Girls Against Sarah Palin

$$$ Woes

Sarah manages to run small-town Wassilla into the ground.

When she took the job as mayor, the small town had a surplus.  When she left for greener pastures, she left the town $20 million in debt.

Sarah couldn’t manage the state-run Matansuka Maid Dairy, either.
As Palin came into office, the state Creamery Board, after years of study, concluded that state-run Matanuska Maid Dairy was beyond saving, after years in the red despite heavy taxpayer subsidies. It recommended that the dairy be privatized, as the only way of rescuing the dairy, and saving Alaskans from giving tax dollars to a failing business that inflated dairy costs.
You would think that Palin, the so-called maverick cost cutter, would be thrilled. Nope. Instead, Palin fired the entire Board of Agriculture and Conservation, and replaced them with loyalists, who in turn installed themselves as the new Creamery Board. Palin contended that Mat Maid Dairy just needed better management, and these guys would do it. In short, like another person I know (hmmm…) Palin didn’t like the expert’s answers, so instead of dealing with the facts, she fired the experts to find “new facts.”
Except not so much.   Nearly $1 million in subsidies later, including $200,000 in Alaska tax dollars paid to farmers to dump raw milk into the ground, this new Creamery Board came to the same exact conclusion as the old one - Matanuska Maid Dairy was a failure and a drain on the state. Oh, and the kicker is now the dairy has been reborn, and subsidized with Federal tax dollars, otherwise known as “pork.”