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notadmblnd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 06:40 PM Original message |
Michelle Bachmann's Baby Farm. |
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AzDar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 06:41 PM Response to Original message |
1. Between that and her farm subsidies, she must be making a tidy sum. |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 07:01 PM Response to Original message |
2. Are these children accounted for? I mean, she's pretty strange, she might even be like a, you know, |
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Barack_America (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 07:08 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. And, if so, who gets the $$. |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:13 PM Response to Reply #3 |
16. Average time in foster care for Minnesota looks like it's under a year |
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badgerpup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 07:20 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. I wondered that too after I read the OP... |
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FSogol (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 07:08 PM Response to Original message |
4. Unrec. There are plenty of good reasons to pick on Bachmann, but the fact that she adopted |
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 07:13 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. The people who "adopted" my mom had her quit school after 7th grade to be their servant and |
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eilen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 06:56 AM Response to Reply #5 |
27. My great grandfather was "adopted" by a farmer |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 01:04 PM Response to Reply #5 |
28. She supports a party that is trying to undo child labor laws throughout the country... |
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 05:55 PM Response to Reply #28 |
37. Yup. Too many stories like my mom's and the one above your post. I've read it still goes on. |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 05:27 PM Response to Reply #4 |
34. You don't know what Foster |
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Snoutport (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 07:23 PM Response to Reply #4 |
43. +1 |
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muntrv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 07:15 PM Response to Original message |
6. That socialist!!! |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 07:15 PM Response to Original message |
7. How much did she lease them out for, to her 'farm' for labor? |
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Angry Dragon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
8. It has been years since she has had foster kids |
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LynnTTT (47 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 04:18 PM Response to Reply #8 |
47. Well yes, but |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 07:29 PM Response to Original message |
10. well then you need to subtract expenses from that as well |
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Snoutport (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 07:01 PM Response to Reply #10 |
42. it might have been less money back then too... kids are expensive though |
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former9thward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 07:49 PM Response to Original message |
11. What a hateful and ugly post. |
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Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 07:55 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. +1 |
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Snoutport (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 06:23 PM Response to Reply #13 |
39. +1 more |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 01:23 PM Response to Reply #11 |
30. This is not my OP... nonetheless... |
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former9thward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 03:35 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. No one is hiding those kids. |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 03:52 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Really? I have never seen them identified and there are no pictures |
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former9thward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 05:41 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. Reporters have not bothered looking for them. |
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Snoutport (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 06:51 PM Response to Reply #32 |
40. probably closed files t protect juveniles. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
12. My friend's mother-in-law used to foster kids too |
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yawnmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:01 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. that is one selfish friend of your MIL. Good thing there are always "new ones". |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:09 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Luckily for the kids, she finally got too old and the county cut her off. |
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yawnmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:19 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. What was the alternative for the children? eom |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:24 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. other foster homes.. It's a "cottage industry" out here in SoCal |
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yawnmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:32 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. They languish as opposed to being out in the street? eom |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:35 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. some do, some don't.. |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 05:31 PM Response to Reply #12 |
35. I had a very good friend who was an |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:14 PM Response to Original message |
17. Batshit crazy Bachmann sure doesn't seem like the loving maternal |
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Warrior Dash (175 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:15 PM Response to Original message |
18. I imagine that if the state had custody, the costs would be significantly higher |
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LLStarks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:21 PM Response to Original message |
20. Every child deserves a home. nt |
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rgbecker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:30 PM Response to Original message |
22. I happened to hear her on the Hannity radio show this evening.... |
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riderinthestorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:42 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. I just tried Google Image and only came up with pics of 5 Bachman children |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 03:16 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. she apparently can't help it. |
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Bozvotros (394 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
24. Some farmers do use the foster care system |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 01:10 PM Response to Reply #24 |
29. Farm comunities used to do this all the time.. "Orphan Trains" were all about this |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
38. But think of all the love this stay-at-home mom gave her... oh, never mind. |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 07:31 PM Response to Reply #38 |
44. They weren't babies or toddlers |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 07:51 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. I'm suggesting that someone with a full-time-plus career.... |
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REP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 07:00 PM Response to Original message |
41. If she collected dogs or cats like she collects children, would some say she has a problem? |
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chrisa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 08:18 PM Response to Original message |
46. Pretty weak attack, don't you think? |
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