Bristol Palin earned $262,000 in 2009 at 18

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<p>[Bristol</a> Palin earns $262K for teen pregnancy work | Entertainment Headlines | Comcast.net](<a href=“Discovery Hub - News & Technology”>Discovery Hub - News & Technology)</p>

<p>Not sure why i am posting this other than to say "wow " that’s quite a chunk of change.</p>

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<p>Even minor celebrity pays better than most college related jobs will in 10 years. And people call them stupid.</p>

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<p>At least we aren’t supporting her with welfare.</p>

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<p>The sad part is that some teen girls will think “Oh well, if I get pregnant, this is what might happen”… yeah, if your mom is governor and you are placed into a public-speaking machine to support her political aims.</p>

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<p>A quarter of a million, just to tell people “Do as I say, not as I did”.</p>

<p>Unbelievable</p>

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<p>“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” - H.L. Mencken</p>

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<p>“Don’t have sex and get pregnant, even though I did. I wouldn’t have if I could do it over again. Err, well, I would, because I love my son and my life is better because I have him. But I shouldn’t have. But, um, yeah, don’t do it. Even though I did. And still want my son. Yeah.”</p>

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<p>“Bristol Palin earned $262,000 in 2009 at 18”
that’s disgusting. absolutely disgusting…
I hope mama palin is proud…</p>

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<p>Nothing disgusting about earning money for doing work and public speaking. That’s alot better than being a welfare momma and hitting up the taxpayers to support her. And hey, at least she’s not stripping.</p>

<p>Think of all the fine people who have fallen from grace and managed to make plenty of bucks off of it, either talking about their transgressions or how they moved beyond them, via books and appearances. Some people take their 15 minutes of fame and move past it, others make it live on and on ad nauseum. Bristol could have been the humiliated, pathetic, dumped baby momma…instead, she’s making a living off of it and walking with her head held high. She is not less nor more admirable because of whom her mother is.</p>

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<p>“Bristol could have been the humiliated, pathetic, dumped baby momma…” </p>

<p>You mean she isn’t?</p>

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<p>menloparkmom, I’m sure she is.</p>

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<p>“And hey, at least she’s not stripping.”</p>

<p>Not yet.</p>

<p>When the gigs dry up, when the money is gone…look for the Playboy cover.</p>

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<p>That’s my thought also, busdriver11! </p>

<p>Wonder if it included any DWTS money…</p>

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<p>Bristol made her money because of who her mother is - it has nothing to do with Bristol. There are thousands of underage pregnant girls that won’t get another thought and won’t be getting a call to go on DWTS.</p>

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<p>She also made her money because she got pregnant at 17. There are thousands of politicians’ children who don’t make that kind of money because they don’t do stupid things. We’re rewarding the wrong people.</p>

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<p>Does anyone here know if it Bristol’s pregnancy that spawned the idea for the MTV show, 16 and Pregnant? [MTV’s</a> 16 and Pregnant (Season 1) | Full Episodes, Photos, Episode Synopsis and Recaps | MTV](<a href=“http://www.mtv.com/shows/16_and_pregnant/season_1/series.jhtml]MTV’s”>http://www.mtv.com/shows/16_and_pregnant/season_1/series.jhtml) I have never watched that show, but I hear that one of the “stars” is pretty out of control, has been arrested for violent behaviors, and that the show may have had the opposite effect of what they desired, in that it may have encouraged young girls to get pregnant, for the shot at fame on the show, rather than dissuade it by showing the realities of teen motherhood. Anyone know?</p>

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<p>This is actually one of my pet peeves. My issue is not so much what the tax exempt foundation paid its spokesperson, but rather the ratio of salaries to actual work done by the foundation for which they obtained their tax exempt status. In this case: </p>

<p>“But closer examination of the tax form by ThinkProgress shows that the group disbursed only $35,000 in grants to actual teen pregnancy health and counseling clinics: $25,000 to the Mt. Sinai Adolescent Health Center and $10,000 to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.”</p>

<p>There are way too many foundations, subsidized by our tax money, which seem to me to exist more for the purpose of paying salaries than anything else. There’s a case in my state where a former politician set up a tax exempt organization, solicited donations, and got paid more than $500,000 (paid for by the donations, of course), and the sole disbursement for the alleged purpose of the foundation totaled a whopping $9. </p>

<p>Now maybe Candies’ foundation does other things than support clinics. I don’t know. But that’s my first question.</p>

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<p>Does anyone else think that it’s very ironic that on cc there are lots of kids with great grades and test scores, who didn’t get pregnant (or get some one else pregnant) who can not go to the college of their choice because they don’t have that $262K?</p>

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<p>Story like this amazes me every single time. Does it serve as a powerful example for the girls of right and wrong? A lot of kids at 16-17, don’t know better. Where are the parents when children are doing dumb things like getting into the situation like this? Not every mom’s are governors. What would these girls do when they get pregnant at 17? Sad indeed.</p>

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<p>^ That’s called life, it aint always fair. </p>

<p>I’m a bit surprised by the holier than though approach posters are taking.</p>

<p>If we want to label Bristol Palin as a “Talentless person who is only making alot of money because of her mother/parents”, then we could define nearly 60% of CC students with that same label.</p>

<p>It’s just a bunch of sour grapes because you don’t like her mother.</p>