As some of you may know, my wife and I own a small farm. We have 25 chickens, two goats, and a too-large truckpatch in which we raise hot peppers and other vegetables. Most of our 23 acres is farmed by a neighbor, who pays us $90 a year in rent. We get no price supports or subsidies from the federal government. Zilch. Nada. Zip.
Michelle Bachman, Tea Party presidential candidate, right-wing anti-government activist, and proud capitalist, receives thousands and thousands of federal dollars for her farm. She says she doesn’t get the money personally. The farmworkers she hires are the recipients. Really. She said that.
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