re: #8 Naso Tang

Now I don’t have to be off topic. Here is the question I asked in the last thread.

I’d like to ask if anyone knows about Bachmann and foster children.

Googling doesn’t answer the question of “23” foster children and there is a suggestion that she has had 23 different children at different times; but that is not what she said on TV.

Needless to say, if she has 23 + 5 now, she can’t be much of a mother for them while running for president. It would seem more like running an orphanage remotely.

Then there is the question of whether she is collecting between $400 and $1000 per month from the state for each child, depending on needs. For one or two that would be a legitimate expense, but with 23 it sounds more like a business.

From the article

Bachmann often says she has “raised” 23 foster children. That may be a bit of a stretch. According to the Minnesota Department of Human Services, Bachmann’s license, which she had for 7 1/2 years, allowed her to care for up to three children at a time. According to Kris Harvieux, a former senior social worker in the foster-care system in Bachmann’s county, some placements were almost certainly short term. “Some of them you have for a week. Some of them you have for three years, some you have for six months,” says Harvieux, who also served as a foster parent herself. “She makes it sound like she got them at birth and raised them to adulthood, but that’s not true.”