According to ABC News, Sarap Palin has earned in excess of $12 million since leaving her post as Alaskan Governor just eight months ago. Good for you, Mrs. Palin. I would never begrudge anyone their right to provide for their family and themselves in the best way they see fit.
I do have one question, however. At what point does her regular American schtick become just as transparent to her followers as it does to me? The average American working 40 years would need to earn an average of $300,000 a year to make $12,000,000 in their lifetime.
Very few people I know make $300,000 a year. These are people who work hard everyday to support themselves, their families, and their communities for, hopefully, a tenth of $300,000 a year. They’ve lived their lives the right way–stayed out of trouble, gone to college if they could afford it, given back to their communities. To me these are the “Real Americans” that Sarah Palin likes to talk about ad nauseum.
April 14, 2010 at 3:57 pm