That didn't sound like a Sarah Palin speech, not even remotely. What it sounded to me like was Richard Nixon, who proposed a similar thing for similar reasons,

That didn't sound like a Sarah Palin speech, not even remotely. What it sounded to me like was Richard Nixon, who proposed a similar thing for similar reasons, but couldn't get the proposal past the Senate: http://www.alternet.org/economy/how-richard-nixon-almost-gave-america-basic-income-and-why-we-should-do-it-now http://www.alternet.org/economy/how-richard-nixon-almost-gav... Why didn't it happen, in the words of Canadian Professor Eveyln Forget (of the University of Manitoba, Canada) “The political right is afraid people will stop working and the left doesn't trust them to make their own choices.”