Reply #69: It gets even weirder when she goes "Spudnuts"...

[JHB]

PALIN: So I listen to that Sputnik moment talk over and over again and I think, 'No, you don't need one of those. You know what we need is a Spudnut moment. And here's where I'm going with this -- and you're a good one, because you're one of those reporters who actually gets out there in the communities, find these hard-working people and find solutions to the problems that Americans face.

Well, the Spudnut shop, in Richland, Washington -- it's a bakery, it's a little coffee shop that's so successful -- 60 some years, generation to generation, a family-owned business. It's not looking for government to bail them out and to make their decisions for them. It's just hard-working, patriotic Americans in this shop -- we need more Spudnut moments in America!

And I wish that President Obama would understand -- in that heartland of America, what it is that really results in the solutions that we need to get this economy back on the right track, it's a shop like that!

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For 60 some years a (sometimes "the") major employer in Richland was the Hanford nuclear facility. Not to detract from the hard work and entrepreneurship of the Spudnut owners, but it's a lot easier to run a successful coffee shop when there is a large, steady, well-paid work force in the area that was not subject to the whims of the market.

Spudnuts didn't have to receive a single government check to greatly benefit from government spending.

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