Sarah Palin's Ideas on Transforming U.S. Nonsense, Not Commonsense

COMMENTARY | Sarah Palin Monday posted a lengthy account to Facebook with her take on our country's current financial situation. She inferred that she knew this would happen all along and her commonsense ideas could have avoided the entire fiasco.

This is the same woman who insisted that President Obama was trying to create fear in the eyes of Americans by explaining the possible devastating effects on our economy if a deal was not reached in the White House.

In her Facebook post, Palin talks about her ideas for getting the economy to move along. Somehow, all of this sounds quite familiar.

What are some of Palin's "common sense" ideas? Her ideas are not new. Some are the same ideas she threw out when she was running for governor in her home state of Alaska.

Palin said she would transform the Alaskan economy, bragging about her plan to build a 1,700 mile pipeline that, in addition to the economy transformation, would contribute to America's domestic energy supply.

The Republican speaker of the State House, Mike Chenault, said, according to the New York Times, "She made it an issue. That was the way that Alaska was going to move forward. As of yet, we haven't, in my opinion, moved one step forward." He has sponsored a bill that will effectively end Palin's failed plan.

"How many more reports (that today are destined to merely gather dust on the shelf) do we need about duplicative and unnecessary programs before we actually do something about government waste?" Palin asked on Facebook.

What does Palin consider government waste?

Programs Palin has considered unnecessary included food banks and aid to unwed teenage mothers. As governor of Alaska, she used her line item veto to cut 50 percent of funding to the Fairbanks Community Food Program. The program is the only food drive available to infants, women and children in a remote area of the state.

Although the state of Alaska was experiencing a surplus, she also cut 40 percent of funding to the Covenant House. The house provides shelter for abused women as well as pregnant teens who don't feel safe at home. It also provided counseling to these women and girls, as well as helping them transition into motherhood.

Palin's own daughter Bristol was able to earn plenty of money as an unwed mother by publicly speaking about how abstinence works so well in their family. It's no surprise Sarah feels that type of funding is trivial; in her world, it's easy to make a buck off the public.

Palin would also get rid of Obamacare, as she has said many times before. Healthcare for Americans is not a priority in her eyes. Apparently getting access to healthcare is not a necessity.

Palin's ideas are nonsense, not commonsense, and I hope her small numbers of supporters in America will begin to open their eyes to the reality of Sarah Palin.