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No Wonder Our Country is Broke -

No wonder people are so cynical about the government.

“In 1997, 400 African-American farmers sued the United States Department of Agriculture , alleging that they had been unfairly denied USDA loans due to racial discrimination during the period 1983 to 1997.”

The case was entitled “Pigford v. Glickman” and in 1999, the black farmers won their case.

The government agreed to pay each of them as much as $50,000 to settle their claims.

But then on February 23, 2010, something shocking happened in relation to that original judgment: In total silence, the USDA agreed to release more funds to “Pigford”.

The amount was a staggering...$1.25 billion. This was because the original number of plaintiffs – 400 black farmers – had now... swollen in a class action suit to include a total of 86,000 black farmers throughout America.

There was only one teensy problem:

The United States of America doesn’t have 86,000 black farmers!!!

According to accurate and totally verifiable Official USDA 2007 Census census data, the total number of black farmers throughout America is only 39,697. Hmmm... by the Official USDA 1992 Census data the US had only 18,816 black farmers!

Oops !!

Well, gosh - how on earth did 39,697 explode into the fraudulent 86,000 claims?

And how did $50,000 explode into $1.25 billion??

Well, folks, you’ll just have to ask the woman who not only spearheaded this case because of her position in 1997 at the “Rural Development Leadership Network” but whose family received the highest single payout (approximately $13 million) from that action – Shirley Sherrod. (Remember Shirley?)

Sherrod, she was in the news a short time ago after being fired by the Obama administration from her position as USDA Rural Development State Director in Georgia.

Oops again!!

Yes, folks. It appears that Ms. Sherrod may have just unwittingly exposed one of the biggest fraud claims in the United States - when she screamed racism at the government and cowed them into submission. And it gets even more interesting.

As it turns out, the original judgment of “Pigford v. Glickman” in 1999 only applied to a total of about 16,000 black farmers.

But.... in 2008, a junior US Senator got a law passed to reopen the case and allow more black farmers to sue for funds. The Senator was Barack Hussein Obama.

Because this law was passed in dead silence and because the woman responsible for spearheading it was an obscure USDA official, American taxpayers did not realize that they had just been forced in the midst of a worldwide depression to pay out more than $1.25 billion to settle a race claim.

But Andrew Breitbart knew. And on Monday, July 22, 2010, he cleverly laid a trap which Sherrod - - and Obama and his cronies - - stumbled headfirst into which has now resulted in the entire world discovering the existence of this corrupt financial judgment.

As for Ms. Sherrod... Well, she’s discovering too late that her cry of ‘racism’ to the media which was intended to throw the spotlight on Breitbart has instead thrown that spotlight on herself – and the huge corruption she was involved in.

Sherrod has now vanished from public view. Her ‘pigs’, it seems, have come home to roost.

Oink!!!

But the perpetrator of that law passed in dead silence leading to unlawful claims & corruption is still trying to fool all of US.

"A wise and frugal government ... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." --Thomas Jefferson

Google "Pigford vs. Glickman" and read it for yourself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigford_v._Glickman

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No Wonder Our Country is Broke -

No wonder people are so cynical about the government.

“In 1997, 400 African-American farmers sued the United States Department of Agriculture , alleging that they had been unfairly denied USDA loans due to racial discrimination during the period 1983 to 1997.”

The case was entitled “Pigford v. Glickman” and in 1999, the black farmers won their case.

The government agreed to pay each of them as much as $50,000 to settle their claims.

But then on February 23, 2010, something shocking happened in relation to that original judgment: In total silence, the USDA agreed to release more funds to “Pigford”.

The amount was a staggering...$1.25 billion. This was because the original number of plaintiffs – 400 black farmers – had now... swollen in a class action suit to include a total of 86,000 black farmers throughout America.

There was only one teensy problem:

The United States of America doesn’t have 86,000 black farmers!!!

According to accurate and totally verifiable Official USDA 2007 Census census data, the total number of black farmers throughout America is only 39,697. Hmmm... by the Official USDA 1992 Census data the US had only 18,816 black farmers!

Oops !!

Well, gosh - how on earth did 39,697 explode into the fraudulent 86,000 claims?

And how did $50,000 explode into $1.25 billion??

Well, folks, you’ll just have to ask the woman who not only spearheaded this case because of her position in 1997 at the “Rural Development Leadership Network” but whose family received the highest single payout (approximately $13 million) from that action – Shirley Sherrod. (Remember Shirley?)

Sherrod, she was in the news a short time ago after being fired by the Obama administration from her position as USDA Rural Development State Director in Georgia.

Oops again!!

Yes, folks. It appears that Ms. Sherrod may have just unwittingly exposed one of the biggest fraud claims in the United States - when she screamed racism at the government and cowed them into submission. And it gets even more interesting.

As it turns out, the original judgment of “Pigford v. Glickman” in 1999 only applied to a total of about 16,000 black farmers.

But.... in 2008, a junior US Senator got a law passed to reopen the case and allow more black farmers to sue for funds. The Senator was Barack Hussein Obama.

Because this law was passed in dead silence and because the woman responsible for spearheading it was an obscure USDA official, American taxpayers did not realize that they had just been forced in the midst of a worldwide depression to pay out more than $1.25 billion to settle a race claim.

But Andrew Breitbart knew. And on Monday, July 22, 2010, he cleverly laid a trap which Sherrod - - and Obama and his cronies - - stumbled headfirst into which has now resulted in the entire world discovering the existence of this corrupt financial judgment.

As for Ms. Sherrod... Well, she’s discovering too late that her cry of ‘racism’ to the media which was intended to throw the spotlight on Breitbart has instead thrown that spotlight on herself – and the huge corruption she was involved in.

Sherrod has now vanished from public view. Her ‘pigs’, it seems, have come home to roost.

Oink!!!

But the perpetrator of that law passed in dead silence leading to unlawful claims & corruption is still trying to fool all of US.

"A wise and frugal government ... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." --Thomas Jefferson

Google "Pigford vs. Glickman" and read it for yourself.

http://en.wikipedia....ord_v._Glickman

Well here we are, a new generation of kids, that could care less about the what's going on within our country, Washington treating us like we can't make decisions for ourselves, stripping us of our freedoms little by little, taking more and more money to send overseas, creating taxes on taxes for more money to roll into Washington. When will enough by enough. Then under the table, back door deals that you and me never hear about and just because they can.

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The links serving as evidence below are nothing but the rantings of a couple of bloggers making ignorant assumptions about the Pigford case. Sure, it was clever to go to the U.S. census and look up the number of black farmers and compare that figure to the number of Pigford claimants. That puzzling discrepancy would have made for a great question to look up or personally ask of the USDA. Instead of asking the question and getting the answer, the bloggers chose to make unfounded claims of fraud and corruption.

There are reliable bloggers, and there are unreliable bloggers. A reliable blogger tracks down answers instead of making ignorant accusations. For example, a good place for a blogger with questions to start would have been this 2006 Government Accountability Office report. Right on the first page you can see that the court didn't rely on the census to determine Pigford claimant eligibility:

As used in this report, the phrase “African-American farmers” refers to the class as defined by the court and not a more general definition. The certified class was defined as all African-American farmers who (1) farmed or attempted to farm between January 1, 1981, and December 31, 1996; (2) applied to USDA during that period for loans or benefits and believe they were discriminated against in USDA’s response to that application; and (3) filed a discrimination complaint on or before July 1, 1997, regarding USDA’s treatment of their applications.

Anyone who wanted a full understanding of how exactly 400 farmers exploded into 86,000 before blogging like a juvenile knee-jerk lunkhead could have read this transcript of the 2004 Judiciary Committe hearing on the "notice" provision in the Pigford vs. Glickman consent decree. Honey, I know it's 300 pages, but if you can't take 10 minutes to skim through it, you don't have any business blogging about it.

Another report that would have been helpful to a blogger looking for answers is this April 21, 2010 Congressional Research Service report. This report details the evolution of "Pigford II" which was launched by the 2008 Farm Bill. Don't thank Barack Obama for Pigford II, thank Republican Senator Charles Grassley for sponsoring this bill in the 110th congress, or thank Republican Senator George Allen for sponsoring it in the 109th congress.

If you wanted to blog accurately about Pigford you could have also interviewed an actual claimant. You can read such an interview at Salon.com.

Apparently collecting the facts is too difficult an exercise for some folks. No, after making wild accusations and relying on a couple of irresponsible paranoid bloggers for "facts," the tinfoil-hat-wearing author of the viral email below makes stabs at both NPR and Snopes.com. Ain't that something? A proven ignoramus and/or liar attacking NPR and Snopes.com for not reporting on his load of made-up black farmer census conspiracy B.S.

Honey, I hope you'll take a couple of lessons away from this unfortunate episode. First off, don't get caught up in these ridiculous TV and radio talker stampedes. Second, learn how to spot liars, frauds and nincompoops trying to pass themselves off as investigative reporters.

http://www.liepie.com/grannys-entire-collection-of-lie-pies/231-breitbart-sherrod-and-pigford

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