MIchelle Bachmann: Welfare Queen !!!

[doc mercer]

Michelle Bachman: Welfare Queen
Posted on Dec 22, 2009

By Yasha Levine


Michele Bachmann has become well known for her anti-government tea-bagger antics, protesting health care reform and every other government “handout” as socialism. What her followers probably don’t know is that Rep. Bachmann is, to use that anti-government slur, something of a welfare queen. That’s right, the anti-government insurrectionist has taken more than a quarter-million dollars in government handouts thanks to corrupt farming subsidies she has been collecting for at least a decade.

And she’s not the only one who has been padding her bank account with taxpayer money.

Bachmann, of Minnesota, has spent much of this year agitating against health care reform, whipping up the so-called tea-baggers with stories of death panels and rationed health care. She has called for a revolution against what she sees as Barack Obama’s attempted socialist takeover of America, saying presidential policy is “reaching down the throat and ripping the guts out of freedom.”

But data compiled from federal records by Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit watchdog that tracks the recipients of agricultural subsidies in the United States, shows that Bachmann has an inner Marxist that is perfectly at ease with profiting from taxpayer largesse.

According to the organization’s records, Bachmann’s family farm received $251,973 in federal subsidies between 1995 and 2006. The farm had been managed by Bachmann’s recently deceased father-in-law and took in roughly $20,000 in 2006 and $28,000 in 2005, with the bulk of the subsidies going to dairy and corn. Both dairy and corn are heavily subsidized—or “socialized”—businesses in America (in 2005 alone, Washington spent $4.8 billion propping up corn prices) and are subject to strict government price controls. These subsidies are at the heart of America’s bizarre planned agricultural economy and as far away from Michele Bachmann’s free-market dream world as Cuba’s free medical system. If American farms such as hers were forced to compete in the global free market, they would collapse.

However, Bachmann doesn’t think other Americans should benefit from such protection and assistance. She voted against every foreclosure relief bill aimed at helping average homeowners (despite the fact that her district had the highest foreclosure rate in Minnesota), saying that bailing out homeowners would be “rewarding the irresponsible while punishing those who have been playing by the rules.” That’s right, the subsidy queen wants the rest of us to be responsible.

Bachmann’s financial disclosure forms indicate that her personal stake in the family farm is worth up to $250,000. They also show that she has been earning income from the farm business, and that the income grew in just a few years from $2,000 to as much as $50,000 for 2008. This has provided her with a second government-subsidized income to go with her job as a government-paid congresswoman who makes $174,000 per year (in addition to having top-notch government medical benefits). “If she has an interest in a farm getting federal subsidy payments, she is benefiting from them,” Sandra Schubert, director of government affairs for the Environmental Working Group, told Gannett News Service in 2007, when the subsidies to Bachmann were first publicly disclosed.

But Bachmann isn’t the only welfare recipient on Capitol Hill. As it turns out, there is a filthy-rich class of absentee farmers—both in and out of Congress—who demand free-market rules by day and collect their government welfare checks in the mail at night, payments that subsidize businesses that otherwise would fail. Over the past couple of decades, welfare for the super-wealthy seems to be the only kind of welfare our society tolerates.

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[Munchkin Man]

Greetings Doc Mercer:

The Munchkin Man was blessed with the opportunity to hear Michelle Bachmann speak on the Sean Hannity Show a couple of days ago.

She had the voice of an angel.

Her words made the Munchkin Man feel like the Munchkin Man was floating away in Heaven while listening to the sound of a golden harp.

Her words resonated with a level of truth and wisdom which could have only come from your Lord Thy God, Himself.

The Munchkin Man will be praying that the soil to your heart and soul will become unhardened to the hatred which possesses you, so that you can begin to experience and "receive" the many blessings her words have to offer.

With Prayers,

Munchkin Man

[doc mercer]

and Hitler had the voice of God according to many Germans who followed that
Satantic POS

Wow ... a Bachmann gathering with nothing but White folks who can't decide if Barack is a Muslim, Communist, Socialist or Marxist

Bachmann is like a big bowel movement ..... once the movement has passed life is
better

[AK]

lol, Im not sure I understand what your saying in this thread.. Enlighten me!

[AK]

Bump!!

[doc mercer]

Bachmann has screamed over and over about Socialism and "govt handouts", etc


She is soo full of shit its back out of her mouth everytime she talks .... Grassley
also who accepted about $1,000,000 in govt handouts for his Iowa farm


The Damn right base is so damn dense and the Dems let the GOP sell their "Socialism" cries .....


This is truly a country of brain dead citizens who have no idea what Socialism is but yet they believe the Black Man in the WH is a Socialist ... of course they have no clue that technically Reagan was also a Socialist and the Palin ran a Socialist state in Alaska

[AK]

I take it Palin is not your favorite :)