Posted on 12/30/2010 10:02:09 PM PST by PROCON
President Obama earlier this month signed into law a measure to pay American Indians and black farmers a total of $4.6 billion to cover decades of government mistreatment. Now, a Republican congressman says the GOP-controlled House next year will hold hearings to investigate the settlement, which he says amounts to “reparations.”
Conservative Rep. Steve King of Iowa told local radio station KCIM that the Pigford settlement, which was part of the legislation, “is full of fraud” and “amounts to paying reparations to black farmers in America. We don’t do reparations in America.”
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I’ll believe it when I see it.
WHAT?? I am NOT responsible for what happened before my MOM was born.
I say...we make illegals who want to be legal pay the reparations....
After this was passed, I called Kings office to let him know how much I appreciated him calling it reparations. IMHO, this amounts to people suing over not getting money that no one should have been getting, from an agency that shouldn't even exist.
No, the word is fraud. If people are receiving payments for farming they did not do, if they are compensated for loans they did not seek, if they are compensated for loans they were never qualified for in the first place, then its fraud and someone needs to be doing time in the pen.
Calling it "reparations" muddies the water and gives O some cover for what is out and out fraud. Hard time in the slammer fraud.
Steve King is the best congressman in the House.
Obama earlier this month signed into law a measure to pay American Indians and black farmers a total of $4.6 billion... Conservative Rep. Steve King of Iowa told local radio station KCIM that the Pigford settlement, which was part of the legislation, "is full of fraud" and "amounts to paying reparations to black farmers in America. We don't do reparations in America."
Neither are the unborn children, who are getting the bill for this added to their debt mortgage. The new families who are struggling to make ends meet do not deserve this.
Nothing more than looting the U.S. Treasury just because they can.
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