Bachmann Farm Subsidies: Anti-Handout Rep. Personally Got $250K

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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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Comments

[Whitley2009]

08:35 AM on 12/27/2009

Hush! Soon Sarah Palin will ask for subsidies for her Tundra just outside Wasilla.

[Littlewords]

09:15 PM on 12/26/2009

Ah yes, Bachmann a ly.ing hyp0trite socia1ist living for over a full decade off government socialist 'pork.'

Michele Bachmann criticized Obama for "Economic Marxism" just months ago while for well over a full decade she happily took government socialist subsidy pork for her farm. This means that Bachmann has for each of the past 11 years, chosen socialism over free market business. Further her actions state that each American should not have to "earn" their revenues rather than live in a socialist pork programs.
Let's not forgot that for the last several years, Bachmann has also been collecting her congressional tax payer subsidized pay on top of her farm collected subsidies. Evidently our tax dollars paying her salary in congress is just not enough subsidy nor enough living off the government's for Bachmann.

[Nikkiru]

12:39 PM on 01/08/2010

Not to mention the government-administered health care that comes with her congresscritter gig!

[rollingdivision]

09:03 PM on 12/26/2009

Great point! We need to end all socialism, corporatism and fascism, including farm programs.

[myvoice09]

07:20 PM on 12/26/2009

Feinstein's husband has made BILLIONS is special no-bid government contracts! Where's the outrage from all the "Haliburton" liberals? Hyprocrisy knows no end!

[swift goat pet for truth]

09:37 PM on 12/26/2009

The same place the GOPer voices are when whining about the few millions ACORN got while being quiet about the $Billions Halliburton got for some shocking showers they built in Iraq.

[Billar]

03:45 PM on 12/26/2009

Clean up the corruption in DC. Vote them all out.

[Usama]

12:56 AM on 12/27/2009

LOL. So you're saying there should be nobody in office? Im all for that actually.

[jcko]

03:35 PM on 12/26/2009

REAL welfare is for the REAL Americans [Palin's America].

REAL taxes are for the poor.

[jesselee26]

02:17 PM on 12/26/2009

to quote the all wise snoop dogg: "gotta get yours before i get mine!"

[ProudMilVet]

12:47 AM on 12/26/2009

After reading this story, is there any doubt now about the rest of the civilized world either laughing at us or simply shaking their heads in utter amazement ?

[fairplaystacy]

08:46 PM on 12/25/2009

Welfare Queen

[Blitzschnell]

08:28 PM on 12/25/2009

Michele,
Do tell,
Why are you so hypocritical,
My Michele?

(Apologies to the Beatles)

[jcko]

03:36 PM on 12/26/2009

She not.

It's entitlement for REAL Americans. Ask Sarah about the bridge.

[speechteach]

03:21 PM on 12/25/2009

Just read in our local paper, which serves both eastern ND and western MN, that Minnesota stands to possibly lose one of its representatives due to the changing populations in the various states. By not accurately completing census forms, Minnesota may not only lose a representative, it also stands to forfeit hundreds of millions of government dollars. Remember when "deer in the headlights" Michelle encouraged people in her state to not complete census forms because she didn't want the government to get personal information? How can the people in her district continue to elect such a misinformed person to speak for them? If the teabaggers continue to support her and Palin, it tells you something about their intelligence.

[jcko]

03:39 PM on 12/26/2009

Shhhh!

Palin/Bachman 2012

[UncleJimbo]

04:42 AM on 12/25/2009

After Suckling at the Teat of Government......She forgot to wipe off her Milk Moustache!

[QRS]

01:38 AM on 12/25/2009

okay correct me if i am wrong, but hasn't she adopted a bunch of kids, and in turn gets money from the government? I will end it there...

[Stilts9]

01:21 AM on 12/25/2009

This is what Ronald Reagan warned us about: welfare queens.

[QRS]

12:51 AM on 12/25/2009

This is an outrage! .. She is staunchly against "government handouts" (as she calls it) for others, but is okay for she and family... She needs to publicly address this, as to where exactly she stands on this...It is this hypocrisy that I am against.