Yes, I lived in a trailer park Alberta. I was an Executive Admin for a social service agency. And my bills stemmed from my youngest one's medical costs. Odd huh?
I actually would like to my elected officials live as ordinary folks do, struggling to pay bills and afford medical care but that is just me.
Alberta...while I do understand what you are saying (and I am still researching my facts on the other), I have been homeless (sans car) with children and worked through it. I have owed major debt in the past and been given limited time to pay it off or face horrendous back pay. Bill payments can always be arranged and attending meetings and conferences with small children can be done (even if homeless). Granted, Palin was facing a tough situation but then again so are a lot of people in this country and it is only gonna get worse for some, not better.
I believe that Palin tried to do good but just did not have the experience or knowledge needed to be an effective governor.
What I define as success someone else might define as failure. For me, my successes and failures are "nunyas" to anyone else unless I choose to share with them...
Hi Alberta, I will look up what I can and post it later but as to your question of if I could be governor while my house was being sold out from under me and find an apartment to live, concentrate on the tasks at hand while caring for my children and possibly going into bankruptcy and possibly on food stamps...yes I could.
I faced that situation head on, when our trailer park was being sold to the highest bidder and I had to find a way to either sell my home (which due to the land being sold ~ was now seriously undervalued), give it up and still find a place to live, while working a full-time and providing for my children and paying my bills. I did it. And while I appreciate the situation that Sarah Palin was facing at the time; she was not the only one providing for her family...
You are correct...I was looking at the pin I got for it and hit 8 instead of 9, should really pay attention to the keyboard but brain is dead...'scuse me....
I was not an "insider" John but I was there, I raised my family there, I struggled through four years of no raises due to pay freezes and the closures of much needed social services due to flat-level funding. Have you ever tried to match going wages with what a social service agency is able to afford to pay for skilled professionals? Not an easy task and while I understand that Palin had a hard time in office, I always find it "off" when a politician will make hard and fast promises and then only follow through with the "popular" promises.
I don't believe that Sarah Palin has the necessary experience to run the country (nor did or do I believe that Obama has either). It takes more than being able to "shoot the bull" with the good old boys and being able to talk to the ladies to run a country....
I respect what you have written John but please understand that I was there while Sarah was both mayor of Wasilla and the Governor.
I worked for a non-profit at the time while she was in office as the governor and we had to struggle to get even flat-level funding while she was in office and that was after she had made it a point to state that she would not cut funding for much needed social services programs within the State. Her mission to fight the big oil companies was already in progress (and started by others) before she was sworn into office.
And we both know that being "indicted" with something (whether it is proven to be factual or not) is not something that just "goes away" in the public memory.
While that looks wonderful in the Anchorage Daily News article; she did not really fight corruption and big oil. It looks like she did but all she did was carry on work that was already in the works.
She did start some good things but never really stuck around to see it through and honestly can you really trust that if Sarah Palin was elected the President of the United States that she would not "quit" when the going got tough?
I think for some it is an "ego" thing. Some want to rate everyone very low or very high. Personally, it's just another "toy" in my mind. It doesn't mean anything to me one way or the other.
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