According to the Times Online, $150,000 was spent on designer clothes for Sarah Palin at boutiques such as Neiman-Marcus. It makes sense why there was hysteria over the expression, “Putting lipstick on a pig.”

From the same source, as mayor, she hired a Washington lobbyist who secured $27 million in pork for tiny Wasilla. Nonetheless, she left Wasilla $20 million in debt. How’s that for a joke?

The Times Online also offers that in a three-year period, Palin’s lobbyist secured 14 earmarks for the 6,700 residents of Wasilla.

According to U.S. News & World Report, under Palin’s governorship this year, Alaskans asked for more pork per person than any other Americans.

And according to CNN, Palin has been caught doctoring the books regarding her children’s airfares and entertainment at tax payers’ expense.

People might look back at this someday and laugh, but when billionaires such as Warren Buffet, George Soros and Paul Volker, the great economic minds of our time, are all helping Obama put a shoulder to the wheel, you know there is nothing to laugh at.

Tom Bulger, Avon