Tea Party Hypocrisy? Some Lawmakers With Tea Party Ties Are on the Government Dole

[kpete]

Source: ABC

Tea Party Hypocrisy? Some Lawmakers With Tea Party Ties Are on the Government Dole
Which Tea Partiers Are Getting Hundreds of Thousands of Government Dollars?

391 COMMENTS BY JONATHAN KARL AND AVERY MILLER
March 31, 2011


The Tea Party swept into the 112th Congress with promises of cutting government spending. But according to a report out today, at least five lawmakers with Tea Party connections have been longtime recipients of federal agricultural subsidies.

"There's nothing too surprising about hypocrisy in Washington," Ken Cook, president of Environmental Working Group, told ABC News. "This particular group, you not only have to look at the hypocrisy but you need to watch your wallet."

While the majority of American farmers receive no government money at all, at least 23 current members of congress or their families have received government money for their farms -- combining for more than $12 million since 1995 according to a new report from the Environmental Working Group.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tea-party-hypocrisy-lawmakers-tea-party-ties-government/story?id=13259014&page=1

[SpiralHawk]

1. RepubliBaggers (R) are total Socialist Hypocrites

Lining their own pockets, and kicking our American elders down the stairs into the basement.

Ptoooey.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. And who could have guessed GMA would run the story this morning?

[freshwest]

5. Amazing, unless the back message is they shouldn't be paid at all, and give the entire process...

Of governance over to millionaire oligarches to keep the proles out of the way. Sorry, but I'm just and think there is no such thing as news anymore, just propaganda and lies everywhere...

[old mark]

3. K&R- Republicans LIE? Hard to believe, huh?...nt

[thelordofhell]

4. Some were before......all are now

If you are a lawmaker, you are on the government dole.

[freshwest]

6. But the lobbies that fund them call their interests private enterprise.

I'm beginning to glimpse that there is no difference, good or bad.

[Kingofalldems]

7. K and R for the idiot freepers and teabaggers to read

[DeSwiss]

8. Kpete you left off the most important part of this article!

The biggest recipient was Rep. Stephen Fincher, a Republican from Frog Jump, Tenn.

While the self-described Tea Party patriot lists his occupation as "farmer" and "gospel singer" in the Congressional Directory, he doesn't mention that his family has received more than $3 million in farm subsidies from 1995 to 2009, according to the Environmental Working Group.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tea-party-hypocrisy-lawmakers-tea-party-ties-government/story?id=13259014&page=1

- I sure hope he's reporting his gospel singing income to the IRS, because I'm sure it's substantial.....

K&R