Senator Joni Ernst is busted, the anti-welfare Republican wants Americans to be more self reliant, but she and her family have received $460,000 in taxpayer handouts!
In Joni Ernst’s State of the Union ‘rebuttal’ she drew a picture of her hard-working Iowa background. We all know how the little hog castrator rode to school wearing bread bags over her shoes on rainy days. We’ve heard how her family lived within their means, just as the government should. Ernst emphasized fiscal responsibility, hard work and living within your means. Gosh, she was a plucky little farm girl!
Hold the tears. The same Joni Ernst who voted against raising the minimum wage, and welfare is doing pretty well for herself.
Between 1995 and 2009 those little ol’ hog farmers, the Ernst family, bellied up to the trough and hogged down over $460,000 dollars in farm subsidies!
You’d never know that the Ernst family received any help from the government. CNN seemingly bought into Jodi Ernst’s story about her “hardscrabble upbringing.” NBC did not dig into her past, and the Wall Street Journal ironically said that her outspoken opposition to “federal government subsidies was a big factor in earning her election to the Senate.”
Neither the Journal nor any of the other major media outlets made note of the fact that the family of Joni Ernst herself would have benefited from exactly such “federal government subsidies.”