Posted on 02/28/2011 12:27:33 AM PST by MissyUrion
Is this Pigford II?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is offering at least $1.3 billion to settle complaints from female and Hispanic farmers who say they faced discrimination from the Agriculture Department. The Agriculture and Justice departments announced Friday that farmers who could prove discrimination could receive up to $50,000. The proposal comes after the government settled with American Indians over similar discrimination issues last fall and Congress provided money for the second round of a black farmers settlement.......
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Hey! What about the transgendered albino midget farmers? How about the Native American lesbian ranchers?
Call me when you get to Bohemian-American non farmers.
What about Irish farmers with gay Mohawk family members? No? OK then, just asking.
I was once told I couldn’t get a woman’s business loan which I didn’t want in the first place and was suggested by a hispanic woman because I am married to a white man. That was their only reason.
What´s Congress´ role in this?
Here is an idea. If yo can’t come up with a photo of you even so much as just carrying a pitchfork on your “farm” from the time period in question, you don’t get the money.
I had a garden in 1981. Where do I sign up?
‘Farmer’ in this instance includes people with a grow lamp in their closet, growing “herbs”.
We’ll never get the details.
Women and minorities denied loans for years, while whites got them more often. Lets see, new farmers, unable to borrow, without established credit.
Obama is digging the hole as fast as can. A true Nero.
Loot the Treasury while the getting is good. This is sick.
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