Posted on 03/26/2011 4:18:25 AM PDT by Scanian
Want to get a check from the government for $50,000? If you’re black and willing to say you once “attempted to farm,” the money could be yours.
Why? In the 80’s and 90’s, some Black farmers were allegedly discriminated against by the Agriculture Department. Department loan officers supposedly did the opposite of what Shirley Sherrod was accused of: they granted government-subsidized farm loans to whites but not to blacks.
Government shouldn’t be giving out government subsidized loans to anyone. But that’s another story for another time.
When some black farmers sued, claiming discrimination, the USDA agreed to pay $50,000 to every black person who was discriminated against.
According to the census, there were 18,000 black farmers in the country when the lawsuit was filed. But 97,000 black “farmers” have applied for the money.
Black farmer Jimmy Dismuke says it’s fraud. He said lawyers went to black churches and told people who had never farmed to file for the money.
“People say well, how do I qualify?” Dismuke told us. “And then [the lawyers] started talking about potted plants. They said if you had a potted plant, you can be a farmer. And if you have a yard and you fertilize it, you're a farmer.”
Just about anyone can say that they “attempted to farm.” And the USDA – which did not keep all its loan records--has no way to refute that. So the taxpayers pay, and pay.
Jimmy’s former lawyer, Othello Cross, helped thousands of people file claims. He told us that, years afterwards, he concluded that some cases were fraudulent. People came up to him in the street and told him:
“Lawyer, you know -- John never farmed in his life. … when I went back and looked at it, it was true.”
(Excerpt) Read more at stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com ...
the original judgment of “Pigford v. Glickman” in 1999 only applied to a total of 16,000 black farmers. But in 2008, a junior Senator got a law passed to reopen the case and allowmore black farmers to sue for funds. The Senator was Barack Obama.
Because this law was passed in dead silence and because the woman responsible for spearheading it was an obscure USDA official, American taxpayers did not realize that they had just been forced in the midst of a worldwide depression to pay out more than $1.25 billion to settle a race claim.
A monumental theft enabled by the Community organizing Kenyan.
Reparations. I’m so sick of it. And nothing will be done under the current joke of a Justice department. I want these jokers locked up and the key thrown away.
And let me know when I can sue the Queen of England for discriminating against MY Pilgrim ancestors.
Rotten to the core.
I watched John Stossel’s segment where he covered this. It is yet another means of dead beats bilking taxpayers wout of millions ith little to no oversight and end in sight.
I watched John Stossel’s segment where he covered this.>>>>
Was a solid hour last night ...It will be run on repeats. It covered the Pigford reparations rip-off
Another example why the D’Souza thesis about Obama is the best one going. (anticolonialist revenge in the guise of redistributionism)
Everyone in that mindset out for a piece of pie...
Saddens me beyond words.
I believe there is sufficient evicdence to impeach this “president” that has been discovered over the last 72 hours alone.
Whitey gonna pay. . and pay . . and pay . . for slavery, and being white . . .
Gee, that could be every brother who ever had a pot plant in his window....
Bam’s way of redistrubution of funds to his bros.
Stossel is only about 13 months late on this one. We did this story last February, 2 days after the Pigford II settlement was announced and before it was finalized in Congress.
Several people here tried to get either Congressional or media attention to this story and no body was interested. Now that the heist is complete, and the loot distributed - everyones OUTRAGED.
just sayin
I was wondering about that while watching Stossel last night.
Maybe they’ll try a pilot program in California.
Farmer ping.
I'm not sure what he means by, "government subsidized" but this vet would not have been able to buy his first home without V.A. backing. It didn't cost the V.A. anything, except maybe administrative fees, since I paid the loan.
Government shouldn’t be giving out government subsidized loans to anyone.
People maybe shouldn't be making such sweeping statements.
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