Bachmann has love-hate affair with government (she has taken a lot of Government help)

[annm4peace]

http://www.startribune.com/local/128290433.html
written by local MN Newspaper columnist, Jon Tevlin

(I just posted the sentences I liked the best, good facts to share with friends and family who think Bachman is a true conservative)


" Tim Pawlenty and Michele Bachmann, had at least one thing in common: They both claimed to want the evil government off our backs.
Tt's an interesting notion from two people who have spent much of their lives on the government's back."


"I'm a mom; I'm not a politician," Bachmann said shortly before winning the poll."



" On the other hand, the Star Tribune reporter and a writer for the New Yorker magazine talked to several attorneys who worked with Bachmann at the IRS, and they all said Bachmann was good at something: using those cushy government benefits she criticizes so much. They said Bachmann was on maternity leave much of the time during her stint at the IRS "


"It's not the first time the Big Bad Government rhetoric didn't match reality. It's been widely reported that Bachmann's family has received nearly $260,000 in federal farm subsidies on her father-in-law's farm, of which she is a partner. Also well known is the $24,000 her husband's clinic got from the state and feds for a training program.

Could that mean that the government actually has a function and can be what is lovingly called a "job creator"?



" In fact, all the while Bachmann was railing against "pork" projects and stimulus money, she had her hand out. A Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Huffington Post found Bachmann sought federal government help or aid on at least 16 separate occasions. Sixteen.""

That's a funny comment to come from a person who a few months earlier had begged EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to support a $270,806 grant application from Voigt's Bus Service in St. Cloud so the company could purchase newer, more energy-efficient motor coaches."


"Bachmann has said government spending "would make any local smorgasbord embarrassed." Yet she has seemed willing at times to treat the government like an Old Country Buffet, even as she complains about its large portions"

:rofl:

[MplsAnnie]

1. Soooooo hypocritical - I will never understand what people see in her.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. Bachmann took all that government money so she could learn how to fight government waste

It was a big sacrifice that she made, taking all that free money. But she was a trooper.

[toddwv]

3. Well, now she doesn't need all that help from the gubmint 'cause she's getting paid

by the government...

[annm4peace]

4. great site to find out more about Bachmann and her actions

http://www.dumpbachmann.com/



and here are some great moments in the past

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2009/12/michele_bachmanns_worst_moments.php