Michelle Bachmann and her family have taken nearly $300,000 in Government handouts in the past five years. That's enough to make a whole fleet of Ronald Reagan's "Cadillac-driving Welfare Queens" blush.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bachmann-20110626,0,1896024.story
Reporting from Washington—
Rep. Michele Bachmann has been propelled into the 2012 presidential contest in part by her insistent calls to reduce federal spending, a pitch in tune with the big-government antipathy gripping many conservatives.
But the Minnesota Republican and her family have benefited personally from government aid, an examination of her record and finances shows. A counseling clinic run by her husband has received nearly $30,000 from the state of Minnesota in the last five years, money that in part came from the federal government. A family farm in Wisconsin, in which the congresswoman is a partner, received nearly $260,000 in federal farm subsidies.
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