Young Turks: Is Michele Bachmann a Welfare Queen?

[CherylK]

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[Joanne98]

1. Get her GOOD! It's just half of the story though. She's been milking

the foster care system too!

[12string]

2. Michelle Bachman

Welfare queen.Good job Cenk and Truthdig.Do you have any links to the foster care program you mentioned?

[Joanne98]

4. No she hasn't been busted for that yet. But just do the math.......

She's taken in over 20 foster care children. Each child comes with a check!

She must be a big fan of Randall Terry. He milked the foster care system too and he BRAGGED ABOUT IT ON HIS RADIO SHOW IN 1995! Too bad we didn't have media matters back then.

[BluDemocratGirl]

5. I can't wait for that!

...and I wonder what her so-called teabagging fools are gonna say about this.

[DMNinFL]

14. Here are a few comments from a right wing board

It seems they are in denial. :shrug:

>>So she's supposed to refuse the government payments, just because she doesn't agree with them. Just another bunch of left BS. I bet there are congressmen that voted against pay raises, but they take them too.

>>Irrelevant. The tea bag demonstrations weren't organized by politicians they were organized by citizens sick of government corruption and spending. Whether or not politicians try to use that sentiment to their advantage has nothing to do with the either the validity or the purpose of the sentiment itself.

>>Apples and oranges. It's like saying she drinks wine with her dinner, therefore she's against the war on illegal drugs. Or he races dragsters on the weekends and drinks beer on the weekends, therefore he's against speed limits, tough drunk driving laws and mandatory auto insurance


Here is my FAVORITE!!!!

>>Why are you proto-socialists so GULLIBLE?
Or are you just a leftist stooge intentionally trying to deceive?
(it ain't working...)

Probably more to come. I dropped the article into a righty message board. I have yet to respond to the above posts. If you have any idea, please let me know.

[newmac]

6. Bachmann has a farm? So what farm do we now need to boycott?

Anyone know what its called?

[WhoIsNumberNone]

12. She probably doesn't grow anything there-

I'd guess one of those deals where the government pays her not to grow anything.

[DMNinFL]

3. Oh Boy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I frequent a a right wing message board. This is gonna be great!! Some heads are going to explode over there!:rofl:

[jillan]

7. Cenk needs his own show on Msnbc -

replacing Tweety would be fine with me!

[Plucketeer]

8. Melting butter could replace Tweety

Like Chris, it tends to flow whichever way the plate's tilted.

[spicegal]

9. Republicans are, and I suspect always will be, hypocrites and liars.

I love Cenk. He always does a great job of calling these people out. Too bad our MSM news organizations don't do half as good a job of exposing the lies and hypocrisy.

[veganlush]

10. this is "THEE" story that everyone should be pressing on..

I have been living in frustration over this for a long time, as apparently one of the few people who can see this huge hypocrisy. The rich are the real welfare queens-shout it from the rooftops and tell everyone you know until it becomes common wisdom. If you haven't seen "Food Inc." the time has come. Buy a copy and lend it around. This is "THEE" vulnerability that we need to exploit when it comes to the Repugnants, many of whom are Welfare Queens like bachmann and many more who cluelessly, and so far, invisibly, promote it.

[veganlush]

11. Thank you CherylK and Cenk!...n/t

[WhoIsNumberNone]

13. It's not welfare when it's for rich people

:sarcasm:

[hmorehead]

15. We mirror China's two system, one country: here the rich get the benifits of socialism.

[ljm2002]

16. Excellent!

So glad Cenk is bringing this up. What did he say, $178 Billion overall for farm subsidies? But the powers that be are very very good at framing "farming subsidies" as "helping the survival of the family farms and the good and wholesome, salt-of-the-earth folk". Of course in reality, farming in this day and age is largely done by corporate agribusiness.

K&R