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Bread Bags On The Soles Of Her Shoes

 
 
 
No, they go on the outside so your sneakers stay dry.
 
Delivering the official Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night, Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst related tales of a hardscrabble upbringing in which she “worked construction” with her father, took a job in the fast food industry, and placed plastic bread bags over her one pair of shoes so as to keep them dry when it rained. “Our parents may not have had much,” Ernst said of herself and her schoolmates’ families, “but they worked hard for what they did have.”

The takeaway, of course, was that we should all be so self-reliant, not depending on government handouts to get by. In her speech, Ernst denounced “wasteful spending” and vowed that Republicans would cut it. The new GOP Congress, Ernst said, would work toward an America in which “you don’t need to come from wealth or privilege to make a difference.”

“You just need the freedom to dream big, and a whole lot of hard work,” she continued.

Here’s what the GOP rising star omitted from her paean to gritty self-reliance: Hard as her family may have worked, and fierce as Ernst may be in her opposition to big government spending, her family benefited more than $460,000 in federal farm subsidies between 1995 and 2009, per the District Sentinel. Beneficiaries included Ernst’s father, Richard Culver, uncle Dallas Culver, and late grandfather Harold Culver. The Culvers’ subsidies hardly set them apart from their neighbors; as the District Sentinel notes, Iowa ranks second only to Texas in farm subsidies, with the largely rural and agricultural state receiving $24.9 billion in subsidies between 1995 and 2012.
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http://www.salon.com/2015/01/22/jon..._a_million_dollars_in_federal_farm_subsidies/
 
Rocky Mountain Mike does a lot of amazing sound clips. He regularly contributes to the Stephanir Miller show.

As kids we used bread bags to keep our socks dry when going out to play in the snow. Been a long time since thought about those childhood memories.
 
thebeave said:
When I was a kid, we didn't even have air. We had to breathe out of bags.
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You were lucky. When I was a kid, I had to share a bag of air with twelve brothers and sisters, and three of them had halitosis.
 
It's a real shame her mother wasn't more concerned with keeping water off her hair and face. She put the breadbags around the wrong part.;)
 
thebeave said:
ZiprHead said:
You were lucky. When I was a kid, I had to share a bag of air with twelve brothers and sisters, and three of them had halitosis.
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Well, I can't top that. You win.
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Make the bags smaller and give each prospective politician kid his own bag tied off firmly at the neck. NOBODY NEEDS TO SUFFER FROM THE HALITOSIS OF OTHERS. You don't want too much air trapped in that bag!;)
 
The bread bags go over your socks, inside your shoes. The soles of cheap running shoes crack before the shoe wears out and stepping in a puddle or just walking on wet pavement, gets your socks wet.
 
But what about that airbag that gave the republican response to the SOTU address?
 
"her family benefited more than $460,000 in federal farm subsidies"

It's one thing to take advantage of a legal benefit and quite another to vote in favor of a benefit. Is this supposed to be an example of hypocrisy?
 
fast said:
"her family benefited more than $460,000 in federal farm subsidies"

It's one thing to take advantage of a legal benefit and quite another to vote in favor of a benefit. Is this supposed to be an example of hypocrisy?
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Actually it is an example of the left's insatiable hunger for quoting character assassins and using the msm poison-gas brigades. This kind of assault is used for any new GOP face, but is especially reserved for new female GOP politicians, anyone who threatens the "war on women" slogan.

I mean, we wouldn't want to talk about the national Democratic senators of stature, like Ms. Feinstein or Harry Reids and their route to actual and real wealth, would we?
 
maxparrish said:
fast said:
"her family benefited more than $460,000 in federal farm subsidies"

It's one thing to take advantage of a legal benefit and quite another to vote in favor of a benefit. Is this supposed to be an example of hypocrisy?
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Actually it is an example of the left's insatiable hunger for quoting character assassins and using the msm poison-gas brigades. This kind of assault is used for any new GOP face, but is especially reserved for new female GOP politicians, anyone who threatens the "war on women" slogan.

I mean, we wouldn't want to talk about the national Democratic senators of stature, like Ms. Feinstein or Harry Reids and their route to actual and real wealth, would we?
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Why not?
 
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