Posted on 04/28/2013 7:18:43 PM PDT by opentalk
It's not often that I'll write approvingly of an article in The New York Times, but for Sharon LaFraniere's masterful deconstruction of the Pigford Scandal, I'll make an exception.
Pigford, you may recall, was first exposed by Andrew Breitbart and because of it he was sued, dismissed and lampooned by the Democrat-Media Complex. The term vindication was invented for situations like this.
Ever since the Clinton administration agreed in 1999 to make $50,000 payments to thousands of black farmers, the Hispanics and women had been clamoring in courtrooms and in Congress for the same deal. They argued, as the African-Americans had, that biased federal loan officers had systematically thwarted their attempts to borrow money to farm.
But a succession of courts — and finally the Supreme Court — had rebuffed their pleas. Instead of an army of potential claimants, the government faced just 91 plaintiffs. Those cases, the government lawyers figured, could be dispatched at limited cost.
They were wrong.
… In the past five years, it has grown to encompass a second group of African-Americans as well as Hispanic, female and Native American farmers. In all, more than 90,000 people have filed claims. The total cost could top $4.4 billion...
Like Operation Fast and Furious and Benghazi, the Pigford Scandal is a hundred times worse than Watergate. It represents institutionalized corruption and theft orchestrated by the President of the United States.
It is, in effect, a form of stealth reparations executed unlawfully on the part of this administration.
Heads should roll and impeachment should be on the table. Knowing the cowardly, feckless House Republican leadership, however, it's likely all of this will be ignored because John Boner and Eric Cantor are more interested in retaining their white-knuckled grip on power than doing the right thing.
(Excerpt) Read more at directorblue.blogspot.com ...
I’m sure the republicans will call this out for what it really is.
HaHaHa
Boner wants to play along to get along. He will only mildly protest just for show.
Yes, it is a shame that we do NOT have a Government that is responsible by either party isn’t it? Sucks... Just look also at the buying of millions (billions) of rounds of ammunition to keep it out of the public hands. These folks are beyond American - they are at best anti-American. The idea that they could be worse is more abhorrent but possible!
This is a shocking and criminal abuse of the taxpayers money. I can’t believe but kudos to the NYTimes for this unreal expose. All Freepers should read this. A 4 billion dollar heist. Read Tom Vilsaks own words. I hope Rush, Fox and Drudge pick up on this. Please read every word.
Tom Vilsak....we celebrate diversity instead of discriminating against it......so he and Obama fleece us for a cool 4 bill. One law firm earned 60 million in fees.
… . Agriculture Department reviewers found reams of suspicious claims, from nursery-school-age children and pockets of urban dwellers, sometimes in the same handwriting with nearly identical accounts of discrimination...
He is doing more of the same with marketing and providing food stamps to illegal immigrants
One family had 10 members get 50k each. I just read this and I’m no birther or conspiracy theorist or even a constitutional expert not this seems like orchestrated theft by Obama, Holder and Vilsak. Anyone with their fingers on this should be indicted.
Holder is absolutely as corrupt as they come... the problem is that Congress will NOT do anything about it. We are in an unfortunate scope of forgive the “black man” period (just try to get Republican Congressman to condemn him) and they will never do anything about his Unconstitutional actions.
We are doomed because of affirmative action and it will not get any better by complaining. The die is set! Maybe in the year 2025 we can even begin to understand what havic this administration has wrought...but it will be too late!
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Not while John "No Balls" Boehner is Speaker of the House.
They used a slush fund for the payouts. Boehner probably didn’t even know....before we start blaming our own let’s start with Obama,Holder and Vilsak. It was their con.
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The Communist handlers who installed Obama s president are determined to empty the U.S. coffers by every way they can think of, no matter how crooked or absurd. The Obama “create jobs” bill was a clear farse. Money down the hopper. Obamacare is a clear farse. Money down the hopper. Giving money to terrorist nations a farse. Money down the hopper. And the media don’t say a peep. That the New York Times has actually printed one of the many stories they could have is a good thing. Perhaps a few of the brain dead who use the Times as their source of truth will begin to see the horror of their voting for such a monumental falsifier and thief of the tax dollars of the America people.
I have read stories about this years ago and went nuts about it but as with other stories this went nowhere,I even posted here that Alan West voted to expand this Program to Hispanics and Women before he was defeated.
Now all of a Sudden the New York Times Prints stories about this? I also read a Story that someone at NPR in an Interview talked about Shenanigans in Hawaii with Obamas Birth Certificate? I smell a Rat,Better Known as Hillary Clinton,If there are More Hearings coming on Bengahzi with some Survivors coming to Testify,I think the Witch is trying to Blow some smoke to take the Heat off her Fat ass.
What better way to Get even. These Clintons never get Mad they eventually get even,especially when it Benefits them
Ignorant people fleeced by lawyers.
Let me set my comment straight for you:
There is no doubt that the con was Obama's. Holder undoubtedly has a role in protecting Obama. Vilsak - Can't say one way or another. Don't know, don't care.
All I said in my comment - which was specific to Boehner is that he doesn't have the balls to bring articles of impeachment to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to impeach Herr Obama.
Obama could be caught raping young boy by ten impeccable witnesses, one of which who filmed the rape in 1080i HD Quality video in which the image of Obama committing the act is unmistakeable, and Boehner still wouldn't have the balls to impeach him.
Am I clear as to just what a spineless, testicle-less POC Boehner is?
One more thing just for the record: We are another $6T in debt thanks to Obama. Anyone who doesn't know that $6T has been all about stealth reparations and payback to Obama's political friends has their head in the sand.
99 weeks of unemployment? Stealth reparations.
50 Million people on Food Stamps? Stealth reparations.
Obamacare? Stealth reparations.
Massive expansion of EBT? Stealth reparations.
Once again demanding that banks loan money to folks with "undocumented income" to buy homes? Stealth reparations.
Obamaphones? Stealth reparations. DUH!!!!
I can go on and on and on, I'm sure you get the point. You're a smart guy and I've no need to vent further prior to my first cup of coffee this morning...
Meanwhile, John Bonehead just hides in the corner, no where to be seen.
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