Posted on 11/19/2010 4:36:28 PM PST by Dallas59
WASHINGTON – The Senate has approved almost $4.6 billion to settle long-standing claims brought by American Indians and black farmers against the government.
The money has been held up for months in the Senate as Democrats and Republicans squabbled over how to pay for it. The two class action lawsuits were filed over a decade ago.
The settlements include almost $1.2 billion for black farmers who say they suffered discrimination at the hands of the Agriculture Department. Also, $3.4 billion would go to Indian landowners who claim they were swindled out of royalties by the Interior Department. The legislation was approved in the Senate by voice vote Friday and sent to the House.
Elouise Cobell, a member of the Blackfeet Tribe from Browning, Mont. and the lead plaintiff in the Indian case, said Friday that it took her breath away when she found out the Senate had passed the bill. She was feeling despondent after the chamber had tried and failed to pass the legislation many times and two people who would have been beneficiaries had died on her reservation this week.
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Where’s mine??? My Great Grandmother escaped the Trail of Tears. I want payment FOR LIFE......including my spawn. /s
Why don’t you ask for air-pressure activated, low rider shocks while your at it? And fluffy dice? You can’t eat fluffy dice when the government finally runs out of money!
That's racist!
Thank god it’s not racist. :)
“Hispanic and women farmers also have cases pending against the department”
For the life of me, with food stamps and welfare, unearned EEO jobs etc. they have already been paid, except for the Native Americans LOL
I’ve never seen a black farmer before. I also live in a rural area surrounded by family farms. Plenty of blacks live around here.
The only thing to understand about this is that this is a payoff to more minorities to get their votes. The money will be distributed in ways to maximize negro and Indian voting for dems. There really is NOTHING else to understand about it.
Who voted for this crap?
It would be bad enough if that alone were the case. This is a Stimulus Fund payoff to "friends of friends" in the Black Caucus and Federal Bureaucracy.
Most HUGE payoffs will go to "Black Farmers" who bought vast tracts of land quite recently which they have NEVER farmed. This is the American version of Mafia infiltration of government. At least the real Mafia actually produces many agricultural products! These melanin and govermentally favored fellows? Fuggedaboutit!
Many a St. Patrick's Day will pass before they grow a cabbage or a cow.
Reparations. There never have been as many Indian and Black farmers as the hundreds of thousands who are now feeding at the reparations trough. Shame on any Congressman who votes for this give-away of money we are borrowing from China.
The long march through redistribution of wealth continues.
Yeah right this is all fine, but why do MY GRANDKIDS have to pay?
MY GRANDKIDS didn’t steal anything from anyone. So why are they being burdened with excessive taxation to pay for it?
AND THE GODDAMN LAZY GHETTOBUILDERS WHO CAPTURED AND SOLD FROM AFRICA BY THEIR OWN KIND PAY ME RESTITUTION FOR ALL THE THOUSANDS WHO DIED IN THE CIVIL WAR TO SET THEIR LAZY NUTTS FREE FROM THE MOST KINDLY FORM OF SLAVERY THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN AND RESCUED THEIR SORRY ASSES FROM A LIFE OF HELL AND SQUALOR IN THAT GHETTO OF CONTINENT CALLED AFRICA!!!!
alll of these politicians can go to hell ! I hate the govenment in all of its vile forms from the county to the federal craphole in DC
I DEMANDT MY RESTITUTION FROM THESE BLACK AND RED BASTARDS RIGHT NOW DAMMIT !!!!!!!!
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