LA TIMES: "Sen. Joni Ernst learned to 'live within her means' -- on the taxpayer's dime"

[marym625]

150. I don't like coming back after I say I'm done

But this has irked me since you replied.

Did you read the article? No where in it does it say she received, or her family received, the government aid while she was at home. It even states, like you and another agreed would be the right question, "We called Ernst's Senate office to ask how this record comports with her ostensible distaste for individual reliance on the federal government, but there was no answer and the line wasn't taking messages."

The article does just what I stated we should do, call her out on her hypocrisy. The last sentence even states, quite clearly, she was not at home during the years in question, "The database of farm subsidies dates back only to 1995, when Ernst was already 25; but if that period is any indication, her family was probably doing quite nicely even before then, thanks to her fellow taxpayers. "

I agree that the headline is misleading. We don't know if it is true or not, so it shouldn't have been worded as it was. But the article is true, correct and important. She is a hypocrite, a liar and a cheat.

Now, I'm really done.