Welfare Queen

by dday

Why is the nanny state, in the form of the state of Alaska, caring and feeding for Sarah Palin and her family? Doesn’t she know she has to WORK for that money instead of taking a handout?

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business.

The charges included costs for hotel and commercial flights for three daughters to join Palin to watch their father in a snowmobile race, and a trip to New York, where the governor attended a five-hour conference and stayed with 17-year-old Bristol for five days and four nights in a luxury hotel.

In all, Palin has charged the state $21,012 for her three daughters’ 64 one-way and 12 round-trip commercial flights since she took office in December 2006. In some other cases, she has charged the state for hotel rooms for the girls.

Actually, $21,000 is chump change compared to what the hockey mom is charging the RNC for her duds:

The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.

According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York for a combined $49,425.74.

The records also document a couple of big-time shopping trips to Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, including one $75,062.63 spree in early September.

John Edwards got a haircut, though.

Talk about your redistribution of wealth. I’ll tell you, we can’t afford Sarah Palin as Vice President. I mean we literally can’t afford it.

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