Michele Bachmann: Welfare Queen

[EriktheRed]

Unbelievable. You retards amaze me anew every day.

Izzat a fact.


How so this time?

Edit: Never mind, I see it now. And yeah, if you can't see what a total hypocrite this makes her (Sen. Grassley too, for that matter), then you have no business calling anyone else on here "retards".

Hell, even oreo seems to get it!

 

[EriktheRed]

I guess this is right up there with Madame Speaker. She owns a viinyars thats valued at between 5 and 29 million. Funny kiinda spread doncha think??

She, of course, pays taxes on the 5 million. Nothing sneaky going on there. She also gets water to her vinyard even though vibrant farmland is a dessert because of a fucking fish. Nothing shady there either I guess. Oh well. Politics as usual.

She's not the one harping about "government handouts", though.

 

[chanel]

Rumor ha it Ms pelosi won't eat smelts. Just sayin...

And in other news... Harry Reid just drove a road repaired with a Republican earmark he voted against.

Hey - let's start a thread about tax cheats! Isn't that the subject of thi thread?

 

[CaféAuLait]

It is against the law to not pay your taxes but nobody is being forced to take government handouts, are you so blind to not see the hypocrisy in railing about government handouts while collecting government handouts?

But it is not against the law to take deductions to which you are entitled. Just like it is not against the law to take government benefits that you are entitled to, like farm subsidies.
And no I dont see any hypocrisy here, except from the Dems.

So just for the record you see no hypocrisy in railing about government handouts while taking government handouts? really? really?

What is your opinion on loose women who preach abstinence? Or male preachers who teach that homosexuality is bad while having a stable of men they have sex with?

I do not like Bachmann but I can’t see the story here.

She voted against farm subsidies and when she married her husband his interest in his father s farm ( which he and his father owned BEFORE they married) became part hers and she reports the income. How anyone her can believe that she could tell her father in law and her husband what to do with HIS/THEIR farm is beyond me. The subsidys stopped upon her FIL's death in 2006 or none have been reported since then and it is a few days shy of 2010.

Michele Bachmann: Watching her step | StarTribune.com

Eric Black Ink » Blog Archive » A guest Post: Rep. Michele Bachmann, opponent of farm subsidies, benefits from them

 

[The Rabbi]

It is against the law to not pay your taxes but nobody is being forced to take government handouts, are you so blind to not see the hypocrisy in railing about government handouts while collecting government handouts?

But it is not against the law to take deductions to which you are entitled. Just like it is not against the law to take government benefits that you are entitled to, like farm subsidies.
And no I dont see any hypocrisy here, except from the Dems.

So just for the record you see no hypocrisy in railing about government handouts while taking government handouts? really? really?

What is your opinion on loose women who preach abstinence? Or male preachers who teach that homosexuality is bad while having a stable of men they have sex with?

For the record I don't see that Bachman has done anything wrong other than oppose Nancy Pelosi (not that I consider that wrong. Nancy does). And she doesn't deserve to get labeled and attacked for her political views. But that never stopped a Democrat, I realize.
Your other absurd points have been dealt with by others.

 

[Polk]

Didn't the Soviet Union subsidize farms? And yet Bachman rails against social programs for the poor while she and her wealthy land owner friends rake in the Government money

Who was it who instuted those farm price supports and defends them tooth and nail? Wasn't that Democrats from farm states like WI?

Farm pork is a bipartisan lovefest.

 

[Polk]

Didn't the Soviet Union subsidize farms? And yet Bachman rails against social programs for the poor while she and her wealthy land owner friends rake in the Government money

Didn't the Soviet Union subsidize farms?

So did WWII Fascist Italy and Modern day left-centric Brazil, so what is your point?

The original portion of the thread is that while Bachmann bitches about other people getting public money, she has no problem with taking government money herself.

 

[sealybobo]

Michelle Bachman is as crazy as Alliebaba and Willow

 

[Chris]

What I want to know is how do the average Joe Smoes and Jane Does get in on the Government Dole that these lovely people do?

Exactly what I was thinking...

 

[oreo]

What I want to know is how do the average Joe Smoes and Jane Does get in on the Government Dole that these lovely people do?

Exactly what I was thinking...

Subsidies for farmers started back in the 1930's under FDR--& under the pretense to help farmers during hard times. The problem: Those subsidies never went away even when farmers were in the high times.

Another example of when the federal government enacts something it NEVER goes away--regardless of the circumstances. You threaten to take subsidies away from farmers & you will have democrats & republicans who serve these districts on it so fast--our heads would be spinning---

 

[Chris]

What I want to know is how do the average Joe Smoes and Jane Does get in on the Government Dole that these lovely people do?

Exactly what I was thinking...

Subsidies for farmers started back in the 1930's under FDR--& under the pretense to help farmers during hard times. The problem: Those subsidies never went away even when farmers were in the high times.

Another example of when the federal government enacts something it NEVER goes away--regardless of the circumstances. You threaten to take subsidies away from farmers & you will have democrats & republicans who serve these districts on it so fast--our heads would be spinning---

I have no problem with subsidies for farmers.

I do have a problem with Bachman.

Reminds me of an old joke.

A farmer wins a million dollars in the lottery, and the press asks him what he is going to do with the money. He says....

"I'll probably just keep farming till it's all gone."

 

[Big Fitz]

Is she a socialist or communist? I always get the ism's messed up.

Both.

I actually think this might make her a Muslim too.

oh! Shit!
Next thing you know, she is going to be opening muslim schools.

Can't do much worse than TAREK/TWIES/UBAH for keeping Somali kids out of the Jihad.

I also haven't met a 'fact' checking site that wasn't totally agenda driven.

 

[Big Fitz]

Didn't the Soviet Union subsidize farms? And yet Bachman rails against social programs for the poor while she and her wealthy land owner friends rake in the Government money

Who was it who instuted those farm price supports and defends them tooth and nail? Wasn't that Democrats from farm states like WI?

Farm pork is a bipartisan lovefest.

Who was it who instuted those farm price supports and defends them tooth and nail? Wasn't that Democrats from farm states like WI?

Rabbi's thinking the Cheese Prices as based on a distance from Eau Claire, WI.

As a cheesehead myself, even I'm going WTF?!?

Personally I want all Ag subsidies ended for anyone who does not LIVE on their farm AND work it. Bubye billion dollar industry ag subsidies. Hello independent farmer.

 

[Chris]

Michelle Bachman is as crazy as Alliebaba and Willow

You don't suppose Alliebaba is Michelle Bachman, do you?

 

[Wry Catcher]

LMAO, this right wing crazy is outed as another hypocrite:
"Michele Bachmann's family farm in Independence, Wis., has, um, consented to accept over $250,000 in what by any definition would have to be called "socialized" federal subsidies. Writes Thrush, "Bachmann’s financial disclosure forms indicate her stake in the Wisconsin farm is worth up to $250,000. Her income from the farm has grown from $2,000 a year a few years back to as much as $50,000 for 2008." Now, OK, this is not illegal. Big Government hands out literally billions in "socialized" payments. But, come on, this isn't even a "talker" to the MSM? I mean, this is the same Michele Bachmann who has appeared on countless cable "news" shows arguing that socialism is basically three rungs of the ladder down from pedophilia, isn't it?"

Source: MinnPost - Bachmann farm gets big federal payouts but not much MSM attention

 

[The Rabbi]

Didn't the Soviet Union subsidize farms? And yet Bachman rails against social programs for the poor while she and her wealthy land owner friends rake in the Government money

Didn't the Soviet Union subsidize farms?

So did WWII Fascist Italy and Modern day left-centric Brazil, so what is your point?

The original portion of the thread is that while Bachmann bitches about other people getting public money, she has no problem with taking government money herself.

Please post where she is bitching about people taking handouts. I would guess more truthful is she is bitching about the existence of such programs in the first place. But since they are there people are doing nothing wrong taking advantage of them. They are merely responding to the warped incentive government offers. Remove the incentive.
Can you post where she voted to continue or increase farm subsidies?
But truth was never your strong point.

 

[Zona]

Both.

I actually think this might make her a Muslim too.

oh! Shit!
Next thing you know, she is going to be opening muslim schools.

Speaking of Michele Bachmann and schools, does this story rank as more or less embarrassing than the time she called Teach for America a communist plot at the same time her son was involved in the program?

Forgot about that one. That was funny.

 

[Wry Catcher]

So let me get this straight.... ANYONE that LEGALLY participates in ANY Government program is a socialist? I got that right?

SO you are admitting the Liberals are all socialists since they support and pass most of these programs?

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The point of this thread is to unjustly accuse a citizen of this Country of being something they are not because of politics. To imply they are stealing money when they are not. To imply that they are receiving unjust compensation simply because they LEGALLY participate in a Government program.

SO I assume that must mean, if this is not about politics, that ALL people that LEGALLY participate in Government programs that have some monetary component must all be the same adjectives you have chosen to heap on this one person.

Further if this is not just about attacking a political opponent that since the term bantered about is Socialist/Socialism that ANYONE that actually SUPPORTS these programs, votes for them, works to get them passed must by definition also be Socialists?

THE POINT of this thread is to expose Rep. Bachman as a HYPOCRITE. Nothing more.

 

[bodecea]

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.

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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.

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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.

Michele Bachmann: Welfare Queen - Truthdig

Tisk tisk tisk. The march of socialism indeed.

Easy to solve...cut her off and ask for a refund. I'm sure, since she hated government handouts, she will cheerfully comply.

 

[The Rabbi]

_________________The Point of this Thread___________________




______________________RGS's head_________________________

The point of this thread is to unjustly accuse a citizen of this Country of being something they are not because of politics. To imply they are stealing money when they are not. To imply that they are receiving unjust compensation simply because they LEGALLY participate in a Government program.

SO I assume that must mean, if this is not about politics, that ALL people that LEGALLY participate in Government programs that have some monetary component must all be the same adjectives you have chosen to heap on this one person.

Further if this is not just about attacking a political opponent that since the term bantered about is Socialist/Socialism that ANYONE that actually SUPPORTS these programs, votes for them, works to get them passed must by definition also be Socialists?

THE POINT of this thread is to expose Rep. Bachman as a HYPOCRITE. Nothing more.

Well, then that makes this a major THREAD FAIL.

Dumshits. Willing stooges of the Democratic party.