Speaking of her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, Bachmann said she “lived very carefully.”
“We wouldn’t consider spending more money than what we took in. That’s the kind of thinking that has to return to Washington DC,” she said.
Michelle Bachmann moved from Waterloo, Iowa when she was 13, that had to be in 1969. I don't know what year between the year she was born 1956 and 1969 she is talking about specifically. But in 1959 the US poverty level was 22.4% nearly 50% higher than the current national poverty level. I guess she just decided to sing praises about a time period and place that would be almost impossible to check the statistics for. She may have also been discussing her families spending habits which wouldn't make sense since running a family of 3 is nothing like running a country of more than 300 million people. I could try to figure out what she meant, but trying to get in her head is probably a very bad idea.
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