Re: OT / Financial Papers Show Palins' Assets Top $1 Million

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Financial Papers Show Palins' Assets Top $1 Million
This is so not newsworthy. $1M isn't that much these days when you add in the value of real estate and businesses. And 401(k)s can grow quite nicely with tax-deferred status and employer contributions. Of course, the value of those retirement and investment accounts won't reflect their current value, which is way down at the moment.
I took the most conservative estimate I found, many said "over 2.3 million", and it is newsworthy, in *my* opinion, when one is trying to bill themselves as 'joe six-pack, sitting around the kitchen table trying to pay their bills.'

I also dispute the fact that taxes weren't paid on the per diem of $17,000 and pawning ones expensive *hobby* of snow-machine racing as a *job*.

Again, you'll note by far the majority of posts I've made this week have been 'on topic'. And I did note this one as 'off topic'.
This article states $1M. It sounds like a lot was made from the fishing business before she became Governor. I'm fine with someone running a successful business.

I am sure Obama and Biden have financial assets squirreled away, too.

The $17K sounds like a dispute between tax attorneys with differing interpretation of a tax law. That's not her fault.

Good you marked this OT, since it is.
Notice she also isn't on the list of politicians that got huge contributions from Freddie Fannie. Obama was way at the top along with Kerry and Hillary.

Chocolic

Her financials actually seem reasonable, maybe even modest, for a governor IMO. And she isn't on the top of that contribution recipient list, like all the others you mentioned. I am so sick of Palin-bashing. Many public figures and politicians on both sides bother me for various reasons, but not to the extent that I want to talk about them all the time, esp off-topic on a ng.
Exactly. The McCain/Palin supporters aren't on here picking apart Obama/Biden. Why not give the same respect.

Chocolic

ITA. I could bring up lots of things, as recently as the veep debate and factual mistakes that were made, for instance. I choose not to, and only mention it now to point out that my silence is not due to lack information. I wish others would try some self-restraint as well. Plus there are far cooler things to obsess about, like the best haunted houses to visit this year!

Oh give me a break. You all yapped and yapped on other OT political threads all last week. Check out the 'Palin did okay' thread, or the 'No respite for the wealthy'. Exactly how many *crime* posts did you make in that same time period? I updated on numerous crimes followed. Get off my ass and quit trying to censor my posts. If you don't want to see them, put me in the killfile. I've got GOD and numerous others there myself. If I see threads I don't want to read or participate in, I ignore them. It's usenet, and it's America.



I never said I don't post OT sometimes. And when I responded to the thread about her doing well in the debate it was strictly wrt my suggestion about the source of her prior poor performances. I wouldn't say we yapped and yapped, though - it was a short-lived thread, to which I made 3 postings. Yes, I also responded to the thread about the bailout plan. So what?

I've also posted on-topic to threads re: a large porn ring bust in Spain, the two frozen children, and maybe some Casey Anthony stuff. It's been slow from as far as interesting t-c material goes, I must admit.

I am not trying to censor your posts. I am responding to them. In your case, though, you've been obsessed about Sarah Palin since she was announced as McC's VP, and it's really annoying. I'll say whatever the *** I want to about your posts, because as you point out, it's Usenet, and at least *I* am in America, tho not everyone here is. Likewise, feel free to kf me. It's easier for my to just ignore you when I want to. I will admit, since this seem to have come to a head, that I had a lot more respect for you before all this Palin nonsense began.


Perhaps because Sarah Palin is antipathy to everything the womens movement has fought for these last 40 plus years. I remember a time prior to Roe vs Wade. I don't want her in the business of my daughters reproductive rights nor do I want her views on religion, creationism, animal rights, to name a few, to garner any legitimacy. I certainly don't want her input in the next Supreme Court Judges to be appointed.

As for loss of respect, I don't base my voting opinions on one issue, what is going to happen to *my* money. I have children, grandchildren, who will hopefully live long enough to grow old themselves. I am interested in *their* welfare, their health care, their ability to secure employment and live the american dream. These last eight years have fucked up lots of their prospects for many years to come.


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My point about respect is that in all other matters of t-c posted here you've seemed objective and fair-minded, at least to me, and I held you in high regard for that. In addition I felt you had s lot to offer in the way of a victim's perspective of child abuse, again, offered up objectively.

Wrt Palin, you seem to be so rabidly against her you cannot think straight. I used to consider us friends, but it seems like that's changed since all the negativity directed toward Palin, I believe because I didn't wish to participate.

IMO Palin was going to win or lose the confidence of everyone based on the facts and how she conducted herself. But many, many people choose to spread vicious rumors, many of them personal, the vast majority of which have been refuted, in order to bring her down, instead of letting her do that herself. If she sucked as bad as some people would have you think, she'd crash and burn PDQ. It looked like she was doing that with Gibson and Couric, so it was noteworthy that she did well at the debate. I think that is why it was interesting to briefly discuss here OT. Anyway, I've seen you in the camp that wants to trash her, instead of objectively assessing her performance.

I'm actually quite bummed that things have taken this turn, I used to consider us "friends", such as they are here, but I am at the end of my rope with the Palin-bashing, and it is my impression that several people have written me off for that. So be it.




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