Sarah Palin and a National Dividend (for Alaska and the other 50 states)

Why not?

Tina Fey's Sarah is my preferred candidate: but any one of them will do.

Under the American system of checks and balances, and respect for an ideal government -- of, by and for the PEOPLE --NOT the oligarchy, I believe we would be as safe with Sarah as we were with presidents who were very different from the average hockey mom.

Tina Fey could see Russia from her window. I like that fact.

IF Sarah beings to Washington a brief for government dividends paid directly to the people, and another brief for making friends with Russia (who previously sold us Alaska and might be happy to live in peace after paying more lives in war than any other nation,) THEN Sarah would offer value as a candidate.

..... She would suffer only from suspicion that she is too closely allied with American Gingrich-redux voters, and parties, -- who might hate a national dividend, and Russia, at the same time.

If Sarah ran on a God Bless America platform, paying us all a dividend so high that she would definitely be elected, and working with Russia as president as she works with her as governor, she would have my vote -- and possibly a majority of people no smarter than she is.

That would be enough to defeat the Democrats at the national level -- and enough to prove that Sarah Palin was one of the people and up to the job with their support of populist economics and a female's determination not to behave like Hamlet.

Who is Sarah ? Joan of Arc? Clara Barton? Barbara Frietchie?

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..... When Winston Churchill passed through Frederick in 1943, he stopped at the house and recited the poem from memory, an excerpt of which follows.
..... "Barbara Frietchie
"Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,
But spare your country's flag," she said.
A shade of sadness, a blush of shame,
Over the face of the leader came;
The nobler nature within him stirred
To life at that woman's deed and word;
"Who touches a hair of yon gray head
Dies like a dog! March on!" he said.
-- -- courtesy Wikipedia

Well, Sarah may be Sarah. But if Obama can't find money enough for small automobile dealers, I am afraid he may not find enough for me. In Alaska they find money enough for everyone. Whatever their smoking, beside salmon, is what the rest of America ought to try.

In case we just can't wait for 2012 to roll around to let us see if Obama-nomics works, a National Dividend (similar to the one proposed by Major Douglas** for Canada in 1924,) can be enacted.

The President could appoint an ad hoc advisory commission of State Governors, with Sarah Palin as co-chair, along with the governors of Michigan and California, to coordinate a bipartisan demand for action now before more families suffer needlessly while jobs are lost and children put out of their homes and on to the streets for no good reason.

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** From Wikipedia on Social Credit:

Social Credit

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Social Credit is described by its originator, C. H. Douglas, as "the policy of a philosophy". Douglas called his philosophy "practical Christianity". This philosophy is interdisciplinary in nature, encompassing the fields of economics, political science, history, accounting, and physics.

The term "Social Credit" originated from the writings of Douglas, a British engineer and originator of the Social Credit movement, (1879–1952), who wrote a book by that name in 1924.

According to Douglas, the true purpose of production is consumption, and production must serve the genuine, freely expressed interests of consumers. Each citizen is to have a beneficial, not direct, inheritance in the communal capital conferred by complete and dynamic access to the fruits of industry assured by the National Dividend and Compensated Price.

..... Consumers, fully provided with adequate purchasing power, will establish the policy of production through exercise of their monetary vote.

In this view, the term economic democracy does not mean worker control of industry. Removing the policy of production from banking institutions, government, and industry, Social Credit envisages an "aristocracy of producers, serving and accredited by a democracy of consumers."

Assuming the only safe place for power is in many hands, Social Credit is a distributive philosophy, and its policy is to disperse power to individuals.

Social Credit philosophy is best summed by Douglas when he said, “Systems were made for men, and not men for systems, and the interest of man which is self-development, is above all systems, whether theological, political or economic.”

The policy proposals of Social Credit attracted widespread interest in the decades between the world wars of the twentieth century because of their relevance to economic conditions of the time.

Douglas called attention to the excess of production capacity over consumer purchasing power, an observation that was acknowledged by John Maynard Keynes in his book, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

While Douglas shared with Keynes some criticisms of the monetary and banking systems, his unique remedies were disputed and even rejected by most economists and bankers of the time.

Remnants of Social Credit still exist within Social Credit Parties throughout the world, but not in the purest form originally advanced by Major C. H. Douglas.

Likewise, the Keynesian Revolution of the 1940s and 1950s was eventually eroded by neoclassical economists and banking interests.

Now as Keynes' ideas seem the most generally accepted response to the Financial crisis of 2007–2009, modern analysts like Richard C. Cook argue the need for a renewed interest in the long dormant ideas of Major Douglas.

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