Bachmann attacks $1.2B payout for black farmers

[azurnoir]

Source: startribune

Congress gave the final go-ahead Tuesday to a landmark $1.2 billion settlement compensating black farmers for decades of discrimination, even as Minnesota Republican Michele Bachmann and other conservatives charged that the deal is riddled with fraudulent claims.

The long-delayed package, negotiated by the Obama administration, could award some $50,000 each to thousands of African-Americans who claimed they were unjustly denied loans and assistance from the federal Agriculture Department in the 1980s and '90s. Right up until the final 256-152 vote in the House, Bachmann -- along with Iowa Republican Steve King and others -- called for an investigation of the settlement, known as Pigford II.

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Boyd, one of the architects of the deal, criticized Bachmann for inserting herself in the longstanding dispute, noting that her family farm received more than $250,000 in farm subsidies over the past decade while the Pigford case was being litigated.

"She got hers, and black farmers have been systematically shut out of the farm subsidy program," Boyd said on his way to the Capitol to witness the historic vote on the measure that passed the Senate earlier this month.

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Bachmann emphasized that any subsidies going to the farm were for her in-laws. "I'm very proud of them," she said. "They came to the United States essentially to get away from socialism in Europe."


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[underpants]

1. It was blatant and obvious

pay me now or pay me later

[rfranklin]

2. They escaped socialism to collect government subsidies in the USA

which is nothing like socialism. :sarcasm:

[Angry Dragon]

3. and her husband gets Medicaid payments for

the christian based clinic he runs

Have her show a case that is fraud then ......... back up your claims with facts
you loony piece of ........

[Historic NY]

4. K&R....they needed gubermint help to make it.

[Raschel]

12. AND she shouldn't have taken gvt. help for those foster children. Teabaggers believe in

giving privately to those they WANT to give to, not who the govt makes them give to.

They believe in private charity only.

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. LOL

[Raschel]

11. Why didn't her relatives pull themselves up by their bootstraps like a good teabagger?

According to Limbaugh, Beck, Palin, Bachmann - that's what they're supposed to do.

According to tbaggers they don't want to support 'these' kind of people anymore.

Isn't that what tbaggers are against? Handouts? Welfare, healthcare, you're not entitled to anything blah blah.

[Fruittree]

17. Absolutely -

I keep wishing the people who support them would just figure out how they're being lied to and manipulated but it just never seems to happen.

[harvey007]

5. Bachmann is such a hypocrite

http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/1209/Antisocialist_Bachmann_got_250k_in_federal_farm_subsidies.html

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/09/21/miller_admits_getting_farm_subsidies.html

http://farm.ewg.org/

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2002/04/Farm-Subsidies-for-the-Rich-amp-Famous-Shattered-Records-in-2001

[applegrove]

6. One word:

Hypocrite

[Hawkeye-X]

8. Hey Fuckman - how about you giving up OUR money

That's our money you're ripping off by getting paid - Go suck a lobbyist teat instead of our money.

Hawkeye-X

[truthisfreedom]

9. "They came to the United States... to get away from socialism" and collect $250k in farm subsidies.

Michele, sweetie, you're such a gem. You can't make this shit up!

[Raschel]

10. She's very proud of their socialism?

[Raschel]

13. I'm glad Ellison called her out on her L-I-E-S and that Boyd took her to task.

She's been skating for too long on her lies, with the media reporting her remarks as erroneous to make them seem palatable.

[Turbineguy]

14. Her In-laws came to get away from socialism?

Oh, she must mean the Marshall Plan.

[LaPera]

15. Bachmann's duplicity of welfare (government subsidies) over socialism - is an idiots distinction!

Bachmann's lies and hypocrisy are so glaringly obvious laced with racist & hateful republican ideological elitism....it's as sickening & nauseating as whenever Bachmann's opens her worthless wretched vile disgusting republican mouth!

Shut the fuck fuck up you dumb bitch!!

[lafayettelonewolf]

16. Thank you, Michelle....

for proving to the WHOLE world that you are stupid, moronic, AND racist. Now shut the hell up, you two-cent crybaby!

[Zoeisright]

18. Fuck you Bachmann.

Now STFU.