Michele Bachmann has become well known for her anti-government tea-bagger antics, protesting health care reform and every other government handout as socialism, but what her followers dont know is that she’s a Welfare Queen. Thats right… the anti-government insurrectionist has taken more than a quarter-million dollars in government handouts thanks to farm subsidies she’s been collecting for at least 10 years. Bachmann has called for a revolution against what she sees as Obama’s socialist takeover of America, but data compiled from federal records by Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit watchdog that tracks the recipients of agricultural subsidies in the United States, shows that Bachmann’s family farm received $251973 in federal subsidies between 1995 and 2006. But Bachmann doesn’t think other Americans should benefit from such assistance. She voted against every foreclosure relief bill aimed at helping average homeowners (despite the fact that her district had the highest foreclosure rate in Minnesota), saying that bailing out homeowners would be “rewarding the irresponsible while punishing those who have been playing by the rules.” Thats right – the Subsidy Queen wants the rest of us to be responsible. Bachmanns financial disclosure forms indicate that her personal stake in the family farm is worth up to $250000 (thus far), a second government-subsidized income to go with her job as a government-paid congresswoman who makes $174000 per year (in addition to having …
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