Obama Buys Off Indian Vote With $680 Million in Taxpayer-Funded Reparations
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 7:37 PM
Just in time for the election, Sweetness and Light reported yesterday that the Obama Administration agreed to pay up to $680 million to American Indian farmers to settle a 11 year-old discrimination suit.
Individuals who can prove discrimination could receive up to $250,000. Most Indian farmers will probably opt for a uniform $50,000 payment, which involves less red tape.
From left, Marilyn Keepseagle, Claryca Mandan, and Porter Holder, plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit by American Indian farmers, celebrate outside the federal courthouse in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010.
The Wall Street Journal reported:
The Obama administration agreed Tuesday to pay up to $680 million to American Indian farmers to settle an 11-year-old class-action lawsuit alleging discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who took office promising to address longstanding complaints by minority farmers against the department, said eligible farmers and ranchers can receive up to $250,000 each for showing that USDA discrimination caused them economic losses. However, most farmers will probably opt for a uniform $50,000 payment, which involves less red tape.
In the class-action suit, American Indian farmers allege that USDA bureaucrats denied them the low-interest rate loans given to white farmers between 1981 and 2007.
The American Indian class-action lawsuit has long been overshadowed by similar discrimination litigation brought by black farmers against the USDA. The Obama administration reached a $1.25 billion settlement with black farmers in February, but Congress has yet to appropriate that money.
Unlike the suit by black farmers, the money to settle the litigation by American Indian farmers is coming from an existing federal judgment fund—managed by the Justice Department and Treasury Department—which is used to pay for litigation involving the government.
The amount of money that the federal government will eventually pay to American Indian farmers is far from clear in large part because it is hard to estimate how many farmers will file claims.
According to the most recent USDA census of agriculture, which was conducted in 2007, nearly 35,000 American Indians made the day-to-day decisions for a farm or ranch. Before the 2007 census, however, the population of American Indian farmers is murkier because the government often counted an entire reservation as one farm operation.
Of course, this latest swindle surprises no one.
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MrGoodwench commented:
So now USDA is being used to funnel taxpayer money to blacks and Indians to buy their votes for Hussain ….
who was it who used to scream
” no more broken promises, no more broken treaties, give them the wealth..” ?
BTW is there an Indian version of Shirly Sherrod and her white-hating husband getting rich ?
SandyfromChesterfield commented:
There are also two more groups that are going to sue for reparations. They are women farmers and Hispanic farmers. Let’s redistribute that wealth.
FU#KOBAMA commented:
A short lived victory, Imam Obama will quickly tax the profits away, so in the end they still end up with only beads and blankets.
LIly commented:
Of course, its not HIS money. Its our kids money.
If the government wasn’t in the business of doleing out money to farmers, we couldn’t be sued by farmers who felt they were cheated out of their fair share of the booty.
chewydog commented:
We already had this with the black farmer. Once the decision is made, 1,000 farmers turn into 3,000 farmers.
Where I live used to be a farm. Don’t I qualify?
Or maybe I should open a casino…
Kenny Solomon commented:
My name is Chief Running Eeeeevil Jooooooooooo.
Gimme da munnie, or I’ll do a 40 day and night rain dance on yo’ head.
gus commented:
I’m sure this will be clearly explained to the American public by the MFM.
THESE MOTHERFU@#ERS NEED TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR RAPING OUR CHILDREN.
Valerie commented:
Why was USDA involved in banking?
PJ commented:
“Less red tape” meaning “less proof required”?
This sounds like the same argument that led to Fannie and Freddie’s collapse, that loans supposedly were denied on race rather than ability to pay back. That worked out well!
gastorgrab commented:
Pigford Farms, the sequel?
Will the settlement be tax-free, because they are indians?
A few of my ancestors came from this country. Am i being discriminated against because i am a registered Republican?
The theft of the taxpayers continues…….
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gus commented:
Valerie, Obama bypasses normal governmental paths. That is why he has czars.
gus commented:
It used to be that the GOVERNMENT fought law suits. Obama is representing us, he’s representing his own twisted ideology that THE MAN has cheated anyone and everyone who isn’t white.
MrGoodwench commented:
This sounds like the same argument that led to Fannie and Freddie’s collapse,
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Isn’t that something out of uhm aah..umm….
Cloward-Piven playbook ?
Now WHO coulda thunk ??
Fionnagh commented:
“…but Congress has yet to appropriate that money.”
The operative word here is “appropriate.” If anyone still has funds in a pension, IRA, or 401(k), you might consider taking a penalty and getting the funds out before the latter are MIS-appropriated. Pensions are about the only source of funds left that Big Government hasn’t taken over. Yet. Just give the latest czar (czarina) enough time to figure out how to do it (and probably on a Friday or over a three-day holiday weekend…)
gus commented:
I have a very very CONSERVATIVE Congressman.
Jim Sensenbrenner. I called his office about the PIGFORD nonsense. His response was that he was monitoring the case, but that BLACKS HAD DEFINITELY BEEN DISCRIMINATED AGAINST.
So fuxing what. That doesn’t open the God damned flood gates for any Negro to collect.
This isn’t PLAY MONEY.
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
Ovomit is such an azzwipe. 2 more weeks.
Kenny Solomon commented:
I took it one step further………….
Greetings Dishonorable Semi-Paleface….. My name Chief Running Eeeeevil Jooooooooooo.
Give money you make promise. If not, then heap-big peace-pipe party break out with many typical bitter Great Spirit worshiping bow-and-arrow owners.
We know mess that is Semi-Paleface’s ‘wires on many poles’ crossing land will not tell true number and tale of the many brave peace-pipe-party attendees. That ok – we know and you know truth. We not afraid – we never afraid.
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I’ll stop now.
Redwine commented:
This is just a prelude to and a test for the really big swindle just on the horizon – “reparations” for slavery.
Some real horrors are coming down the road.
down with dems commented:
Plus he’s pushing the $250 Medicare checks for the elderly, right before the election.
And HHS put out millions of dollars worth of commercials touting Obamacare to seniors, right before the election.
And, school employees are busing kids to the polls after training them to vote only for Democrats, and giving them ice cream after they vote for Democrats.
13 days is not soon enough. Knock these jokers down a few pegs, and finish them off in 2012.
littledavidpuddy commented:
I am looking forward to all the reparations I will recieve in the future for the rape of and descrimination against white men that is currently taking place in our Country.
Also, look on the bright side, it is only 680 Million, not Billion. I didn’t think the Idiot occupying the White House even knows what a million is anymore.
Finally, at Redwine, they can have my tax money to fund slavery reparations when they pry it from my cold dead hands.
billy sol commented:
he wasted a lot of money, indians vote dimocrat anyway; that’s goes for the naacp too! of course, it is OUR money that he skimmed off of the thug labor unions’ “stimulus” bribe money!!
squeaky commented:
how many times do we hear about people who [one way or other] come into serious money only to lose it to mismanagement or flim flam artists. a fool and his money are soon parted and there’s no shortage of fools here. i’ve seen people in the past who have gone through good sums of money and have nothing to show for it. think of all the lottery winners who end up having to file for bancruptcy – all kinds of things come out of the woodwork and they’re interested in separating you from your money..
money may make your life easier but only if you know how to use it.
squeaky commented:
in the past, the irish were used in the south to
clean out the swamps. irish lives held no value and so if they died they were just replaced. the slaves of the time had value so they weren’t used for such work.
Militant Conservative commented:
littledavidpuddy
October 20th, 2010 | 9:27 pm | #21
Very wrong. when white man is finally a minority THAT is the specific time affirmative action ends.
powder is dry.
Hedgehog commented:
Watch out for the Trillion dollar Omnibus Spending Bill that the Commies are going to ram through. The reparations mentioned in this article, and the $1.25 Billion in Pigford reparations will undoubtedly be buried in there somewhere. Larceny! Outrageous! Intolerable!
gastorgrab commented:
By the “content of their character”, or by the “color of their skin”?
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“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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Andreas K. commented:
Is the lawsuit even finished? Is there even a verdict?
Or are they settling it out of court?
Apparently no verdict whatsoever. They’re settling it.
Way to go.
Those are 680 million that the US doesn’t have.
unknown jane commented:
Damn…knew there was a reason Grandma’s family should’ve gone on the rez.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
What I want to see:
The lists of recipients.
The PIGFORD I and II lists of recipients.
And I want to see how many names and/or addresses match both lists.
I’ll bet it’s not a small number.
MR.ED commented:
Now you see why the dems are not to worried about mid terms or 2012 between unions illegals the grave yards busing people from one poll to another to vote now and often. bussing innercity school kids to polls. acorn/ blackpanther /nation of islam protecting the polls from whity
Marsh commented:
Good Lord. Obama is just handing out billions of dollars to people like it’s no big deal.
Blacks in the Detoit area in the 1950s burned my white grandfathers pub down because he had a relationship with a black woman. Where’s my fat check from the NAACP or Obama?
Illegal immigrants from Mexico murdered my best friend 3 years ago simply because he was white and his girlfriend was hispanic. Where’s the reparation check from La Raza and Mexico to his family?
And where’s the dough from the arab/black/turk muslims who invaded, occupied, colonized, raped, murdered and enslaved my Greek and other European ancestors for several hundred years? Go ahead, CAIR. Cough up that cash money.
No Justice No Peace! *eye roll*
The whole idea of reparations is just ridiculous. There’s plenty of victim cards to be thrown around. I highly doubt that they were really discriminated against.
Besides, so many people claim to be “Native American” just because their great grandmother was. What nonsense.