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Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 11/30/2010 1:45:02 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
The House of Representatives approved a decades-old settlement worth $4.6 billion Tuesday that resolves two class-action suits filed against the federal government by black farmers and Native Americans.
The thousands who joined the suit argued that the government discriminated against them as they applied for loans for agricultural ventures.
The House approved the package 256-to-152.
Black farmers would receive $1.2 billion, after they alleged they were cheated out of loans from the Agriculture Department. The government will direct $3.4 billion to American Indians who say the Interior Department swindled them out of royalties from natural resources like gas and timber.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Farmers should have a pretty good notion of what this is - i.e. manure.
It’s only money..... not like it costs anything.
/sarc
We demand that our government behave niggardly with our taxes. Let DU figure that one out.
I have a family member who worked this case. Fraud doesn’t even begin to cover how corrupt this was. The Hispanic and Female discrimination law suits that were lost are also going to be re-opened. They will pay them also.
What little is left is being sucked into the New World order.
They just let us vote and stuff to amuse us and make us think we have a chance.
WooWhoo! see ya sukas! I have some shopping to do!...
What else can “we the taxpayers” fund for Barry????””
Keep in mind these are not loans, but handouts. More of the Kenyan’s get whitey while we can steal his money thru political corruption. Take whitey’s taxes and give it to his lazy Bros.
I’ll have to file this under “Yougottabeshittin’me”
Is there any part of our society that is not circling the sewer drain right now? No wonder we are broke.
“Black farmers alleged they were cheated out of loans . . . American Indians who say the Interior Department swindled them out of royalties”
My family has had money in the form of taxes confiscated from them for decades to support people who won’t work.
I wants my settlement, too.
When things go bad, you gotta get mean.
Absolutely...It was corrupt from the very beginning and multiplied as time went on.
Why is the government providing loans in the first place? Shouldn’t this be the role of a bank?
Eliminate the loan program - voila! No discrimination!
I think the key to getting stuff is to destroy your birth records entirely....
D-—! Buying votes with our money! Maybe it’s time to do something about this!
What a complete farce and rip-off of the taxpayers. I doubt this would pass after the Republicans take over in January.
What a disgrace. Shows what BS the Democrats are talking with their bipartisan debt commission
Is this an extension of the Pigford case?
http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2010/07/27/pigford-v-glickman-86000-claims-from-39697-total-farmers/
We need the names of the critters who voted for this, again.
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