WELFARE QUEEN: MICHELE BACHMANN'S Farm Received Over $250,000 in Federal Subsidies

[grassfed]

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.

Michele Bachmann's Farm Received Over $250,000 in Federal Subsidies

[Mz Pip]

1. Good catch

I just sent this to my rw cousin whose last email berated some woman at the market he saw buying chips and Arizona Iced Tea with food stamps.

I'm sure he'll titally miss the hypocricy on this one.

[grassfed]

5. Chuck Grassley and Sam Brownback also took Federal Handouts

Yr cousin may be interested to know that Chuck Grassley and Sam Brownback also took Federal Handouts.

[dchill]

2. krnt

[MattBaggins]

3. Man I wish i was in congress

just so I could get on the floor in one of those late night sessions and just read this article into the record.

[rurallib]

4. Chuckles Grassley and famil have hauled in well over a million in the past decade

Few people are more against welfare than Chuckles. He'd rather see someone die in the street than get socialized medicine

[tabasco]

6. She needs to repay that money!

I'm sure it's all a big mistake!

She wouldn't keep that socialist communistic handout.

[Lilyeye]

7. How ironic that the anti "handout" idiots are the biggest welfare queens going.

I love it!

[BrklynLiberal]

8. Hypocritical has beocme such a common adjective to describe the repukes that it almost

has lost some of the impact it should have.

[patrice]

9. DU -ly Shared and Thanks very much!!

:hi:

[grassfed]

10. Top Four districts receiving the Largest Handouts are represented by conservative Republicans

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.