In May of 2009, Michele Bachmann declared on Minnesota’s KTLK-AM that she was “concerned” that the White House was attempting to create re-education camps. This was her response to the expansion of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act. The expansion proposed by the act was to increase the positions by national community service programs from around 75,000, to approximately 250,000. As usual, Bachmann was on the very wrong side of the argument (and reality). The bill passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 275 to 149 and the Senate, by a vote of 79 to 19.
In regards to expanding the positions available, she felt that it was President Obama’s desire to create these positions as basically:
"Re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward."
And the ultimate goal of these positions was so that when completed the young people would then be put to work for President Obama’s political base:
"Then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forums."
I don’t have to go into how bat-shit crazy this woman is, and it is a good thing that she is being forced out. We all know that she would stay if the GOP and their ethics investigation did not force their hand on her fate. Her insane and truly hypocritical position on this issue is just another example of what the Teabag led GOP held worldview is, and how America should be.
In this particular case with Bachmann’s craziness, which is truly abhorrent and frightening, she is publicly advocating the creation of slave labor camps. No, this is not like a public comment made that insinuates some paranoid relationship between the expansions of a national community serve program, and the hidden and unspoken desires of a President whose very citizenship, religion, and love for his country she has questioned over and over again.
“I’m calling on all of us, Obama and Congress and everyone, to chip in and build special new facilities… `Americanization’ facilities, if you will. And we’d send these kids to these facilities, in Arizona and Texas and wherever else. And we’d get private sector business leaders to locate to those facilities and give these children low-risk jobs to do. And they’d learn about the American way of life, earn their keep, and everyone wins in the end.”
No, this is a direct and vocal call for the creation of slave labor camps. She even gives the possible locations for them, along with how it would be good for the economy. You know, good for the economy, just like it was good for the plantation masters economy back when America was the way they wish it was today. “I want my country back” takes on a new meaning. Maybe separate water fountains, too?