Palin poor? That’s rich!
US Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin claims she struggles to pay bills, describing herself as “an everyday, working-class American” who knows how it feels when the stock market takes a hit.
The Palin family income reached six figures in her 2007 declaration, capitalising on salmon fishing rights and property deals. Her governor’s salary brought in $125,000 (£71,000), while her husband Todd earned nearly $100,000 from his part-time job with BP, combined with income from commercial fishing.
The couple appear to be worth at least $1.2m, including a $500,000 home, a Piper float-plane and two holiday getaways.
My. I wish I was struggling just like the Palins. Don’t you wish much the same for yourself?
tags: hypocrisy, lies, politics, Sarah Palin, US2006: poetry, hate crimes in the news, and a loss still keenly felt today
It’s an entry from 2006 that, every year since, gets an impressive flurry of hits around GCSE exam time. Thankfully, I know the information I posted in Carol Ann Duffy: A Beginner’s Guide, all about one of Britain’s most successful poets, is correct—but really, despite GCSE results around the country usually being quite good, it concerns me that kids are still using the Internet for last-minute revision despite all the warnings that, when it comes to study, books should be used and not websites that haven’t been given a stamp of educational authority. I mean, I know the stuff I wrote isn’t fiction, but I agree with the advice. Sites like Wikipedia are most often used, despite anyone being able to contribute to them.
tags: 2006, archives, bereavement, Carol Ann Duffy, cats, China, David Morley, Dolly, Iran, poetry, retrospective, UN, US, Zimbabwe
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