Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Reparations

Reparation payments to Black farmers who claimed discrimination for not getting USDA loans, came under a program called Pigford I and paid out a little over a billion dollars. This program was set up by President bush. In 2009 Obama set up Pigford II which paid out 1.25 Billion more to these black farmers.

Congressman King of Iowa has been doing some investigatiog, and found there were 73,000 claims, with many payments going to urban addresses. The National Black Farmers of America Asociation puts the number of black farmers at 18,000 total nationwide. In the 70's and 80's the number was 27,000. Can you say triple dipping.

Our friend Shirly Sherrod the fired USDA Mgr, is also a part of this story. She and her husband received $12,000,000 in discrimanation funds from Pigford II in 2009. This on top of a $300,000 work place discrimination lawsuit not related to this government cheese. Still to come is her next lawsuit for her national documented latest unfair firing, by Obama, even though he is getting her a new job with Uncle Sam.

Steve

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