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I realize this thread has probably run its course, but I found it via a Google search and have a City Data account so I feel the need to point this out.
Name dropping von Mises even if superficial is a hell of a stronger statement than throwing out cutsey ambiguously evasive social-conservative aphorisms (Palinisms). Taken at face value, if she is just now reading van Mises at this point in her life, she is probably a recent convert.
Because of this I don't think it's a good idea to put someone with still-evolving views in the White House. But to pigeonhole her as a social conservative at this point is obviously fallacious.
I realize this thread has probably run its course, but I found it via a Google search and have a City Data account so I feel the need to point this out.
Name dropping von Mises even if superficial is a hell of a stronger statement than throwing out cutsey ambiguously evasive social-conservative aphorisms (Palinisms). Taken at face value, if she is just now reading van Mises at this point in her life, she is probably a recent convert.
Because of this I don't think it's a good idea to put someone with still-evolving views in the White House. But to pigeonhole her as a social conservative at this point is obviously fallacious.
Bachmann is EXTREMELY socially conservative, and has been one of the furthest right members on social issues both in Congress and the Minnesota Legislature.
C'mon...this is the herd of elephants in the room when it comes to Bachmann...
Michele Bachmann has become well known for her anti-government tea-bagger antics, protesting health care reform and every other government “handout” as socialism. What her followers probably don’t know is that Rep. Bachmann is, to use that anti-government slur, something of a welfare queen. That’s right, the anti-government insurrectionist has taken more than a quarter-million dollars in government handouts thanks to corrupt farming subsidies she has been collecting for at least a decade.
But data compiled from federal records by Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit watchdog that tracks the recipients of agricultural subsidies in the United States, shows that Bachmann has an inner Marxist that is perfectly at ease with profiting from taxpayer largesse. According to the organization’s records, Bachmann’s family farm received $251,973 in federal subsidies between 1995 and 2006. The farm had been managed by Bachmann’s recently deceased father-in-law and took in roughly $20,000 in 2006 and $28,000 in 2005, with the bulk of the subsidies going to dairy and corn. Both dairy and corn are heavily subsidized—or “socialized”—businesses in America (in 2005 alone, Washington spent $4.8 billion propping up corn prices) and are subject to strict government price controls. These subsidies are at the heart of America’s bizarre planned agricultural economy and as far away from Michele Bachmann’s free-market dream world as Cuba’s free medical system. If American farms such as hers were forced to compete in the global free market, they would collapse Is Michele Bachmann a Welfare Queen? | Video Cafe
Reading something and having the comprehension to put it in practice are two different things.
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