$113,494,327,965

Sarah Palin requested $254 million in earmarks last year, or roughly $379 per Alaskan resident. If you multiply that out by the population of the United States (taken from 2006 census numbers) you get $113,494,327,965 in earmark requests. As the governor of the richest state in the Union she requested more money per person than anyone else.

Sunday, September 7, 2008