Palin says feds are stockpiling bullets

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The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, a crack shot whose public remarks demonstrate an accuracy problem, is claiming that the federal government is stockpiling bullets should civil unrest arise out of a default on the national debt.

Sarah Palin: "The feds are stockpiling bullets in case of civil unrest."

The former half-term Alaska governor made the assertion on her Facebook page Tuesday but provided no supporting evidence or attribution. Discussing the automatic budget cuts set to take effect Friday 9 percent in domestic spending, 12 percent in Defense she asserts:

If we are going to wet our proverbial pants over 0.3 percent in annual spending cuts when were running up trillion dollar annual deficits, then were done. Put a fork in us. Were finished. Were going to default eventually and thats why the feds are stockpiling bullets in case of civil unrest.

Palin takes President Obama to task for running around denouncing the budget sequestrations. She has praise for the automatic cuts although Pentagon reductions! will hit hard at Alaskas multiple military installations.

It wasnt the ideal outcome, but it did at least include real direct reduction of about $110 billion per year for 10 years, which is still nowhere near enough to close our massive deficit, says Palin.

It should be noted that, as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, Palin once hired a lobbying firm to seek more federal dollars for the city north of Anchorage.

Out of the limelight she loves she was recently let go by Fox News Palin is set to reappear as a speaker at next months Conservative Political Action Conference. She will appear with such other presidential wannabees as Mitt Romney, ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich and ex-Sen. Rick Santorum.

But no invite has been New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, arguably the most popular Republican in the country with a 70 percent job approval rating in his home state.

Al Cardenas, head of the American Conservative Union, explained the snub by saying CPACs overseers are mad at Christie for supporting the $60 billion Hurricane Sandy relief package, and accepting expanded Medicaid help under the Affordable Care Act.

CPAC is to conservative politics what all-star games are to professional athletes: You get invited to speak amongst literally thousands of potential candidates, Cardenas said in an e-mail to Politico.

In a recent Public Policy Polling survey of Alaska, Palin had an approval rating of about one-third of those in her home state less than half of Christies thumbs-up in the Garden State.

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