Now, why am I not surprised? 🙄
I never could stand her, at all. She has the same voice as a shrieking harpy of a young lady, that I used to go to school with, has just about the same intelligence level as her too:
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.
She is not the only one, Glenn Thush over at The Politico reports:
Bachmann isn’t alone in her selective socialism: EWG found that the top four districts receiving the largest ag payments are represented by conservative Republicans.
1. 3rd district of Nebraska (Rep. Adrian Smith – Republican) – $1,736,923,011 in subsidies go to 51,702 recipients.
2. 1st district of Kansas (Rep. Jerry Moran – Republican) – $1,315,979,151 in subsidies go to 75,802 recipients.
3. 4th district of Iowa (Rep. Tom Latham – Republican) – $1,288,622,912 in subsidies go to 35,696 recipients.
4. 9th district of Texas (Rep. Randy Neugebauer – Republican) – $1,227,192,312 in subsidies go to 21,290 recipients.
Please, let’s clean up our own backyards before we start pointing out the faults of the other side.
You should read “Parliament of Whores”.
PJ says US farm policy should be taken out back and shot.
If Minnesota markets are distorted any more than Idaho’s (with which I’ve some familiarity) your choices are to get into the subsidy racket or get out of farming.
Which is by no means an exoneration of Bachmann’s family. Just a reply that there may be some more context at work than this article lets on.
Oh, that Commerce Clause and its unintended consequences…
Um, Who’s PJ?
Otherwise, quite true. 😀