PJ: Sarah Palin served one and a half terms as a mayor of a town of less than 7,000 residents, half a term as the public member (who was not required to have knowledge of the industry) of the State of Alaska's Oil and Gas commission (before resigning)and two years of her four year term as governor of the State of Alaska (population 700,000). While governor, Palin sought and achieved the single highest increase of taxes on oil producers that the state has ever seen (called ACES). It is interesting to note that oil producers along with the current governor of the state are trying to repeal this law. In addition, in 2008 Palin claimed to have built the longest most ambitious gas pipeline in north America but to date that pipeline is no closer to beginning construction than it was three years ago.
The once a popular governor received high polling numbers during her first year in office, that approval rating has since fallen to only 33% favourable, 58% unfavourable.
The Daily Mail
Palin warns: the President has a 'lack of experience' in politics and the country risks losing its 'exceptionalism'
By Simon Neville
Sarah Palin has attacked President Obama for having a lack of experience in the private sector or in politics, suggesting if his policies do not change the country could lose its ‘exceptionalism’.
The former Governor of Alaska – herself in that position for just two years before she quit – also said his inexperience is causing untold woes to the economy and accused him of wanting to limit individual state powers.
In the interview for Fox Business she said: ‘See because our president is so inexperienced in the private sector and in government and in actually running anything and making any kind of budget that inexperience has really made manifest in some of the statements he makes.’
President Barack Obama
Sarah Palin
She added he needs to engage in free market principles or ‘time tested truths that work’ by cutting taxes and 'incentivising' big business.
The Alaskan political pundit suggested the country needs to be ‘tapping into our own domestic sources of energy because his [the President’s] naïve and destructive and terrifying anti-oil agenda is going to bring our nation to our knees and his agenda must be stopped and if it isn’t we lose our exceptionalism.’
Alaska is the biggest oil-producing state in the country, extracting more than twice the amount of the second biggest producer, Texas.
She suggested his comments that the Wisconsin protests over Governor Scott Walker’s plans to end collective bargaining was an ‘assault on unions’, shows he wants to limit the amount of power states have.
‘He does interject himself into matters that he cannot back up.’
When asked what she would do in the Wisconsin battles to reduce the $3.6billion budget deficit, she said she would adhere to the 10th Amendment – which says each state should retain its own sovereignty.
‘I believe states need to be respected to make their own decisions and need autonomy… That’s obviously something our President didn’t understand.’
But Obama is probably fairly clued up on the 10th Amendment – having been a senior lecturer in constitutional law until 2004.
One decision Mrs Palin is still unable to provide an answer on is whether she will run for president in 2012, saying any call was still ‘months away’.
‘I’m going to keep chiming in on the issues.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1363510/Palin-warns-President-lack-experience-politics-country-risks-losing-exceptionalism.html
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