"Michele Bachman: Welfare Queen" ???

Surprise!!! Oh, wait, no... This isn't a surprise at all.

 

One set of rules for them, different set for "us" common folk!

 

Most if not all small farms today rely on agricultural subsidies on either milk (dairy), grain (corn) or a variety of meat subsidies that members of both parties have approved for decades for small farms. Just so, hundreds of thousands of residents of every town, city, and state in the country, have been on welfare subsidies for decades. Is your point to selectively single out Michele Bachman, Chuck Grassley, Sam Brownback, Max Baucus, Blanche Lincoln, and Stephanie Sandlin to some standard that all this nation's politicians (local, state, and federal) should be held?

 

I really hope this is some attempt at humor 'cause I really, truly, honestly want to find it hard to believe that you can't see the hypocrisy of someone speaking out vehemently against government subsidies while at the same time receiving government subsidies.


Lethal

 

Funny joke?!

I'm assume you understand the OP's point, not that the subsidies are inherently wrong, but when your political life is based on "teh government is evil and socialist!", you likely shouldn't be take government money

 

I was not taking specific exception to the "hypocrisy" alleged (one can find "hypocrisy" from all politicians if you dig deep enough); more important, as I maintained in my prior post, I was curious if the article's author would subject this criticism to all politicians since the article was overtly partisan; i.e., the first sentence: "...well known for her anti-government tea-bagger antics..."which seems strange since Michele Bachmann is the United States Representative of Minnesota's 6th Congressional District - so the "anti-government" claim is a bit over the top!

 

You deal with either having farm subsidies or relying on your food coming from overseas, I will take the former rather than the later. Its in the government's/people's interest and it doesn't make someone a "welfare queen".

 

So if your father in-law gets subsidies I can call you a welfare queen?

 

Perhaps is Macky-Mac's family was also getting the subsidies, and speaking against government involvement in the "free market"...then yes..

 

Just for anyone keeping score:

The World According To InTheNet
Working for the government -> Theft from the American Taxpayers
Accepting Subsidies from the Government -> Perfectly Acceptable way to earn a living

 

My posts questioned whether the article's author* would subject such criticism of Bachmann to all politicians since the article was overtly partisan.

*Yasha Levine (from Truth Dig) which self-identifies itself as "A Progressive Journal"

 

If it means I can eat food that was grown here: yes. I don't think we should subsidize at quite the level we do, but giving up our nation's food capacity and letting some foreign nation feed us seems a bit short sighted.

 

Ah, I love when people can take general stances against something, but find it perfectly acceptable when and only when it can benefit them in some way. If only we had a word for that kind of mentality...

 

Overly partisan? It went and pointed out democrats that do the same damn thing!

 

If you don't see any problem with our food supply being controlled by foreign nations I don't know what to say. We can't live without food, we can live without cars, planes, other ********. This article seems to be anti-food subsidies, something I think is valuable if we want to keep our nation secure.

 

Giving up our food capacity? Most corn in the US, for example, is not even fit for human consumption but genetically engineered to be used in industrial applications (animal feed, fuel, food additives, etc.,). Tons of corn gets destroyed each year because it's more profitable in the short term to grow corn and let it rot because of the subsidy. The idea of the subsidy is good, but the execution is lacking.

But now we are gettin' kinda OT.

Really? It's not anti-food subsidies. It's just pointing out another example of hypocrisy by some of our elected officials. In this specific case it's pointing out people who rail against, and vote against, government subsidies yet in fact have made a lot of money from government subsidies themselves.


Lethal

 

I'd just like to see Bachman's stance on the issue.

 

As soon as I saw the name I gave up even trying to follow the discussion

 

My apologies, please let me correct my post:

Sources According To InTheNet:
Contains the word "progressive" -> "overtly partisan"
Contains the word "conservative" -> Legitimate news source not to be questioned

That about right?

My point was that you aren't capable of having an on-topic conversation on here.

 

Its not hypocrisy to rally against one type of subsidy while getting paid by another. Some people view some subsidies as good, others bad.

 

So for this thread, in your view, "on-topic" would mean bashing Minnesota's Representative from the 6th District? Or defending her as I have done? Which is "on-topic" in your view?