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teapartiers: please take notice and stop letting sarah palin play you like suckers. this is what a modern fiscal conservative looks like. “Sarah Palin has long sold herself as a fiscal conservative, arguing against the Democrats' health overhaul on the grounds that the nation simply can't afford it. But when the former vice presidential candidate resigned as governor of Alaska in the summer of 2009, she left the state with a 70 percent debt-to-GDP ratio — the highest state debt burden in the United States. That's according to data compiled by the Washington Independent's Megan Carpentier, who notes that Alaska has a debt burden similar to “that of Jordan and Palin's favorite health care resource, Canada, and a higher ratio than Ghana, Cote d