Michele Bachmann: Welfare Queen

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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.

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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.

[preacherman76]

LOL, I really dont know much about the lady. Ive liked what I have heard from her. I gotta wonder why this article doesnt bother to state how farm subsidies are not a opitional choice. You either stop farming and take the money, or you get your land taken. I have watched it happen in upstate NY to many farmer, over many years.

[Mac E]

I have never been impressed with her.

[ohio traveler]

I tend to agree with alot of what she supposedly stands for. But I'm not convinced. I'm not sure she's totally genuine.

She sort of comes across as a band-wagon jumper. Riding on the coat tails of this new wave of conservative leaders.

But I'm still up in the air about farm subdidies. I'm not in favor of entitlement programs at all. But I do try and have some sympathy for the American farmer. But I'm sure it's just another corrupt and screwed-up government run entitlemant program like all of the rest of them. Our tax dollars getting flushed down the drain.