[PROCON]

This should be interesting...

[iowamark]

Audio at:

http://www.1380kcim.com/Congressman-Steve-King-talks-about-issues-that-wil/8874737

[backwoods-engineer]

I’ll believe it when I see it.

[Winstons Julia]

WHAT?? I am NOT responsible for what happened before my MOM was born.

I say...we make illegals who want to be legal pay the reparations....

[Razz Barry]

The Pigford class-action lawsuit (named for Timothy Pigford, a black farmer from North Carolina who was an original plaintiff) alleged that local offices of the U.S. Department of Agriculture practiced widespread discrimination against black farmers when awarding loans and other aid.

After this was passed, I called Kings office to let him know how much I appreciated him calling it reparations. IMHO, this amounts to people suing over not getting money that no one should have been getting, from an agency that shouldn't even exist.

[marron]

the GOP-controlled House next year will hold hearings to investigate the settlement, which he says amounts to “reparations.”

No, the word is fraud. If people are receiving payments for farming they did not do, if they are compensated for loans they did not seek, if they are compensated for loans they were never qualified for in the first place, then its fraud and someone needs to be doing time in the pen.

Calling it "reparations" muddies the water and gives O some cover for what is out and out fraud. Hard time in the slammer fraud.

[WilliamHouston]

Steve King is the best congressman in the House.