pointed out in this space before, has a family farm that has received over a quarter of million dollars in direct cash from the federal government. that is, of course, in addition to her federal salary of $174,000 for her real full-time job as a member of congress. thanks to sam stein at the huffington post today, with we now have yet another example of back bachmann political dependence, career dependence on socialism. the huffington post obtained a letter bachmann wrote on october 5th, 2009, to the obama administration secretary of agriculture recall thanking him for government intervention in the pork industry. that s right, government intervention in the market. she wrote, your efforts to stabilize prices through direct
everyone who rants against socialism in this country, she doesn t know what socialism is. as i ve pointed out here before, we have good socialism and bad socialism, and the socialism that michele bachmann openly advocates is very, very bad socialism. it is worst kind of socialism. it is intervention in the market simply because the government doesn t like the price that the market would find through free market forces. even sean hannity who is normally at least as confused about socialism as michele bachmann is doesn t like this particular piece of socialism. before hannity knew bachmann was involved in this socialistic scandal, he wrote a note on his blog opposing it, beginning with the very hannity line, your tax dollars are being used to buy a lot of pork, and i mean
go ahead. that s a tax bracket that s still lower than the highest tax bracket under ronald reagan. so clearly people who bring in a billion dollars a year could certainly afford that. and i think we should call on their patriotism. i have signed on in support of my legislation. they re really saying for the sake of our country, i m more than happy to pay more. congresswoman jan schakowsky, thank you very much for your bill and thanks for explaining it to us and joining us tonight. coming up, the breaking news tonight on the newt gingrich campaign. his problems with tiffany s are getting much, much worse tonight. and michele bachmann says she s against socialism even even though we have written evidence, a letter from her, where she supports pure socialism, agricultural socialism. bachmann s hypocrisy gets her in
lie about tax cuts. tax cuts does not raise revenue. tonight, even more painful republican truth thing. now just a few republicans in the house are saying they could be for raising tax revenue. congresswoman jan shah cow skis a a plan to raise the rates on the super rich. she will join me next. in the rewrite, if michele bachmann really thinks that socialism is so bad then why did she write a letter begging, just begging for socialistic handouts for her district? [ female announcer ] the healing power of touch
literally, exclamation point. i ve never thought our politics would allow me to say this, and i have no idea expectation of ever being able to say it again. but on michele bachmann s pork socialism, i agree with with sean hannity. tempur-ped