Sarah Palin certainly seems to like her donuts. Witness this recent comment:
She then wrote that "in a recent interview I mentioned analogies that could relate to solutions to our economic challenges, including the difference between a communist government's 'Sputnik' and the private sector's 'Spudnut.'"
Her reference is to a donut shop she spotlighted on Fox News.
Hey, I'm all for free enterprise. And Clinton, too, liked his donuts. But Sputnik and Spudnut in the same sentence?!
Palin went on to say:
"I listen to that Sputnik talk over and over again and I think we don't need another one of those. You know what we need is a Spudnut moment," Palin said. "The Spudnut shop in Richland, Washington, it's a bakery, it's a coffee shop that's so successful, 60-some years, generation to generation, a family-owned business, not looking for government to bail them out, to make their decisions for them. It's just hard-working, patriotic Americans in this shop. We need more Spudnut moments in America."
Sorry, Sarah, but I don't think that America is going to recoup its former dominance in the global economy one donut shop at a time. Nor do I think that we are going to put much of a hole in the 9% unemployment rate one donut shop at a time either.
Try reading a little Thomas Friedman:
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