Bachmann’s clinic takes in thousands from “socialized medicine”

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Next you’ll claim Bachmann drives on public roads.

Good job, Birkey. Next subject: How much did the Bachmanns rake in from our state’s socialized welfare system for their 23 foster kids that Michele never fails to remind us of?

Typical Bachmann/Republican hypocrisy and lies.

Mental health clinics (businesses!) need customers. Customers often pay with insurance, some of which is medical “assistance” from government agencies. To a business person, the dollars are green without regard to their underlying source. Business adjusts to the climate created for it (including nightmarish governmental regulatory climates, etc.), so if patients are using government dollars to pay their bills, business does not care (except for the additional burden of the applications and forms).

That should not be too hard to grasp. MB’s husband is in business, but I suspect we lose a lot of people when talking about business…

It has to be hard for Bachmann haters to watch her continue to climb the ladder of success.

I wish I could offer something to ease your suffering, but unfortunately for you, she is all but certain to be in the majority party of the US House of Rep’s next year, and, I’m afraid she’ll be seriously kicking moonbat asses.

So sorry.

So John, you’re saying socialism is evil, until there’s a chance to make money on it?

I suppose conservatives that pay their taxes are hypocrites too, right? You Bachmann haters are really starting to reach now.

Not a fan of Bachmann, but this is small potatoes. Clients come to the clinic for help and bring whatever payment/insurance is available to them.

The payments collected this way are hardly going to benefit Bachmann.

I’m pretty worried that taxpayers are paying for a clinic that supposes to turn gay men straight. That’s what Mr. Bachmann does, he specializes in turning gay men straight, just like he was. Since homosexuality is not a mental disorder, we should be paying for it to be treated as such.

she is such an embarrassment to Minnesota, the stupidity and hypocrisy that come out of this Woman’s mouth is astounding.

I like how they seem to think “liberty” is this quantifiable commodity that is part of some zero-sum game.

Them deadbeats want to steal all our liberty!! Soon we’ll have none left and they’ll have it all!

I think they’re just scared shitless of the tables being turned on the wealthy and powerful. They know their own guilt. They also cannot think outside their myopic little world of greed and abuse. They can only image what they themselves do and what they themselves deserve according to the psychotic rules of their own twisted universe.

So between her family farm and her family business, the anti-socialist queen has taken just shy of $300,000 from taxpayers – and that’s not including her government salary and benefits. I’m supposed to believe this is “small potatoes”? What I get back from paying taxes is use of roads, assurance of police protection, help if I become unemployed, and the like. But I don’t get any cash payouts like this.

Gadzooks opines–It has to be hard for Bachmann haters to watch her continue to climb the ladder of success.

You know what makes it hard, Gadzooks? Watching Michele Bachmann and her hubby get fat off the backs of the taxpyers she purports to represent, while simultaneously piously attacking those same tax dollars that have paid every single paycheck of Bachmann’s professional career. Michele has been sucking off the public teat so long she wouldn’t know a private sector paycheck if it hit her in the face. Yet she continues to get mileage out of declaring all government evil. Farm subsidies, health care subsidies, IRS paychecks, state senate paychecks, congressional paychecks, foster child subsidies. Michele Bachmann has never met a government check with her name on it that she didn’t like–and cash.

People like Gadzooks find the concept of hypocrisy hard to comprehend because most of them are guilty of it themselves.

Conservatives pay all your dumbass taxes they sure as hell better suck up all the goodies government’s handing out. You lefties would love if they martyred themselves, but it ain’t gonna happen.

Weren’t you arguing against claiming unemployment (which, according to you is paid through your tax money), though, last week because it’s sucking at the government teat? Which is it? Sucking at the government teat or getting something out of your investment? Go troll somewhere else.

I was not arguing against taking unemployment payments, I was arguing against giving them. I probably should have held my nose and taken their money; the sooner we can legally bankrupt the state, the sooner lefties will have to find real jobs.

You’re logic is truly dizzying…/sarcasm.

I wasn’t aware that being reimbursed for services provided was considered a “handout.”

Is there no Bachmann lie you won’t eat? She spouts off about being independent of government on one side of her mouth while saying “gimme that government cash” out the other side. George Hayduke has it right… this woman has never been anything but a government welfare queen with her tax payer supported foster kids, farm subsidy payments, government paychecks and government healthcare for herself and voting against spending a tax payer dime on anyone else.

I think she is a great help… to the Democratic Party as an example of Republican crony welfare.

“Michele Bachmann has never met a government check with her name on it that she didn’t like–and cash.”

Mr. Sepp of the National Taxpayers Union offers an incredibly disengenuous argument. Medical Assistance is provided primarily to the working poor. Some may have health insurance through their job, but coverage is very limited and probably doesn’t cover mental health services. Medical Assistance does. Go to the DHS website and check it out yourselves. Medical Assitance is a very narrow plan and covers a specific population.

Now, if we take his and other anti-tax folks suggestion and do away with all government assitance in the health care system, where would that leave the Bachmann business? There would be fewer disposable dollars to spend on mental health services. People would do without.

And by the way, no one forces Bachmann and Associates to file claims to be reimbursed by Medical Assistance. They could offer these services for free.

And to add insult to injury, Republican legislators and their leader, King Pawlenty abandoned expanded federal Medicare for Minnesota. Minnesota is being rewarded (along with about another dozen states) for already providing medical assistance to the poor via Medical Assistance and GAMC. All we had to do was fund the 1 dollar and the Federal Government puts up 7. One:Seven. Pretty good return.

So listen carefuly when you hear these stingy, unfeeling and short-sighted conservatives bitch and moan about high taxes and propose budget cuts designed to hurt the most vulnerable in our state. Listen carefully. They will never, never propose to take the medicine themselves.

Isn’t that about your annual salary, there, Birkey?

ha!

If Michele’s husband didn’t accept medical assistance payments her detractors would be screaming bloody murder that he is unwilling to help poor people. You lefties aren’t fooling anyone.

Jimmy -

Would you, Rudy or Raymond need medical assistance or do you have insurance that covers all three (that we know of) of you?

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That’s personal!

This is so typical of the anti-government anti- American right wing..
* Halliburton – Makes BILLIONS off of ripping off the tax payer.. Four billion dollars of the public treasury disappears in the first week of the premeditated debacle of the Iraq War [Operation Iraqi Liberation= (O.I.L.)]
* Billions of Socialized “public” dollars goes into inventing new medicines.. We fund tax money to companies like Pfizer to create new medicines.. Yet we pay more then 3 times what these evil socialized countries do for medication.
* Big Banks, Insurance Companies and the WORTHLESS CEO’s that made our county collapse into oblivion!! Are making BILLIONS! We could insure MILLIONS of Americans with this abuse of our treasury , yet they are making sure that there Saudi Arabian Yachts are carpeted and their Italian marbled floors are polished …
Republicans hate Socialism when it comes to benefiting Americans, but as long as it benefits Corporations!! Socialism is the KING!! When will this dying movement called “The Tea Bagger Movement” disappear ??
Today’s Republican party is neither “Compassionate” Nor is it it “Conservative” …

Peace

Paul was elected overwhelmingly in Kentucky yesterday. Top RINO Specter was defeated in PA. The Tea Party is starting. Looks like we Tea Baggers are going to give the left something to suck on.

The Tea Bagger Party is absolute proof that the Republican party is completely fractured. If The “Mavericky” REPUBLICAN Sarah Palin is the poster girl for this movement then you guys are in trouble.. I find it interesting that the extremist Reich wing like Palin, Bachmann and Glenn Beck align themselves as Baggers.. The only reason there doing it is because the brand name of “Republican” is Toxic.. Yesterdays primaries are a God send to this country.. The Mitch McConnell and the Newt “The Hair Helmet” Gingrich anointed candidates are getting flushed down the toilet.. Don’t get me wrong, I think the Dems are a bunch of rubber spine whimps and there is a movement in our own party to remove them. Bye Bye to Landrew, Lincoln, Bayh and Specter.. The nation wants their Dems to act like Dems and not Republi-Baggers..

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[...] this under all-together unsurprising hypocrisy: yet again, Tea Party darling Michele Bachmann has been found to be the beneficiary of “Socialist” largess.  Despite the Congresswoman’s rantings against [...]

Really, Jimmy? You approve of the election of a racist, homophobic, hateful “man” like Rand Paul? People voted for him because they thought they were going to get Ron, Jr. and they got David Duke, Jr.

Good luck with that, Kentucky! :/

Reply to- LOL!

Your Republi-Bagger party is the party of frickkin Hypocrites! Your “pro-life” yet you love dropping bombs on Muslim babies. Your the party of “Family Values” yet your religious leaders love taste testing male prostitutes behind their wives backs…. You preach fiscal conservancy EVERY frickkin time a God Damned Republican gets into power they rob the public treasury and plunge our country into the sewage pit leaving Dems to clean up the mess.. You want Government out our lives. That is unless your a queer then government needs to intervene right away to protect the sanctity of Ted Haggards marriage..

The fact that 1/6th of our economy is gobbled up by medical industrial complex would indicate a problem.. I’m sure we could fix this with a simple public option and an early medicare buy-in. But no people like you would much rather have the type of insurance that dumps you when you get sick so your Billion-aire heroes can peck the flesh off your bones..

Flawless leftist technique, Marcus. Blabber incoherently about everything other than the topic at hand. Works every time.

Jimmy
Comment posted May 19, 2010 @ 9:38 pm

“Flawless leftist technique, Marcus. Blabber incoherently about everything other than the topic at hand. Works every time.”

Really Jimmy?? I was called a hypocrite and wanted to point out the Republi-Bagger Hypocrisy. I could write a book on it but I decided to keep my blog comment short.. I wasn’t too far off the topic either.. BTW I’m a Democratic Socialist not a leftist.

>>> I was called a hypocrite

Another flawless leftist technique: Make shit up. No one called you a hypocrite.

>>>> BTW I’m a Democratic Socialist not a leftist.

Americans hate slavery like green roting flesh. Take your slaving socialist misery back to whence it came.

“Another flawless leftist technique: Make shit up.”

…spoken with the authority of extensive experience.

Yes, I’ve definitely read countless leftist lies here and elsewhere. Thanks for reminding me.

Good Morning Jimmy n’ Dave. It’s good to see a couple of burly straight guys stroke each other. You might wanna come out and re-think the whole gay marriage thing.

Jimmy~ “Americans hate slavery like green rotting flesh. Take your slaving socialist misery back to whence it came”.
Slavery huh?? The only countries that have really practiced slavery are Communist Republics like China and Capitalistic Republics like us.. Democratically driven Socialist countries far more representative of people then we are.. But I digress because I am “way off topic”.. Be a patriot and pay your taxes. Michele Bachmann needs her tax funded socialist health care..

>>> Democratically driven Socialist countries far more representative of people then we are..

Yeah, it shows their populations are crooks and prefer to live off the stolen efforts of others.

>>>>Yeah, it shows their populations are crooks and prefer to live off the stolen efforts of others.

Jimmy!! Our population is being gouged by crooks that DON’T represent us.. Multi-National Corporatist are far WORSE then Socialist. Please don’t confuse Corporatism and Capitalism . Monopolies “corporatist” DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU! A representative government that has an activist population (Republican or Democrat) is far more representative of the people..

John: “…MB’s husband is in business, but I suspect we lose a lot of people when talking about business…”

I always find it hilarious when Conservatived talk up thier business acumen. For pete’s sake thier mantra is Tax Cuts Create Jobs. Nothing highlights thier total lack of basic business sense better than that statement. No sane business person hires someone because thier taxes went down. They pocket that windfall and move on. What does create jobs is demand for products, but here again Conservative show thier total lack of business sense and spout supply side slogans. Maybe that’s why they need those tax breaks, they don’t know how to make a profit without government handouts.

Henk!! It’s sweet to hear the voice of reason on this site.. I thought I was the only one,. I have been battling the GOP>>LLC. and the Corporately funded Baggers for days without a response from some good reasonable people.

These neo freaks keep whining about “tax cuts” and if they don’t get a tax cut their gonna move to North Dakota or South Dakota.. Yeah right their not!! Minnesota has 22 fortune 500 companies that set up camp here.. North and South Dakota COMBINED HAVE ZERO FORTUNE 500 Companies. Let the freaks piss and moan and I will guarantee that it is much more lucrative doing business in a state that actually educates the population.. These Baggers are a flash in the pan and a limp wrist-ed movement

>>>> a limp wrist-ed movement

That’s homophobia and it won’t be tolerated here.

Capitalists invest, democrites piss wealth away. Today Polaris announced moving jobs to Mexico. Pretty sad when Mexico provides a better business environment than Minnesota.

Jimmy! I have no hateful bones in my body.. If queers wanna get married let them.. It’s none of my business. Who Cares! The only people that care about Gay Marriage are Christians and Baggers.. As far as me being a “homophobe” I will guarantee I personally know more queers then you do.. And guess what?? I don’t care what they do with their lives.. It’s almost like the Abortion issue.. “Who Cares!!” I don’t have a vagina. It’s not up to me to decide..

>>>> I don’t have a vagina.

You can always get one installed. And I’ll probably have to pay for it.

>>>> As far as me being a “homophobe”

Is it OK to use the word “queer” again?

>>>> have no hateful bones in my body..

I suspect your hate is in the soft stuff between your ears.

Marcus, arguing with the wingnuts is like wrestling with a pig. You both get full of shit, but the pig likes it. I know they like to wallow in it, so I really prefer not to get involved. I do like to point out their idiocy on occasion.

Like the dipshit here saying that Polaris is moving to Mexico because our taxes are too high. Maybe he gets paid what a Mexican worker does so he doesn’t know that their wages are much lower there and that’s what’s driving Polaris’ decision, I don’t know, but this tax crappola has to stop. Polaris will get what they pay for. If the jackasses here have any patriotism in them they will never buy another product Polaris produces, but that won’t happen. Their patriotism stops a sticking a flag decal on the bumper of their car.

It really doesn’t pay to argue with these folks. They are just too damn stupid to bother with.

Lefties bitch when a corporation predictably moves jobs away from government inflated wages and punitive regulation. Poetic justice I say. Kick the dog enough and he’ll run away.

Calling any “Christian mental health clinic” a “qualified private group” is a joke.

“When it helps her pocketbook she is for it. When it enables working families to attain affordable health coverage, she’s against it.”

This is treating her constituents like dirt, yet she says Gawd told her to run for congress. I wonder who she thinks her constituents are.

Henk you rock.. You pig analogy reminds me of Thanksgivings I’ve spent in Iowa.. I just wanna pull my fricken hair outta my head.. Your right about Polaris too.. Polaris means “North Star” And their moving to Mexico?? Please Polaris..

What the hell Jimmy it’s like you cheer on jobs being lost.. It’s typical of baggers to cheer on the NAFTA policies.. If we were to say >>86 NAFTA and enforce trade labor agreements we could create jobs here again..

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>>>> What the hell Jimmy it’s like you cheer on jobs being lost.

Damn right. You lefties piss on the backs of the job makers and they eventually say F you we’re moving to Mexico. You get what you deserve, but unfortunately I get it too. Thanks!

Free trade, it’s good for America! Unless you work for a living…

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If you work in Washington you can pass really bad policies and the Right Wing Bagger Trolls will cheer it on as long as you put the word “Free” or “Patriot” in front of it..

And democrites will buy any law with the word “Choice” or “Affordable”, and it will be neither.

I see what you did there, Jimmy. You turned “Democrats” into “democrites” (haw!) and then further changed the subject away from Bachmann’s hypocrisy in decrying gubment “handouts” while accepting almost $300,000 (farm subsidies + Medical Assistance payouts) in them. If you don’t have something intelligent to say, call names then change the subject. Well played, sir!

My interest in the government payments to the Bachmann family is this: I’d be disappointed if she didn’t accept whatever payments she is entitled to under law.

This issue, like her paying taxes late, is the sort of thing that gives hardcore lefties little pinky hardons but the rest of society just rolls their eyes and moves on.

I don’t follow. Why would it make their fifth fingers hard?

Don’t ask me, I don’t know either. Perhaps it is because lefties can’t justify their positions rationally, so they react with desperation to anything a small group of fools might see as casting a bad light on their opponents.

But what is a pinky hardon? Tumescent fingers, I’d gather. But are you saying that such topics affect liberals by manifesting sexual arousal in the smallest digits of the hand? I’m unaware of this phenomenon. But since you brought it up with an air of expertise, perhaps you could say more.

It was a metaphor for someone’s aggressive excitement that to any rational person would be not worthy of serious consideration. Might even hear someone say, Ahhhh, isn’t dat cute.

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