http://www.factcheck.org/2014/01/bachmann-botches-poverty-stats/
and now the republican 3rd entry for idiot de jour.
Rep. Michele Bachmann was wrong on two counts when she claimed today’s poverty rate is “only slightly below where it was in 1964″ and that the small improvement in the rate “came with a $20 trillion price tag.”
First, the official poverty rate in 1964 was 19 percent, and it was 15 percent in 2012.
Second, Bachmann ties the rate to a $20 trillion expense that includes noncash benefits for food, housing and low-income medical care programs as well as Earned Income Tax Credits – all things that are not included when calculating the official poverty rate.
Bachmann made her comments on the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’sState of the Union Address that famously included his declaration of a “war on poverty in America.”
she too belongs to the Sarah Palinites club she to reads nothing founding fathers, Paul Revere what an embarrasment.
how stupid are the Minnesotans that they keep electing her, and she keeps making best point as to why they shouldn't have, nobody listens on that side.
