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To: Brumar89 who wrote (414503)	9/6/2008 2:00:12 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1587053

>Selling an unneeded luxury plane seems like a good idea to me. As does deciding not to build the bridge to nowhere. You just proved my point. This isn't nitpicking. First off, the bridge to nowhere -- Palin was FOR the bridge to nowhere until it because apparent the Congress wasn't giving her the necessary money for the whole thing. She then took the "pork" that Congress was willing to give her towards the bridge and used it for other things. She didn't give it back. And for the plane, it wasn't unnecessary. For one thing, it makes sense to me that a state that's what, half the size of the rest of the U.S. and separated from the rest of the country by another large country would have a private plane. Also, it seems that it was used half the time to ship prisoners to and from Alaska to Arizona, because Alaska doesn't have enough space for its prisoners. Besides, it was a 2 million dollar item and purely symbolic, at best. This is nothing more than the McCain campaign building an artificial facade for Palin, and it's fair game. -Z