Wasilla sports complex woes might hit Palin hard

[smockers83]

Oops, sorry there Steve. Didn't mean to take your argument away from you, I just got too excited.

[srellim234]

I couldn't resist puling your chain a little bit.

[rn79870]

Private enterprise? Are you trying to tell me that BP and Royal Dutch Shell are owned by Alaska? Doing some extensive quick research, I find nothing about the State of Alaska owning an oil company..

Try keeping up. The oil companies are paying the "royalty" for the oil that the taxpayers bought when they bought Alaska. The taxpayers should be the ones getting the royalty. Clear now?

[smockers83]

Try keeping up. The oil companies are paying the "royalty" for the oil that the taxpayers bought when they bought Alaska. The taxpayers should be the ones getting the royalty. Clear now?

Yes, I understand they pay royalties, we've already talked about that, and if you come here trying to get royalties out of the iron ore used for steel to build a building in CA, you can be sure to be put on the next flight right back to CA. This is what the mayhem would be like, you demand it from one state then all states are going to be demanded to give up their royalties to everyone and everyone's going to be mad, which it shouldn't be. It would be like states sharing their tax money. There is no logic to your idea here besides that somehow you paid for part of Alaska back in 1867 (which was paid for in cash), yet the state still has the right to its minerals whether the land was purchased or won during a war. And if you really do want your money back, based on populations and the $2600/person that I think was stated, you'd get a whopping $5.75!

I'm not quite sure where private enterprise comes in since it is private enterprise developing the oil fields. Either I'm confused or you're not explaining something and assuming I know something. To me, mentioning private enterprise in this conversation means you're trying to hint at the fact that these oil companies are state-owned.

[smockers83]

But back to the sports complex. I do agree that there is some sort of mismanagement going on, but then again, not everyone can run a perfect office. Obama, Biden, Palin, and McCain. It just doesn't happen.

The "city" near where I'm from, I call it a "city" because its 20,000 people and the largest in the UP, has wasted a lot of time and money trying to develop an area. Its been of some debate over contractors/developers and wasted money and what not, but nothing to the point where people have gone OMG! Vote them all out now!

[telcoman]

Proof of this statement, please?

If not, it is an example of the extreme statements that make many of us find the other pieces of your posts to be equally false then.

Z

http://seattletimes.nwsource.c....html

[telcoman]

Alaska still had more per person than any other state.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.c....html

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/...ncies

[szh]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.c....html

Ah! You meant per person then ... well, the population is lower, so that would happen. The absolute was not highest.

Z

[szh]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/...ncies

This is pre-cut data - just what was initially set out, not what was actually allocated. The numbers went down - in half - from those levels.

Z