Congressman who Attacked ‘Fit’ Couple on Food Stamps Took $370,000 In Stimulus

[babylonsister]

http://www.politicususa.com/2013/08/14/congressman-attacked-fit-couple-food-stamps-received-370000-federal-stimulus-dollars.html

Congressman who Attacked ‘Fit’ Couple on Food Stamps Took $370,000 In Stimulus

By: Keith Brekhus
Aug. 14th, 2013


Congressman Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) who blasted a “physically fit” couple for using food stamps at a suburban Virginia grocery store, collected 370,000 dollars in federal stimulus money for his Oklahoma plumbing company. Mullin who brags about turning the plumbing company into a successful business never mentions the government help he received to make it thrive. Or if he did not need the money to prop up his plumbing firm, he never mentions that his business was “physically fit” and that he did not actually need stimulus money to keep it afloat.

Mullin has become a text book case in Republican hypocrisy. He attacks food stamp recipients for collecting a couple hundred dollars a month in assistance needed to eat, but says no word about collecting 370,000 dollars in federal assistance to install toilets and lay pipes. To be fair, the projects that the stimulus money funded, which included building affordable housing in Northeast Oklahoma, are probably worthy projects. The problem is that Mullin is so quick to judge others for using federal money and that he espouses vehement anti-government rhetoric while he pockets federal money.

After winning his GOP House primary in 2012, Mullin remarked “government needs to have a limited role in our lives. We can take care of ourselves.” Of course, it is easier to take care of yourself after the federal government cuts you a few checks totaling 370 grand. No wonder Mr. Mullin looks so physically fit. Like Michelle Bachmann who enriched herself as a tax attorney for the IRS, Markwayne Mullin has gotten wealthy with the help of the federal government. Like Bachmann, Congressman Mullin then turns around and attacks federal spending in order to curry favor with the Tea Party base that feeds off of his rabid anti-government rhetoric. Mullin seems to think feeding people or providing relief for hurricane victims is wasteful government spending, but when there are hundreds of thousands of dollars available to subsidize his business he is at the front of the line with his hand out. Like so many of the Tea Party firebrands, Congressman Markwayne Mullin is a hypocrite of the first magnitude.

[Dawson Leery]

1. Mr. Mullin supports agro-welfare (to which he will benefit)

http://newsok.com/farm-bill-faces-opposition-inside-and-outside-of-oklahoma/article/3852604

AND opposes SNAP.

Kill the Bill! The Farm Bill that is.

[Gormy Cuss]

4. He's really an idiot then

since the reason SNAP is a USDA program is that it part of its mission from day one was to promote sale of surplus ag products.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/rules/Legislation/about.htm

[ck4829]

2. So according to anti-poor-eating, it's bad if you buy junk food on food stamps, bad if you are fit..

Bad if you buy junk food
Bad if you buy 'luxury' food
Bad if you are physically unhealthy, like obese
Bad if you are physically healthy

At this point, I guess the only person they would want on food stamps would be Terri Schiavo.

[DesertFlower]

3. well said. nt

[Rain Mcloud]

8. "At this point, I guess the only person they would want on food stamps would be Terri Schiavo."

What about the Holy,Blessed,Sacred and Sacrosanct Infants?
They could bank up the Snap bennies for each Ocyte and then revoke those benefits after insemination and finally birth,i can hear the howls of laughter from the Okie State House now.
Who says service to God has to be serious alla the time?

[LeftishBrit]

18. Not even that

They aren't interested in ensuring good nutrition and prenatal care for pregnant mothers, or avoiding pollutants that increase the risk of miscarriages and birth defects.

[1StrongBlackMan]

14. Or ...

themselves cuz they earned it!

[BlueManFan]

5. Hypocritical republican is redundant.

[Norrin Radd]

6. kr

[Faryn Balyncd]

7. k and r

[tdb63]

9. Foodstamps for fetuses only.

Republicans would only approve foods stamps for the unborn.

[burrowowl]

10. And of course not the Mother!

[valerief]

16. Bingo! nt

[Blue Idaho]

11. Your food stamps are getting in the way of my graft and corruption. nt.

[Cha]

12. Markwayne Mullin needs to ask himself..

"why am I such a fucking hypocrite? "

[JBoy]

13. He's clearly a self-made man.

Being a plumber, he was able to turn himself into a douchebag.

[dmr]

20. Why, I bet he tells everyone he's not a 'taker',

nobody ever helped him. Yes, he did it all by himself.

I wish we could require that he repay the government, plus interest.

[tblue37]

22. That's precisely what Dick Cheney claimed in his debate with John Edwards--even though he had

plenty of taxpayer help in his business ventures.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. He's a skinhead thug wearing a neck blood-flow restricter (tie) for supposed respectability.

See photo at OP link.

[surrealAmerican]

17. It should surprise nobody ...

... that there are people who are physically capable of work on food stamps. The problem is not that these are "faulty" people, but that there are not enough jobs that pay a living wage for all the people who need them.

We need to stop blaming poor people for the lack of jobs in this country.

[freshwest]

19. Those who are 'first at the government trough' do most of the complaining, I've found. Then they

start singing the 'It's mine!' song.

They refuse to pay tax on the profits and don't want anyone else to sidle up beside them while they're being fed.

Is it guilt? Or just more selfish assholery?

[midnight]

21. There seems to be a pattern of this hypocrisy by those living off the Govt..

[hobbit709]

23. Scratch a repuke, find a hypocrite underneath.

[lcordero2]

24. there are some very nasty and malicious people in Congress

They want to kill people by starving them to death.