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Sarah Palin Quote, or Random Algorithmic Gibberish?

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There's a 50% chance that Sarah Palin said the quote below, and a 50% chance it was generated by my Markov chain–based random text generator. Can you tell which it is?

And we have to deal with the reality — and reality is we are going bankrupt and the only way that we're going to get out of the problem that we face is to cut, is to cut budgets — is to reform entitlements, and then to start a pro-growth agenda that's based on cutting taxes and incentivizing production and tapping our energy sources and again stop assuming that government can plan our economy for us. There will — and there will always — There is a need — there is a need for a safety net for those who are disadvantaged and in some of the rural communities in Alaska where there's 80 percent unemployment, there is a disadvantage and there needs to be a safety net. But you know why there is a disadvantage here in Alaska? Because the federal government has locked up our lands and not allowed us to tap into energy sources so that we can create more jobs. Less than one percent of Alaskan land is in the private sector hands.

Who said it?

 An algorithm
 Sarah Palin