Michele Bachman tells FOX News in 2009 "I don't need government to be successful."

[mikekohr]

Truth is, since 1995 she has taken nearly $290,000 in state and federal grants and subsidies.

Bachman routinely blasts "socialized medicine" yet has taken, just since 2006, approximately $24,041 from the Minnesota state Department of Human Services for her Bachmann & Associates clinic, to aid in training her staff.

Bachman blasted the 2008 Farm bill as "loaded with unbelievably outrageous pork and subsidies for agricultural business and ethanol growers." Yet from 1995-2008, a farm she owns in partnership has collected approx. $260,000.00 in corn and dairy subsidies.

source: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bachmann-20110626,0,1896024.story

-For the record, Bachman's haul of $290,000.00, is $290,000.00 more than I have ever received from state and federal monies. Ever-

[Enrique]

1. "I was on food stamps! No one ever helped me!"

Craig Nelson on the Fox News Channel.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. Don't forget the ever popular:

"Keep your government hands off my Medicare!!!"
:crazy:

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. Am I the only one that wants to tell that Bachman woman, 'Oh shut up, sh*thead!"???

Every time she opens her piehole she sounds like some low I.Q. Nazi.

[Mimosa]

4. No! I'm with you, Sarah Ibarruri!

ITA with your description of Bachmann.

[LiberalFighter]

3. I guess she doesn't want the government to provide roads

so clients can go to her clinic. Or provide clean water for everyone to drink. Or responders to show up for a fire or criminal problem.

[mikekohr]

5. She Could Give Back The $290,000.00 She Took Out Of Our Pockets

or not. I'm betting on the latter.

[mikekohr]

6. -Breaking News- NBC is reporting that since 2005 a previously undisclosed $137,000.00,

has been collected by the Bachman's from Medicare. see link at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43570552/ns/politics-decision_2012
Bachman has decribed Medicare as expanding the welfare rolls. It certainly has benefited her welfare.

[Yavin4]

7. So Says the Woman with a High Paying Job with Great Govt Benefits

who is running for a better government jobs with better pay and better benefits.

[bhikkhu]

8. Add in payments for 23 foster kids

...and that sum of government money could go way higher. As said by someone else here - is there any government program she hasn't taken advantage of?