Every DUer should be able to answer: Name the most SOCIALISTIC STATE in this country.

You know.....the one that SHARES certain revenues with every citizen of that state for the common good in that state.

Come on, DU...let's see every one of you score perfectly on this. Especially since I am quite certain most Republicans at that convention would FAIL....BIGTIME.

What do I win?

hundreds of villages with no roads.
hundreds of villages with no sewer system- pouring poo into a lagoon is what they are forced to do.
hepatitis and tb are epidemic in some places.

name a state with fewer roads and infrastructure

Name a state that no one gave a damn about until oil was found.

name a state with as many provisions in their constitution for their people as alaska

name a state smart enough to set aside land for the vulnerable so that their needs could be taken care of -- trust lands

name a state that was SMART ENOUGH to work out a way to put their resource income into a fund that not only is for the future but pays dividends to the people who live there to help them get along because:

everything is shipped in... food, clothing, widgets, doo-dads, everything.

food in some villages costs four times what you pay now.

Milk in Barrow tops eight dollars. The villages have the highest fuel costs in America.

It costs some villages $2100.00 a month to heat their houses. Each.

Alaska is wonderful, filled with wonderful far-sighted people. We are going to be fifty years old next year and we've done damned good. Hate Palin, leave the rest of us alone.

Socialist? If taking care of your people with a bit of the surplus is that, then good. By the by, the dividend pays each alaskan 2069$ and add a 1200$ energy dividend to help with heating and we are doing pretty good for a while. Remember, we pay taxes on that money.

Why not make use of it? More states should be that "socialist" IMO.

communist but that was then, not now. You could go to jail.

alaska? Do I get a mooseburger now? :hi:

Is that woman loyal to anything but herself? I guess she's the Big Dipsh*t.

When the State shares in the profits of Big Oil. What a concept...wonder why we can't do that in the other 49 States?

for private profit?

:rofl:

"Let's Hear it for Futures Speculation / Manipulation - Hip Hip..."

Come on guys - its all in your mind

I'm pumping my $3200 dividend into the Obama Camp after all ;-)

into the FEDERAL TREASURY on our little PFDs and rebates. Come on, you guys. We're helping to support you, too.

That makes it #3 in money received from the Federal Government.

NY on the other hand receives $0.79 per dollar sent at #42.

Not exactly the most convincing argument you have.

I'm just saying

2005 list

(2005 is the latest year I could find data for.)

Regards

What can I say? I'm just sorry the rest of you don't have such a system.

I find it somewhat amusing when from a Republican point of view it's perfectly fine for them to get a check but the rest of us shouldn't.

Plenty of red states who always claim to be so self sufficient also get a lot more money from the federal government than they pay in taxes. But somehow they don't see it as unfair when it benefits them

Regards

Sarah Palin has been called a "socialist" by several members of her own party for her $1200 energy rebate to us this year (that's on top of our permanent fund dividend check). Sarah Palin a socialist. Now, THAT'S falling down on the floor funny.

red state?

look at the bottom states....they're almost all blue

wonder why that is......

federal supplements (pork) per person than any other in the union?

We pay taxes too that seem to go to your state and we don't get that royalty check.


Of course, I like being able to go to the store and paying $4 plus a gallon for milk and sunshine and night when they are supposed to happen and not such cold weather. ;)

Difference is:

Palin taxes oil profits of corporations, who still make a killing on it. She cuts checks directly to the citizens in order to score political points.

Chavez considers oil a state resource and uses money from its sale to help the citizens indirectly by funding roads, literacy, clinics, etc.

"Chavez considers oil a state resource and uses money from its sale to help the citizens indirectly by funding roads, literacy, clinics, etc."

And yet we act like we are ashamed of Chavez, let alone Fidel. WHY.

Are we "half" committed or what?

Does Secretary of Energy have to be a US Citizen?

OBAMA ARE YOU LISTENING??? Appoint a REAL oilman to your cabinet.

a long time ago. she has nothing to do with it.

of oil company profits which it taxes.......lets see not Texas,not Louisiana...must be a state with a population less that Puerto Rico...could it be the heart of secessionist politics Alaska.

The idea that the citizens of a state have a stake in its natural resources makes sense.

However... it's pretty easy to see how the loyalty of citizens can be bought off with a check.

When socialism fails, it's because people are greedy and corrupt.

a more thriving homeland.

It's amazing that the RWingnuts are in such denial and so easily manipulated by the soundbites their masters feed them.

Those rugged individualists, they have so much in common with the Ayerabs.

n/t

Or just one as its governor?

New York seems to have a much stronger welfare network then AK.

Where else can they get something for nothing?

Do some study on the subject and you won't appear such a fool.

"socialist", I mean? Pubes spinning it, I suppose

socialism in the least, let alone the most.

People in alaska are paid dividends from earnings derived from their "Permenent Fund". They are paid a dividend check which is quite capitalistic IMO. Oil money is not involved at all.

gtha.

No, just kidding. Alaska.

Please don't EVER compare Massachusetts with Alaska. Many thanks. :)

THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF ALASKA!!!! WOO-HOO! WE RULE!

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I credit our state's founding fathers with writing a really wonderful Constitution which made this an "owner state," and then the late Governor Jay Hammond, Dave Rose, Hugh Malone and others who devised the Alaska Permanent Fund before the first drop of oil flowed. It was a stroke of genius.

I hooked up with a woman who had lived here since before the earthquake, who was working on a book about the early days of Alaskan statehood and the genesis of the permanent fund. She had done extensive armchair interviews with Jay Hammond, Dave Rose, Hugh Malone and several others which I transcribed for her. It was fascinating...I felt like I was really getting to know these people aside from what we read in the paper. I was always a big Jay Hammond fan anyway (one of the few Republicans I really respected) and these interviews just confirmed what I already knew.

Unfortunately the woman, whose name I don't even remember now, passed away before she had a chance to write her book, but I'm pretty sure I still have the interviews on a floppy disk around here somewhere (which I can't even open on my computer anymore). Those guys really were ahead of their time.

Hopefully, old Ted will get convicted and we will do what should have been done in the first place.

The word socialist is thrown around in this country like it's a dirty word. If Denmark and the rest of the Scandinavian countries are socialist I'd like some of that please.

Regards

But the crony capitalists don't want that.

Border Guard: "Welcome to Alaska! Here's a thousand dollars."

Homer: "Well it's about time! But why?" (Grabs cash.)

Border Guard: "We pay every resident $1000 to allow the oil companies to ravage our state's natural beauty."

Homer: "I'm home!" (Hugs guard.)

Border Guard: "Aw thanks." (Waves hat at Homer as he drives through.)

http://www.smacaw.com/2008/welcome_to_alaska.wmv

File size: 1.5 MB.

I laughed my ass off.

;-)

She's a conservative independent. I said, Alaska gets more federal dollars per capita than 48 other states. Yet, they pay no state sales tax, and every citizen gets a dividend check from the oil sales. Alaska gets $1.89 for every $1.00 they pay in federal taxes. In other words, they would rather spend YOUR money than theirs.

It isn't the point of this thread. The point is, Sarah Palin is running on a reformer, anti-earmark, financial guru, and it's the hypocracy of that. She's lying. This point will get it across to a big segment of independents and moderate republicans. In other words, her actions are far from her rhetoric and people need to know that.

What do I win?

So I guess that makes Miss Moosylvania a socialist.

ALASKA?

What did I win?!? :P

They're dreaming of la dolce vita, Saudi style.

Why don't these freaks want the same for America as a whole?

My guess is they're not all that into sharing.