Born & Raised Alaskan

I'm a born & raised Alaskan, though I spent some time in California & also in the UK. Two girls, one of whom will be 18 next month and is passionate about Obama just like her mama! Wonderful husband.

I've always been a political bystander, but this race has me pretty fired up. Part of it is Obama, and part of it is a zeal to get the word about the real Sarah Palin out to the seemingly brainwashed masses of the US. I just don't see her appeal, but then I guess that I would never want to have the mindset that would find her appealing, or the life that is conducive to finding her appealing. Alaska is about so much more than hunting & fishing & oil. There are so many people like me & my family, people who are committed to enjoying & protecting the beauty of Alaska without ever firing a gun or even catching a fish. My husband & I are, as are so many here in AK, in the oil industry, but that does not mean that we are in support of the drill baby drill mentality. There is more than enough work to go around for petroleum workers these days. As oil company employees for many many years, my husband and I are far more experienced in the energy issues than Sarah, but more than that we see & hear & think & talk about all of the ways that the TransCanada pipeline deal & the higher oil taxes have actually hurt Alaska and will continue to do so. She will be long gone by the time her foolish supporters here in AK realize that they have been duped and the state has been screwed.

Before we moved to the UK several years ago there was a local vote -- representatives, bond issues, etc. -- and it left me with a bad taste in my mouth for Alaska. So many foolish people out there voting to spend state dollars on a study re: gas pipeline viability because all they saw was "Gas Pipeline" in the header of the issue, little boxes for Yes & No, and they jumped all over it like white on rice. Why why why did they not educate themselves regarding that vote and the fact that the question was whether or not to spend state money on the "study"? That money should not have been spent! That was something that the oil companies had already been funding for years!!!! Anyway, while these uneducated (in terms of voting issues) Alaskans were marking the yes box on that they were voting NO NO NO to fixing school & roads & funding other important community programs! It made me sick. Anyway, then we moved away, and came back a short time ago to the same old ignorance & foolishness in blindly supporting anything that involves oil/gas and failing to support anything that directly involves the well-being of citizens (schools/roads/etc). Hello!!!!!! The oil companies aren't going anywhere, they are making money here. They are not making as much as they used to, thanks to the new tax structure, and therefore Alaskan jobs have been lost! Projects have been shelved or canceled and independents have been forced out due to the new tax structure. What does Alaska want? Long term jobs or short term financial gains in the form of taxes on oil companies here in Alaska? If anyone here thinks that tax structure will stay around after Sarah leaves her office I have a bridge in Ketchikan to sell them. And if anyone here thinks that the tax structure will stay if Sarah stays here I STILL have that bridge to sell you. Republicans = oil & war. Sarah will have to concede on this tax thing after the election, whichever way it goes. I wish the fools blindly supporting Palin would wake up & smell the coffee. Until they do we must use forums such as this to educate whomever we can.

That's my ramble & that's why I'm completely devoted to AK Mudflats.

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