“We’re hearing now more talk of additional taxpayer bailouts … for companies, for corporations, perhaps even states now who may be standing in line with their hands out despite, perhaps, some poor management decisions on their part that helped tank our economy,” she said.
“Republicans can help shore [these sectors of the economy] up without getting any more addicted to opium, other people’s money. We need to have a rational discussion. What and when is enough enough?”
Palin stressed the need for what she called greater economic “accountability and personal responsibility” while urging “conservative solutions to these economic challenges.”
The Alaska governor also urged her party to take the lead on the issue of ethics, arguing that the GOP “had better lead with ethics reform and [help bring] an end to the self-dealing and corrupt special interests on Wall Street and in Washington that contributed to the housing crisis and elements of the economic collapse.”
Palin said that a “bigger federal government and more unfunded mandates hurt the economy and our states.”
She urged the GOP governors to “embrace the federalist principle that lets local government, government closest to the people, have more say.”
At a press conference earlier Thursday, Palin said that she and her fellow Republican governors were ready to put aside “extreme partisanship” and act if Washington fails to provide the leadership America needs.
She told them not to “let obsessive, extreme partisanship … get in the way of doing what’s right.”
