Michele Bachmann denies benefiting from government aid

The_Liann at 7:37 PM June 26, 2011How can she deny what she already admitted to?

Bachmann got $30 tax-free SOCIALIST cash from Minnisota for every day that she had state supplied teen babysitters in her home -- she bragged about these 23 Foster Kids at the debate. How can she deny the SOCIALIST childcare and the $900 each Foster Child contributed to paying off her mortgage?

She already admitted in indelible ink on her tax returns to getting payoff of a SOCIALIST-funded subsidized family farm that came into her bank account. How can she deny that now?

How can she deny that $30,000 worth of SOCIALIST funds trained her hubby's clinic staff to enable them to charge higher prices and see more patients?

How can she deny getting a bushel basket of $100 bills every month from the SOCIALIST funded congress salary of $174,000.00/month, or deny getting taxpayer-funded congressional cadillac pension plan and taxpayer-funded congressional cadillac-Healthcare insurance?

How can she deny she got votes from constituents by bringing home the PORK, literally begging for pork subsidy money. How can she deny that she benefits from campaign donations by big agribusiness by opposing the ending of farm subsidies?

How can she deny that she gets energy money donations from Big Oil where she quid-pro-quo keeps giving them SOCIALIST checks as tax-cheat deductions?

 

Michelle Bachmann Millionaire Socialist

 

June 17, 2011 6:26 PM

Michele Bachmann: I'll bring the voice of the people to the Oval Office

Michele Bachmann has availed herself of $30,000 SOCIALIST Medicare dollars through her husband's medical office, $30 per day ($900/month) SOCIALIST fosterkids dollars per kid x 23 kids, and more than a quarter-million SOCIALIST FARM SUBSIDY dollars. Oh, and she gets cadillac SOCIALIST healthcare plan from the Congress and a fat $140,000/yr SOCIALIST paycheck from congress. When you add it all together she is a millionaire welfare queen, who gets free babysitters for her own private school kids from the temp public school foster kids. (How much would daycare cost an absentee mom and dad with five kids they don't see most of the time?)

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Michele Bachmann, gay-curing theocrat

The surprisingly "serious" presidential candidate is even more extreme than she appears

By Alex Pareene

Michelle Goldberg's Daily Beast/Newsweek piece on Michele Bachmann's history and faith -- a strain of born-againism associated with crackpot history, opposition to science, and virulent intolerance of gays and lesbians -- shows precisely how out-there Bachmann is, even though the congresswoman these days pretends to be run-of-the-mill hard-right-winger. (Yes, her current extremism represents a moderation of her former incarnation.)

The piece begins with a wonderful recounting of the time she accused lesbians of kidnapping her and holding her hostage in a bathroom, because some ladies were talking to her. Minnesotans may know much of this already, but people familiar with Bachmann only from liberal blogs or cable news are missing the evangelical extremism that informs her every public statement. She talks like Ron Paul now, but she's Pat Robertson at heart. Her spiritual influences and advisors explicitly advocate theocracy and are obviously responsible for her garbled and twisted impression of American history.

A couple of newsy bits: Her 23 foster kids, a topic she mentions all the time? She doesn't ever go into detail about how many she has or had at any time, or for how long she fostered them:

Bachmann often says she has "raised" 23 foster children. That may be a bit of a stretch. According to the Minnesota Department of Human Services, Bachmann's license, which she had for 7 1/2 years, allowed her to care for up to three children at a time. According to Kris Harvieux, a former senior social worker in the foster-care system in Bachmann's county, some placements were almost certainly short term. "Some of them you have for a week. Some of them you have for three years, some you have for six months," says Harvieux, who also served as a foster parent herself. "She makes it sound like she got them at birth and raised them to adulthood, but that's not true."

(However many she has at a time, foster kids are a good way to make some tax-free cash from the Minnesota government, and they're not even Bachmann's sole source of free government cash.)
It's likely that her husband's clinic is at least in part dedicated to "curing" gay people:

Both she and her husband, by all accounts her most trusted political adviser, believe that homosexuality can be cured. Speaking to a Christian radio station about gay teenagers last year, Marcus, who treats gay people in his counseling practice, said, "Barbarians need to be educated. They need to be disciplined, and just because someone feels this or thinks this, doesn't mean that we're supposed to go down that road."

This is the beyond-the-pale stuff that makes Bachmann so, so much worse than Sarah Palin, to whom she is regularly compared.

Bachmann has also lied about her own family's support for her anti-gay activism. Members of her extended family have written letters to Minnesota papers criticizing her, without identifying themselves as being related to her.

She is, really, a pretty awful piece of work.

Bachmann's Unrivaled Extremism

Rep. Michele Bachmann's impressive performance at Monday's debate has catapulted her near the front of the GOP pack, but the radical roots of her ideology remain poorly understood. The Daily Beast’s Michelle Goldberg reports.

June 14, 2011 11:08 PM EDT 

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After graduating from Coburn in 1986, Bachmann went on to get a degree in tax law from William and Mary School of Law in Virginia, while her husband studied psychology and counseling at Regent University, the school founded by Pat Robertson. His thesis was about the harmful effects of day care on children. "[T]he best interests of the public would be served if one parent did not work outside of the home unless it was absolutely essential," he wrote.

Nevertheless, when Bachmann's children were small, she worked at the IRS while Marcus got his Christian counseling business up and running. Finally, in 1992, she said, "I realized my lifelong dream, which was to be a full-time mother of children at home." That same year, she received her foster care license.

Bachmann often says she has "raised" 23 foster children. That may be a bit of a stretch. According to the Minnesota Department of Human Services, Bachmann's license, which she had for 7 1/2 years, allowed her to care for up to three children at a time. According to Kris Harvieux, a former senior social worker in the foster care system in Bachmann's county, some placements were almost certainly short term. "Some of them you have for a week. Some of them you have for three years, some you have for six months," says Harvieux, who also served as a foster parent herself. "She makes it sound like she got them at birth and raised them to adulthood, but that's not true." ...

Michele Bachmann’s Baby Farm

by Ken Layne

1:31 pm November 2, 2006

Sure, you knew Michele Bachmann was a crazy pope-hating Jesus Freak and Republican candidate for Minnesota’s 6th district who’s likely to win because all those people are crazy down there, but did you know she basically runs a baby farm?

A Wonkette operative says Bachmann has five kids of her own and raised an astonishing 23 foster kids. A nice person would say, “Oh, that’s a nice thing.” But our cold-hearted operative notes that Minnesota pays $30 a day, tax free, per foster kid.



“So if Bachmann has fostered 23 children, let’s say for an average of five years, that would come out to a non-taxable $1,259,250,” the Wonk-Op writes. “No wonder she’s anti-abortion. Children are a cash crop for her.”
Michele Bachmann’s recipe for success: Christian piety and not-so-Christian opportunism [City Pages]