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Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., told FoxNews.com on Tuesday that she's been told people who have no connection to farming are set to receive payments under the so-called Pigford settlement
Bachmann, along with Reps. Steve King, R-Iowa, and Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., point to a red flag in the numbers -- while Census data pegs the number of U.S. farms operated by black farmers at about 33,000, close to 94,000 claims have been made so far in the discrimination case.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Gee .. whoda' thunk it?
Remember the big payoff .. yes .. payOFF .. to all the black farmers who claimed discrimination? Years ago the courts dismissed their suit as having no merit. Instead of handing out loans to people who wouldn't be able to pay them back ... like what happened in the housing crisis, the loans went to farmers based on what they could and couldn't pay back. But then Obama got in and it all got reintroduced again and it was determined that they'd get their payout (really it's a payOFF and shouldn't have happened).
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Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., told FoxNews.com on Tuesday that she's been told people who have no connection to farming are set to receive payments under the so-called Pigford settlement
Bachmann, along with Reps. Steve King, R-Iowa, and Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., point to a red flag in the numbers -- while Census data pegs the number of U.S. farms operated by black farmers at about 33,000, close to 94,000 claims have been made so far in the discrimination case.
Don't forget .. Obama helped cause the housing crisis. When he was a lawyer for the corrupt ACORN group, he sued citibank and forced it to make housing loans to people who the bank knew would never be able to pay it back. This black farmer payoff is cut from the same cloth. Instead of being rewarded for doing the right thing with loans, those giving the loans are being demonized.
So what this payoff is saying is that .. even though the loaners did the responsible thing with farms and they gave out loans in the amounts that were proper and that they knew could be paid back ... the government is saying that they discriminated and so our tax money is now going to be wasted once again. Money will be going to people who didn't get loans for legitimate reasons .. and money will be going to frauds who claim they were discriminated against but they clearly weren't. This case was dismissed years ago. The fact that it's going through now is absurd and yet another waste of our tax money.
One fault with this lies in the fact that I know plenty of 'caucasian' farmers that are not rich, barely making ends meet, and the only people working the farms are the farmer, his wife and children.
It is only a problem because it went to minority owned farms and not rich, caucasian owned farms who emply slave labour and vote GOP.
Originally posted by TheImmaculateD1
Obama DID NOT CAUSE THE HOUSING MESS
ACORN WAS TORN A NEW ONE WHEN THEY WERE MAKING IT EAISER FOR MINORITIES TO REGISTER TO VOTE
THEY WERE DEMONIZED FOR NOTHING MORE THEN GETTING MINORITIES REGISTERED.
as you are what continually remains to be the problem.
It is only a problem because it went to minority owned farms and not rich, caucasian owned farms who emply slave labour and vote GOP.