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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Ah, the great healthcare debate..

I refuse to enter into it, ‘the debate over healthcare’. It should be a no-brainer as far as I am concerned.

But the rightwingers are using lies and obfuscation. This severely jerks my chain. The talking points are all the same, and frankly, I can’t believe people are buying into them.

Even my friggin orthopedic surgeon’s office is on the bandwagon. I went to the doc’s this morning and at the end of the ‘visit’, I brought up Obama’s speechifying to the AMA yesterday.

The short of it is this:

The Physician’s Assistant (whom I always see instead of the actual doctor) used the word socialism to describe Obama’s plan. He is against socialized medicine.

What does he think the Workers Compensation system is for Christs sake? His boss makes a fortune off of work injuries..enough to finance a horsefarm…I shit you not.

Yet, he is against socialized medicine. Free Market, thats the ticket!

But The Big O’s plan allows for free market health insurance. He said so yesterday at the AMA. He said anyone that tells you otherwise is full of shit. Not quite in those words of course.

My medical provider then said we will have less people that want to be doctors and especially specialists. The years spent going to school will not turn into a huge money making empire for the students when they graduate in 6-8 years he said.

I thought most medical professionals got into it to heal and help the human race. Lofty goals eh?

Pardon the fuck outta me for being so delusional and silly to think that.

Guess they are aiming for the same things those fuckwits on Wall Street are…money money and more money.

Maybe that explains the lack of ‘bedside manner’ in most doctors I see these days. With the exception of my primary care physician..most of them are assholes acting like they are doing me a favor by seeing and/or treating me. They hate being asked questions or as one of them put it recently:

Being grilled by you Miss Taylor.

Asking a lot of questions about your illness and treatment options doesn’t go over too well with a lot of doctors these days.

I just don’t know anymore…who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.

The lines  get blurred.

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I’ll be glad to assist Ann Coulter!

Please don’t get the impression that she haunts my waking moments or anything other than the fact that she says things that are blatantly ridiculous, so I present an ad from Human Events, starring Ann Coulter, this time for money to help stop the Fairness Doctrine.

I’ll merely show you the subject line of the email:

Help stop my nightmares!

Now I can’t full credit for what I’m thinking when I read this; I have a Queen-sized pillow behind my back on this chair, because I like to sit up straight, but boy howdy, I sure know what I’d like to do with it now…

Crossposted from comments @The Dark Wraith Forums

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