Former half-baked Alaskan Guvnah, Sarah Palin, rebuts President Obama’s state of the union speech
Who’d a thunk that anti-gubmint crusader Sarah Palin would hold up as an example of the entrepreneurial spirit a company that wouldn’t even exist, save the spending of taxpayer dollars?
Palin’s quirky invocation of the “Spudnut Shop” here in Richland Washington as an example of American “can-doism” is far more ironic than you and most of your readers likely realize.
The fact is, the town of Richland was literally built by the federal government as a part of the Manhattan Project. All of the houses that surround the Spudnut shop were built by the Army. To this day, the only employer in Richland of any consequence is the Department of Energy and the contractors that work on DoE contracts at the Hanford site, just north of Richland. As a result, virtually all of the Spudnut shop’s customers are paid by tax dollars. Those that aren’t are retirees, drawing government pensions and social security.
Were it not for government spending, the Spudnut shop would be bankrupt in a week.
Heh. Hoisted on her own petard.
h/t Digby
Just the latest example proving that woman is an idiot.
Far from getting “Palin Fatigue,” I’m convinced that unceasing exposure of her awkward stupidity (any time she’s speaks and is not reading off her hand) is the best way to ensure we stop putting morons in elected office.