Piper Palin, Sarah's last remaining travel buddy. But at what cost?

Courtesy of Politically Poisoning Pit bull Pundit's Facebook page: 

Piper was a great right hand man helping out at the Ag PhD Field Day in South Dakota this week. Here we are in the green room between ag events.

Essentially Piper seems to be the last child that was willing to accompany the Grizzled Mama on her various tours to garner donations and appearances at pet shop openings and State Fair animal exhibits.

However even Piper started to get over it around 2011, during Palin's ill fated "We the People" bus tour. As evidenced by this CNN report.

I remembered early on, back in 2009 even, being told that the whole family was based on a kind of barter system. In that in order for Palin to get anything out of her family, she had to make a deal with them first.

At the time I got slammed by her flying monkeys as attacking her as a mother. (How dare I!) However I think we have seen more than ample evidence that those early reports were spot on.

From Bristol's appearances on DWTS and her own failed reality shows (Not to mention a completely undeserved book deal,), to Willow's" hair school" education attached to a promise to help her start her own business, and now to THIS payoff to Piper for standing in manure with her mom in South Dakota:

Piper’s reward for helping me out in South Dakota was a little field trip where she proved herself much braver than her mama, and here’s the pic to prove it!

Now ALL parents do some negotiating with their kids in order to get them to behave, or to help out around the house, but I think that Palin has taken it to all new heights. (Or depths if you prefer.)

Of course what can one expect since the family motto, as Todd Palin so eloquently pointed out, is "What's in it for us?"

Of course the problem with this approach to family cooperation eventually ends up with the price being too high for the parent to pay. And after that just WHERE do these children, who are now conditioned to receive a monetary or vacation payoff for their acquiescence, supposed to get their fix?

After all there is less and less money rolling in from SarahPAC, Palin has now accepted a much less lucrative contract with Fox, her appearances at these low rent events CANNOT be paying much, and let's face it her next book is going to fail miserably. So just how does her family get their grifting needs met?

Hmm, that's a conundrum alright. Or is it?