Protesters tell Palin take stimulus funds

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Anchorage Daily News

Dozens of protesters held signs Saturday criticizing Gov. Sarah Palin for turning away federal economic stimulus money they said is vital for education and other services for Alaskans.

"Mama Grizzly, you forgot your cub," said one sign.

"We need a governor, not a presidential candidate," said another.

The protesters staged the demonstration outside the Loussac Library, where Anchorage area state legislators met to hear from constituents.

Many asked for money to fund building projects, or urged passage of particular bills.


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Rep. Craig Johnson gets an earful as pickets greet the Anchorage Legislative Caucus arriving for a hearing with local officials and the general public March 21, 2009, at the Loussac Library.

[pacalo]

1. What a change from the last 8 years: protesters are now out in the streets FOR the president's

policies. Another validation of which party works FOR the people. Corporations may supply the money for their dirty campaigns, but it's the peasants who have the numbers to vote them into & out of office.

I read in the Times-Picayune online last week that Jindal may take the money he initially refused. At the end of the article, I was encouraged by all the negative comments about Jindal. Some who had voted for him are seeing the light.

[JohnWxy]

2. Palin showing she's a good Limbaugh Republikan. Fighting hard to see that Ombama and Dems fail

to fix this Republican Deregulation Depression.

The American Dream Going Down...(thank you, Phil Gramm)

Phil Gramm was the sponsor of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act which legalized Credit Default Swaps - and made them UNREGULATED. CDSs by supposedly making high return Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) safe by insuring the investor against default loss produced an exploding demand for sub-prime loans driving Predatory lenders to beat the bushes for anybody they could sign up to a subprime loan(and falsifying loan applications to get the loan approved). The lenders then flipped the mortgages bundled into CDOs.

Senator Gramm couldn't get the bill out of committee so he slipped it in as rider (much like an ear-mark) to the Omnibus Spending Bill 2000 - a must pass (to keep the Government running) bill (11,000 pages long) which was passed in the final days/hours of the Clinton administration. Virtually nobody in Congress even knew they were voting on a bill which would enable the unregulated trade in a financial derivative that Warren buffet called http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2817995.stm">"financial weapons of mass destruction" (in 2003!).

Derivatives are financial instruments that allow investors to speculate on the future price of, for example, commodities or shares - without buying the underlying investment.

Derivatives generate reported earnings that are often wildly overstated and based on estimates whose inaccuracy may not be exposed for many years.

Outstanding derivatives contracts - excluding those traded on exchanges such as the International Petroleum Exchange - are worth close to $85 trillion, according to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association.

Some derivatives contracts, Mr Buffett says, appear to have been devised by "madmen".

He warns that derivatives can push companies onto a "spiral that can lead to a corporate meltdown", like the demise of the notorious hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management in 1998.

Phil Gramm observed in the fall of 2008 that "America is suffering from a mental recession.".

[David_NSU]

3. completely correct...Palin needs

to think about the people of Alaska instead of looking towards 2012

[barbtries]

9. i don't think she can concentrate

on more than one thing at a time. and in her mind, the priority is NOT with the Alaskan people. it's a real pity.

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[earcandle]

12. This deregulation happened under Clinton's watch?

Don't these people have procedures in place to prosecute
criminal congressmen who slip things in at last minute? 

[Optical.Catalyst]

20. Political victory and personal power are the only things Republicans care about

The needs of the people don't even make the top 10 when it comes to winning an election for the Republicans. Palin would starve the people and drive them into the ground if she thought it would hurt President Obama.

[Ken Burch]

24. Great post, but..."OMBAMBA"?

He's now a mantra?

[Number23]

4. Heck yeah, this gets a rec!

:)

[Arctic Dave]

5. I love my town. :)

[roguevalley]

17. here's her office number if you wanna give her a jingle. I have

twice: 1-907-465-3500

[K8-EEE]

6. K&R!!! Hurray for people for getting out there!

Good job protesters!

[babsbunny]

7. Look at everyone all bundled up to keep warm!

Go Alaska!

[jeff30997]

8. K&R

Palin needs a brain stimulus ASAP.

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[Grinchie]

10. Darn it, I was hoping she'd give her share to Lingle in Hawai'i

Lingle has no qualms about accepting the Stimulus money.

[curiousdemo]

11. Get up off your no good keeter Palin, and

take care of your people. Dam Hillbilly!

[rainbow4321]

13. More pics and info at Mudflats

http://www.themudflats.net/2009/03/21/anchorage-speaks-out-against-palins-rejection-of-stimulus-money/

[PatrynXX]

14. Actions speak louder than words Palin.

Bout fell off me chair when I heard Palin slammed Obama for the Special Olympics gaff. Hello. Sarah. the one with a thick head... your the one turning down money for special needs. Not Obama.

[roguevalley]

18. my wheezer uncle sent me a nauseating email about her, saying

she was a babe and then saying we had babes too, including an unflattering picture of one of our gals. I wrote back and said she was in deep shit up here and crooked as a dog's hind leg, the idiot.

[ColbertWatcher]

19. Isn't this the same woman, who as mayor, snagged all sorts of cash for her tiny, little town?

How much was the sports center?

What else did she get for her tiny town and how much did it cost?

[denem]

21. No schools 4 U

In her tiny town many unwed girls get pregnant, willingly or not. Think of the children!

[Iwillnevergiveup]

22. A woman as cold as her state

whose political fortunes continue to fall, deservedly so.

[Maraya1969]

23. This is great to hear. She won't want protesters following her around

during her presidential run so this could maybe change her mind. Either way the state legislators can overrule her and they are getting an ear full.