Cutting budgets

A number of people have started hitting Palin for calling herself a friend of families with disabilities when she cut the states special ed funding by more than half. I would just add the little piece of context she did so at a time when her state had a surplus of $5 billion thanks to the $4 gas the rest of us have been paying into their state coffers. Just imagine what she would do if they had a deficit like Washington.

In a related note, that she and her state continue to suck in more earmarks than any other state - and no matter how many times she lies and says she opposed the Ketchiwan bridge, the truth is as mayor she invented the tradition of hiring lobbyists to bring in earmarks - at a time when the country and most states are facing major budget deficits singularly disqualifies her and anyone else from alaska for any position near fiscal or energy policy. We may as well let the Saudis run it.