Posted on 10/20/2010 9:14:14 AM PDT by Nachum
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
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I thought this settlement was to be for Black farmers. When did they switch to American Indian?
It worked so well for the blacks that the indians decided to get in on the scam.
“”most farmers will probably opt for a uniform $50,000 payment, which involves less red tape. “”
Well, that’s a no brainer. Now some enterprising journalist can go throughout the country in search of these farms.
“However, most farmers will probably opt for a uniform $50,000 payment, which involves less red tape.”
yea, that little popup camper and 100x100’ bare yard would cause alot of red tape
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.
It doesn’t say that they had to own the farm. So this settlement is for any American Indian who worked on any farm regardless of who owned it? Am I reading this correctly?
On the plus side the uptick in firewater sales will put a smile on distillers faces...
It worked so well for the blacks that the indians decided to get in on the scam.
They sure are counting our stupidity with this one. Won’t they be surprised to find out that stupid ole us has figured it out again?
Then again, I don’t know that they care.
The two biggest mistakes this country has made and continues to pay for out of proportion were slavery and not intergrating the indians as full and equal citizens instead of this seperate nation concept. There must be some time when this nonsense is resolved and everyone is a non hyphen american, pure and simple.
Does Shirley Sherrod benefit from this? I seem to recall she had rights to some “Indian farms” or an organization of “Indian farms.”
Enough for only 13600 indians to get 50K? This will have to be upped to a billion or so before its over.
Obamanation will pander and bribe any and every ‘ethnic’ group they can.
In fact, this is how the ‘Indian nation’ was destroyed. And it wasn’t ALL the fault of Whitey! Their own corrupt, greedy leaders (often NOT Indian) bribed them, encouraged them to stay ignorant. Some things never change.
Well in the Pigford settlement many of the aggrieved are urban yoots that maybe thought about farming while smoking a blunt.
Indian and hispanic farmers are separate suits. Whitey, who suffered most under usda gets nada.
It's divided by race. The Pigford settlement is for black farmers, couple billion settlement. sherrod and her marxist commune get about $12,000,000 with her &hubby getting $300,000 off the top.
Indian and hispanic farmers are separate suits. Whitey, who suffered most under usda gets nada.
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