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Reba K
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Reba K asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

Why didn't Republican Michele Bachmann admit to being a farm welfare queen?

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.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/michelle_bachm...

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    How does one spell hypocricy? G O P

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No surprise.

    95% of incumbents from both parties are heavily corrupted and must be removed.

    Some Republicans tried to posture as "populists" when they realized the Tea Party was more popular than the Republican party.

    But it was all posturing. I didn't like Republicans trying to hijack that Tea Party thing anyway. They didn't start it and don't really support it.

  • Tryad
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    I for one don't like subsidies, but with the laws and taxes are on farmers they have no choice but to subsidize them, or the farmer would go out of business. And we should not have to compete with the global markets that is what has destroyed our economy and our jobs. They have been shipped out our illegal labor brought in stealing what was once good paying American jobs. In all honesty if we have to subsidize farms even though I don't like, at least they are providing a service and jobs, unlike subsidizing people on welfare who provide absolutely nothing to our community except irresponsibility, drugs, crime and of course laziness. I do realize this is a generalization, even I know there are exceptions to the rule, but mind you they are only exceptions.

  • 1 decade ago

    Ummmmmmmmmmmmmm.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    That certainly doesn't mean she should be Pro-Obama, by any stretch.

  • 1 decade ago

    The truth will never pass her lips--never has and she will not start now.*

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