Palin "inherited a city with 0 debt, left it with over $22 Million debt.

Dubya, Palin: When you find yourself in a hole, the best thing to do is STOP DIGGING.

Let them get into Office so we have another thing to add to the running list of Dumb Presidents.

Right, because they needed a $14.5 million sports complex built on land they didn't even have a title to, which cost them an extra $1.5 million in legal fees to obtain. That's why they had to raise the taxes.

Now tell me for example, do you build a house with no debt???

Hmm.... Do you build a house on land you don't own???

How do you build nations while providing tax cuts?

Right, because they needed a $14.5 million sports complex built on land they didn't even have a title to, which cost them an extra $1.5 million in legal fees to obtain. That's why they had to raise the taxes.

Actually all they did was start inroads and utilities on the property before the title was cleared.

Sarah Palin built the city's first big sports complex, on time, under budget, and the bond will be paid off two years ahead of schedule.

Much like New York now has a new stadium for the Yankees, Sarah Palin pushed through a much needed sports complex to improve the lives of the people of Wasilla.

Nearing the end of its first full year of operation, the Wasilla Multi-Use Sports Complex is boasting 20 to 50 percent increases in off-ice uses offered at the 102,000 square-foot facility.[4]

Wasilla voters agreed in 2002 to a half-percent increase in the city sales tax to pay off a $14.7 million bond to build the multi-use facility. The project "was completed on schedule and under budget," Mayor Dianne Keller said, and the complex opened its doors March 6, 2004. Sales tax revenue, which can only be used to pay the bond, is coming in faster than expected. Keller said she believes the facility will be paid off at least two years ahead of the 10-year schedule.

Seriously, if a small town mayor's building project budget is the biggest attack point you guys have on Palin, we're looking reeeeally good for November!

Kai: Please provide a link to your info.....

Funny that the hockey mom builds a hockey arena with other people's money. I think she fits right in with the GOP ticket. Typical borrow and spend liberal pretending to be a conservative, just geedubya and friends.

22m in debt for a village of 5000. That's amazingly @!$%#ing large.

Hey NeoCon Ron you are usually pretty strong about defending conservatives would you be willing to fill me in on the question I was asking below. I am not looking for a rude argument just a serious explanation.

22m in debt for a city is actually amazingly small. So I dont get the point of this post?

It's pretty large for a "fiscal conservative" who started with zero debt. Canceling property taxes (benefitting wealthier home-owners) and implementing sales taxes of just about everything is incredibly regressive. It might make sense in a tourist region, not a bedroom community. Such a policy encourages tax flight for those who can travel elsewhere to do their shopping, leaving the poor, senior citizens, stay-at-home moms stuck footing the bill.

Looks like Bush-o-nomics written small.

22m in debt for a city is actually amazingly small. So I dont get the point of this post?

Which means she borrowed $3283 per person, and left them to pay it off. Sounds like the standard deal for the current crop of "conservatives". They should be publicly flogged for calling themselves conservatives.

Honestly, I find her mainly to be social conservative more than anything. If another republican was running for President I would vote for them over McCain any day. I respect McCains experience and military service, but I think we could of had a better choice like .. Tom Coburn for instance. Now the reason why I am voting McCain instead of Barrack is because I feel the Democratic Congress has failed us in every aspect and I don't see Obama making any changes to that.

I can respect that and thanks for your input.

Hey NeoCon Ron :)

Thanks for the answer too, I had the same question. If I may ask a follow up.....

The Democrats have had a slight majority for the past two years, yet it was the Repubs in charge of the Congress for at least the 6 years before that, and the Repubs had the White House, too. How does that factor into your reasoning that you wont vote a Dem into the White House because the Dem Congress failed us?

(I too have been disappointed by the Dem Congress, but I do concede that they DONT have veto over riding power, and that the Repubs where in FULL before that and their actions are why I wont vote Repub again)......

I know we can both agree the economy has not been too good since the war in Iraq, but since the Democrats have taken congress in January 2007 you can see a degrade in the economy ,the housing distaster, and gas prices have become a bigger issue. I mean come on now while our nation has to spend hundreds of dollars a month on gas they sit there and go on vacation for 5 weeks and they still have yet to do anything about the energy crisis.

See article for better details. I'm too tired to type :) www.heritage._org/research/budget/bg2081.cfm (take the _— out at ._org)

I agree that Bush should of used his veto power, but he failed in that. That is no surpise to me. Now I vote for McCain / Palin because I think they will beable to reform and bring the Republicans back into congress in hopes of saving us from this economic disaster just like the republican congress had achieved under Clinton beginning in 1994 after the housing scandals.

Here are some good video releases of Tom Coburn if your interested.

src.senate._gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Senators.Television&Senator_id=9d15187d-b0a9-4a86-87c7-0a1ac69fc09b

(once again take the — out in ._gov)

The Democrats took over congress in 2006, but the they can't do squat with barely a majority and Bush threatening to veto everything. A republican president and a democratic house just means status quo.

Here are some good video releases of Tom Coburn if your interested.

src.senate._gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Senators.Television&Senator_id=9d15187d-b0a9-4a86-87c7-0a1ac69fc09b

(once again take the — out in ._gov)

The man makes me proud to be an Okie!

KRose:

Exactly! I love how people keep saying the Democratic congress has done nothing. Kinda hard to accomplish ANYTHING with a stubborn president and his veto pen.

know we can both agree the economy has not been too good since the war in Iraq, but since the Democrats have taken congress in January 2007 you can see a degrade in the economy ,the housing distaster, and gas prices have become a bigger issue.

Ok, where to start.........let's see, war in Iraq, yep the Dem congress started that. The housing disaster, that was caused by totally irresponsible lending practices that Mr. Bush pushed on the Fed, but what the heck, we can blame that on the Dem congress too, since the chickens came home to roost after they were voted in, that works. Gas prices, it's just a coincidence that an oil boy was in office while they went from $1 a gallon in 2001 to $4+ dollars a gallon.

Good luck with the reform thing. I'm assuming you also believe in the tooth fairy and the easter bunny?

See and that is what is bugging me. If Republicans can't stand him how come they elected him. Did they hold their nose and vote for him because they knew their brand had got tainted by Bush and they figured he was the most moderate, or was it that he was just the best out of the other options. For example why not Huckabee, Palin holds a lot of the same views as Huckabee?

I think the conservatives just like her because she's not Mccain and they really can't stand him. They just want someone to cheer for and they can't really find that in Mccain.

Sarah P is also the religious right's first stealth candidate to hit the big time. They've had a program underway for over a decade now to take over school boards, town councils, etc with True Believers, then move them up the electoral scale. (Virtually any small town in America can point to these; the state of Kansas school board was the previous high-water mark.) All quite legal, but also quite scary as the aims aren't necessarily in the interest of upholding the Constitution.

Thus the outpouring of affection and the willingness to overlook damn near anything questionable in her background so long as she continues to mouth the party line on abortion, evolution, global warming... the whole gamut of anti-progressive issues.

She is a religious nut and they've had far too much influence on OUR government.

If they think McCain will let her have any input in his Presidency, they are sadly delusional. She is his ticket to the Oval Office, he is using her, and once there, he will treat her the way JFK treated Johnson, like a second class citizen. I have to admit, he is doing a pretty good job at hiding his jealousy. Must really suck to be the one running for the Presidency and they want her, not him.

Isabella- You bring up an interesting point here. I could see how it would be true. After all, she has no experience in the Senate. He could totally steamroll her during his Presidency.

He is a Virgo, and they tend to be control freaks. (No offense!)

Shes a hockey mom not a soccer mom. Shes made that point already in her speech ;)

I am a tennis mom, whats the diff?

She thinks she's tougher then you are. Bit of an insult on her part actually.

A little bird told me that hockey moms are not fiscally conservative. I did not care about the facts then, I just keep repeating what the bird told me, and it became TRUE! It works, Rove, your methods are effective! Of course, later on I found that the facts would have told me the same thing, so all that meditation and repetition was quite a waste of time.

A town with a population of 5000 needed a 15 million dollar sports center built on land it didn't even own?

What most are misinformed about is Wasilla is the main hub in the Mat-Su Borough. Yes the city has only about 6500 people but it serves about 80,000 people that live around it. The Borough is about the size of New Jersey! The Borough citizens use the city for most of their shoppping and a lot work in the city. The Sports Complex was voted on by the citizens of Wasilla and is being paid for by a 1/2% (half a cent) sales tax. There was a 2% tax innitiated a couple of years earlier to pay for the police department. The state of Alaska has no tax. Now i want to know how many of you Palin bashers live in a city and or state with only a 2 1/2 percent sales tax and have police, fire protection, garbage collection, city water, city sewer, snow removal, and paved roads to drive on? Get your facts right!

the reason for the low tax, etc is NOT a fiscally conservative Palin, it is the revenue from oil that the state gets a share of. Can someone give me a link to the oil companies related stuff that Palin did? She says she went against big oil, more details would help, that would possibly be the one positive about her as far as I am concerned. Did she do this by means of a windfall profit tax similar to what Obama has suggested? But are the Republicans not totally against that?