Her Majesty Michele Bachmann, Welfare Queen

Gosh, I wonder how those tax-hating, welfare-loathing “teabaggers” are going to feel about their Queen when they find out that she’s a freeloading leech?

And she ain’t no cheap leech, either. Nah, a few food stamps ain’t gonna satisfy the Queen. She lives royally, and that takes some serious money. And serious money is exactly what she and her family have been leeching from the taxpayers.

The stench of hypocrisy from these “conservatives” waters the eyes and empties the wallet.

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) — so fond of accusing the Obama administration of foisting socialism on an unwilling America — has apparently been the recipient of about a quarter of million bucks in government handouts.

Liberal site Truthdig links to an Environmental Working Group analysis of federal agricultural subsidies and found that the Bachmann family farm, managed by her father-in-law until his recent death, received $251,000 in farm payments between 1995 and 2006.

Bachmann’s financial disclosure forms indicate her stake in the Wisconsin farm is worth up to $250,000. Her income from the farm has grown from $2,000 a year a few years back to as much as $50,000 for 2008.

Truthdig calls her a “Welfare Queen”:

Bachmann’s family farm received $251,973 in federal subsidies between 1995 and 2006. The farm had been managed by Bachmann’s recently deceased father-in-law and took in roughly $20,000 in 2006 and $28,000 in 2005, with the bulk of the subsidies going to dairy and corn. Both dairy and corn are heavily subsidized — or “socialized” — businesses in America (in 2005 alone, Washington spent $4.8 billion propping up corn prices) and are subject to strict government price controls.

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.

And there you have it, AGAIN. These freeloading Rushpubliscums don’t want anybody but the ultrarich to have healthcare, but they see fleecing the taxpayers as their RIGHT.

Over and over again, the Rushpubliscums and their idiot “teabagger” followers insist that they are the ones you can trust with YOUR money. And over and over again, just the opposite proves to be true. Why don’t these freeloaders go out and do something to contribute to society, instead of always leeching from it?

Crossposted at Reconstitution.

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