Biting the hand that fed them?
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..."Many of the fresh-faced tea party candidates jockeying for a spot in Congress on a platform of “fiscal responsibility” and “small government” are quite content to allow themselves—and their constituents—to keep feeding at the “big government” trough.
Take Stephen Fincher of Tennessee, the tea party candidate for the U.S. Senate, who has received a stamp of approval from the national tea party network. He paints himself as a simple cotton farmer who wants to “stop runaway spending in Washington that is bankrupting America’s children and grandchildren” and to return the country to its free-market principles.
But Fincher fails to mention that he has been on the receiving end of the exact policies he is supposedly campaigning against. According to federal records, the Fincher family has collected more than $6 million in federal farm subsidies since 1995, while Fincher and his wife alone took in $3.2 million. The reason? Because without the cash, his farm would fail, he told The Washington Post.
The subsidies are not just keeping Fincher’s farm afloat, they are also helping fund his political campaign. A tea party activist in Tennessee crunched the numbers and found out that 90 percent of contributions to Fincher’s campaign have come from wealthy farming families that have been the beneficiaries of roughly $80 million in farm subsidies..."
http://exiledonline.com/tea-party-r...t-whores-just-like-their-billionaire-masters/
Take Stephen Fincher of Tennessee, the tea party candidate for the U.S. Senate, who has received a stamp of approval from the national tea party network. He paints himself as a simple cotton farmer who wants to “stop runaway spending in Washington that is bankrupting America’s children and grandchildren” and to return the country to its free-market principles.
But Fincher fails to mention that he has been on the receiving end of the exact policies he is supposedly campaigning against. According to federal records, the Fincher family has collected more than $6 million in federal farm subsidies since 1995, while Fincher and his wife alone took in $3.2 million. The reason? Because without the cash, his farm would fail, he told The Washington Post.
The subsidies are not just keeping Fincher’s farm afloat, they are also helping fund his political campaign. A tea party activist in Tennessee crunched the numbers and found out that 90 percent of contributions to Fincher’s campaign have come from wealthy farming families that have been the beneficiaries of roughly $80 million in farm subsidies..."
http://exiledonline.com/tea-party-r...t-whores-just-like-their-billionaire-masters/
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Minister of Truth
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LOLZ, let's just feed the trolls...
zappasguitar
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That's what Yurt does...ignore the evidence to attack the messenger.
Minister of Truth
Practically Perfect
If the messenger is a troll, it should be attacked.
zappasguitar
Well-known member
Attack the messenger.
While conveniently ignoring the truth behind the OP.
Nice way to marginalize truths that make you uncomfortable.
apple0154
MEOW
Talking about link trolling aren't you link trolling in this thread?
Lowaicue
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Eleven troll links out of 17 messages (18 now). Something wrong with our little ambulance chaser, methinks.
SEEK HELP YURT.
Minister of Truth
Practically Perfect
Or we could all stop patting the troll on the butt, because he made us all feel frisky...