maintain it’s enthusiasm and trust them when they move to the center in the general election. Sarah is the Base
Every week I encounter more people who are ‘Closet Palinistas’. People who on one hand are reluctant to speak out and be branded, given the evisceration Sarah has received, but on the other hand are committed and are willing to do anything and everything it takes to get her elected should she choose to run.
I think her charge against crony capitalism will resonate surprisingly well with centrists and many liberals as well.
If she chooses to run, I think the powerful groundswell of support for her will surprise many.
The following blog post is super juicy. It looks like they are going to start fighting back. http://mittromneycentral.com/2011/09/04/misguided-freedomworks-protests-romneys-tea-party-appearance/ It’s about time somebody took on these counter-productive ignoramuses!
If FreedomWorks gets their way, President Obama is going to get re-elected… Can’t we all just allow the candidates speak and let people decide for themselves!
I always laugh when I see comments that say Palin does not appeal to the middle. She is a populist. The average Joe is her base.
Try reading the excerpts aloud to yourself. Very good stuff. That was a campaign speech, and also a very good policy statement. The girl is really good.
I do hope she runs. Every time I get tired of waiting for her to declare yea or nay, she lets loose with something like this speech. (sigh) I do not hear this kind of stuff from the other candidates. Still waiting, and getting frustrated. The field is not set until she declares. She is just too big to ignore.
I think Sarah Palin is fantastic and trust her words completely. Her bare honesty is a true treasure! If she runs, I will give her my vote.
Good speech, good ideas. With all due respect, I think Rove has a point, either get in or get out. Just my opinion, Palin is undermining her credibility as a candidate with this “tippy-toe” act. Her approach makes her look unserious and that is unfortunate. Is her defense going to be that she dithers less than Obama? Accurate but not compelling.
Forget about Bachmann, we don’t need a great speaker. What has she accomplished in the House? The more the media keeps on Sarah’s every utterance, the more I like Sarah. Hope she hurries up and decides.
What has she accomplished in the House? She couldn’t stop Obamacare, but she made sure the American people knew what was going on.
What else did she accomplish? She actually finishes out her terms.
I don’t know if a three-term Congresswoman trumps a half-term Senator (Obama)or a half-term Governor(Palin), but I do know that nobody wants a President who quits after two years because “only dead fish go with the flow”.
Authentic! I am soooooooooo sick of politicians! Sarah speaks truth! Period! Even if you don’t like what she says, you have to respect her willingness to say what she honestly believes!
If Obama has been studying Reagan then Palin has been studying Alinsky. Obama is gong to be weak, very weak but he is going to be incredibly well financed in part thanks to crony capitalism and very well organized so he will only be a pushover if there is a real alternative in the race. Right mittle-america ain’t happy with their ruling class and for good reasons so a populist attack from the right is the way to go and Palin sucks the air right out of every room she enters. The liberal media cannot ignore her (which would be the right tactic if they want her to lose) anymore than a wino can pass up a wet cork.
From a strictly political point of view the old adage, “I do not care what they say about me as long as the spell my name right” is sound advice for any candidate running without the bully pulpit of the White House and a billion dollar campaign chest. Palin turns her liabilities into assets by shear force of personality. She also has the advantage that she has been as thoroughly vetted as an candidate in history. If there was even a hint of dirt tp be had the liberal media would have it by now.
I think she is running and I think she will announce very soon. I think she will be met with very high negatives and very fervent supporters and I think she surprise her detractors and shape the coming contest whether she wins or loses the primary. I also think if she wins the primary she will win the general election.
This is a good analysis. I also think that what we’ve seen unfolding, contrary to those who seem convinced she’s deliberately cultivating celebrity status only to enrich herself and her family, are the actions of a single-minded person who has steadily and creatively pursued every avenue open to her to build her own war chest so that she can run her own campaign, according to her own lights, beholden to no one.
God bless her and may she go from strength to strength.
Sarah will wait couple of week to make sure no one else enters. She wants to be the last one to announce and get all the attention till Iowa.
Palin will run if she thinks it’s best for America. She said that long ago and I cannot doubt that she means what she says. I truly believe she has been waiting to let the GOP field set itself. She knows she could hurt the Take America Back movement in this most crucial election or be its strongest voice, a terrifying decision to have to make!
Somehow, spending her life in the Great Outdoors and less populated regions of this vast land, she still fiercely loves this country. She believes in America. Most of us city slickers are jaded. As a child of the Greatest Generation and the post-WWII pride and confidence, it has saddened me over the years to watch our country decline. I used to consider myself a fighter, but I guess like many others, I’ve just gotten tired. Sarah Palin has given me an adrenalized jolt of hope and a much-needed kick in the pants to get up and DO something.
She will run now or run later, whatever her true blue heart tells her to. No matter what, she will be America’s Cheerleader, inspiring us with her energy and fighting spirit to Change It Back.
First of all,,, I like Sarah Palin, I have liked her ever since she winked at me 2 years ago at the national convention. She’s a real fireball!
However her speech, (which I have now watched twice), leans heavily on “Drill Here, Drill Now”, energy independence theme; let the pipelines and refineries be built, etc., all good stuff IMHO. But,,, there is a big “But” in there that I think most people missed. Energy related jobs are high paying for a good reason, no one wants that lifestyle. I’ve spent a lifetime in the energy industry and can tell you 1st hand that it is not for everybody. Energy exploration involves a gypsy lifestyle, you are always out of town, working out in the boondocks, living in cheap motels on less than generous per diem, eating cafe meals everyday, and 12 hour work days in all kinds of weather are not uncommon. Working on a drilling rig is no better, typically there are 2 shifts, called “Towers”, one day shift and one night shift, each are 12 hours long. Not to mention it’s hard, physical, and often dangerous work. Not suitable for the weak of heart. If you factor in the rigors of the off-shore side of the drilling business things really get tricky.
Pipeline work is also something that requires the willingness to travel cross country as the pipeline crawls across the landscape of various States, living in camp trailers is the norm. Add to this agenda are the skills required. Being a certified welder qualified to put together two pieces of pipe that will not leak is an art not taught in any high school I know of. Heavy equipment operators, the techs who x-ray the pipe welds, fields suppliers, over-the-road truckers who deliver the pipe to the job sites, almost none of these guys get home very may nights a month. The men who do this job are a very special breed, they get paid very well because they don’t exist in large numbers.
Of course there are a number of “office” jobs in the energy business, other than paper shufflers and secretarial jobs, the real nuts and bolts of energy exploration and production office jobs require advanced degrees in geology, geophysics, and business management. Most of those guys are already employed and the oil companies can’t find enough qualified people to fill existing vacancies. There won’t be many new white collar jobs created in the offices, at least not on the scale America needs right now. On the other hand, if you have a degree in geophysics or geology you can get a nice 6 figure offer with terrific perks with just a phone call. Most likely you’ll have to move to Texas or Oklahoma to accept the job, but it will pay very well.
How many qualified unemployed folks does anyone think are out there?
Refineries are mostly automated affairs these days. I live in a refinery town and know many of the supervisors who work there, the last time Citgo placed an advertisement to hire operators they had over 2,000 applicants to fill 6 positions. Chemical plants and refineries pay their people well, the problem is that a brand new major refinery will not generate 500 jobs,,, more like 300, max. The refinery upgrades and major maintenance work, called “turn arounds”, are done by subcontractors using temp workers. Even these positions require skills, ie., welders, pipefitters, etc. The rest is day labor minimum pay jobs.
Besides, major reform will be needed to get rid of the EPA and the DOE or none of this will ever happen anyway.
I love Sarah Palin and I love the idea of energy independence, but to think the oil and gas industry will solve America’s unemployment problem is on par with believing in the Tooth Fairy and Santa Clause.
You’re kidding, right? Oil jobs are hard and dirty? So is picking up garbage and laying brick. Are you suggesting we give up on those jobs, too? What the heck next?
You might want to expand drilling for oil and think of all the rest of the jobs that arise out of it. The oil doesn’t just stop where it’s drilled, you know. Sheesh!
Bricklayers and city sanitation workers get to go home and kiss their kids and sleep in their own beds every night. Oil industry workers don’t. As I said, it’s a lifestyle that doesn’t appeal to a lot of men.
I suggest anyone who is unskilled but in good physical condition and willing to work 80 hours a week go down and apply for a frack hand position with Halliburton or one of the other oil field service companies. The position generally requires that you have a CDL with some experience with OTR semi-tractor trailers and can pass a 6 panel drug screen. If you don’t have a CDL they will they will start you at a lower hourly rate of pay and give you 6 months from date of hire to get the CDL and will probably pay you back for the cost of training. At least that was the procedure when I worked there. Once hired, even the lowest man on the frack crew will make over 100K per year. You will likely be away from home 12 days out of 14 and be subjected to regular DOT drug testing, that’s the hard part for a bunch of workers these days. I’ve seen lots of men piss away a good paying career simply because they couldn’t say no to recreational drugs and got caught in a random drug test. Personal knowledge; the Halliburton camp in Alice, Texas employes about 300 men and suffers a typical 10% turnover rate. They are always hiring.
Good luck
Working in the oilfields to solve unemployment is not the bottom line of “drill baby,drill” That would be energy independence so we’re not held in shackles to every piss ant despot in the world. Maybe after that is undertaken the Governor can begin to tackle the death of American manufacturing and the alliance between politicians, unions and crony capitalists. You sound like a smart cat about oil exploration, but you’re missing the forest for the trees. Even if Sarah Palin’s ideas are still in embryonic stages they beat the hell out of the evil musings of the great pretender in the Oval office.
Now that is a leader. I knew the best man would step forward to lead this great nation out of the valley of death. I just hadn’t realized that God was sending a woman this time.You go Sarah.
The last thing either the Democrats or the Republicans want is a real leader to show the public how they are being taken to the cleaners by the band of Ivy League crooks in Washington.
Very easy to understand Sarah Palin: It’s We The People vs. We The Elite People.
Crony capitalism = We The Elite People. RNC, DNC, Wall Street and MSM have very visceral, fundamental stakes in 2012 Elections.
Sarah Palin, Tea Party blocs threaten this cadre of Elitists’ existence. To wit: Sarah Palin decimated (legally and above board) the Elite government corruption entrenched in Alaskan politics. She’ll do the same in her two terms in office as President…this has Elites “circling the wagons” around an “oracle of Omaha” type mollycoddling of the RNC, DNC, Wall Street and MSM.
Vote this 2012 because massive fraud, as never before seen in Our USofA, will be visited upon every precinct, section, parrish and State electoral college candidate. God Bless America! Vote Sarah Palin.
Finally, at last, we have a true non-fiction depiction of Sarah Palin that all Americans should go and see with the new documentary, “Sarah Palin: You Betcha!” This is the Sarah Palin that America has been witnessing for the past 3 years but is too ignorant to notice thus always looking the other way. I truly hope this documentary will cast a light on the true Sarah Palin for all to see, as I have truly see her for who she is – a vindictive, narcissistic, petty, un-informed, narrow-minded, money-grubbing, attention-hungry, knowledge-lacking miserable excuse of a human being. Did I miss out on anything else? Please feel free to add further comments if you will.
Slime, Sleaze, and Levi Johnston
Levi Johnston is the kind of guy a girl should bring home to meet the family–but only if the family would beat the living daylights out of him. The reader may recall Levi, the handsome, young high school student who transformed himself into a vile snake to gain fame and make a buck.
Todd and Sarah Palin of Wasilla, Alaska and their young daughter, Bristol, were evidently taken in by Johnston in more ways than one. The Levi-Bristol relationship has become common knowledge: pre-marital teen sex, pregnancy, Baby Tripp, and two engagements, both of which Bristol broke off.
Following Tripp’s birth, Bristol worked, attended school, took care of their child, became a spokeswoman for teen sexual abstinence, advocated against abortion, wrote a “memoir,” Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far, and finished as a finalist on “Dancing with the Stars.”
Johnston decided he didn’t want to get his hands dirty in the Alaskan oil fields and opted for a career as a male model/actor and, since that objective wasn’t panning out too well, embarked on a mission to smear the Palin family. He, too, wrote a book, a yet-to-be-released tome with the slanderously-loaded title, Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin’s Crosshairs.
It was hardly his first excursion into smearing, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5445.)
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With respect, would you kindly share some specific sites or citations with us of any announced candidates who have said these things:
http://www.sarahpac.com/posts/governor-palins-speech-at-the-restoring-america-tea-party-of-america-rally-in-indianola-iowa-video-and-transcript
Get thee hence troll. YOU dismissively call it down homesey appeal. We call it common sense, which to the elite seems magical wisdom because they have neither. Based on the dumbass media’s emotions-run-amuck visceral reaction to Palin, I’d say she’s our best ticket out of the hellish nightmare you “intellectuals” have put us in by electing the idiotic, no common sense, never ran a business or held a real job America-hating foreigner that people of your average to below-average intellect have put in the White House. As John Galt said, “Get the hell out of our way!”
As Sarah said, we are the people who pay our taxes, grow our food, run our small businesses, teach our young , and fight our wars. Don’t you DARE dismiss our “down home” intelligence and know-how as inferior to empty-worded Washington rhetoric. Who’s the fool?
My vote is for you to use your caps when needed, not just when it comes to spelling Ron Paul.