The Trouble With Sarah

I had expected to eventually hear the unsettling news that Sarah Palin was going to consider a presidential run in 2012.
It's not only her lack of experience and good education that I find troubling, but I know what she truly believes, as I have had the joyful (?) experience of living near her hometown, and being under her "get up and run away" governorship...

Sarah has a strong fundamental belief that good jobs (i.e good pay, good money) solves all social ills. I can't argue with her point that in most cases, especially here in the Matanuska Valley of Alaska, people with money don't start meth labs, shoot their neighbors, or rob liquor stores. She makes a valid point. Her theory just doesn't fly outside a "go and grow" state like Alaska or Texas or any other huge state filled with natural resources. Sarah has most of her experience in Wasilla, where she was all for huge ugly box stores and development galore. This can only be achieved when land is plentiful and cheap. Once you build the super Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Target and a bunch of Mc Mansions where do you go from there?

Or take the good paying natural resource jobs--like oil and minerals. Does this kind of work hold promise 50 years from now? Construction is huge here too--but when you have paved over all the country what then? Her economic theory works--for now--but is not sustainable in the long term. And how do box stores help small mom & pop shops that go out of business or "good paying manufacturing jobs" right here at home? Sarah herself is often spotted at Wal-Mart (at least up until last year). But what does Wal-Mart do for Made in USA manufacturers?? Puts them out of business, that's what.

I would love to hear her explain herself on this. How do you develop these "good paying, low-education jobs" in states that have little land left?? (like NJ) Especially when the factories shut down because you are buying your own crap from China.