By now everyone with any sense agrees that the Pigford case that perhaps began as a righteous case has degenerated into a blatant wealth-redistribution, racial reparations case.
Pigford v. Glickman was a racial discrimination class-action case alleging discrimination on the part of local U.S. Department of Agriculture offices, mostly in the South. The number of farmers that deserved to win awards was small, but when the usual suspects, the poverty and race pimps, got wind of it, they urged every black person who had ever grown a tomato plant to claim to have been an aggrieved farmer.
The result was thousands of settlements to black people who had never been near a farm, with a resultant billion-dollar loss to U.S. taxpayers. Now Pigford II, as it is called, is underway. It’s not a class-action case, but an extension of Pigford that just dumps $1.5 billion down the same rat hole. And, of course, every liberal Democrat is on board, including U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan.
U.S. Senator Kay R. Hagan today announced that the Senate unanimously passed a bill to fund the $1.15 billion settlement that black farmers reached with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. The bill now awaits passage by the House.
“The Senate has come through for our country’s black farmers,” Hagan said. “I have worked with my colleagues to right this wrong for our farmers, and today we are a critical step closer to giving them the justice they deserve. I will continue my efforts to see that a bill including the settlement funding is sent to the President’s desk.”
And we wonder why we have a debt crisis. Luckily, House Republicans are opposing this travesty. Let’s hope they prevail, for the sake of the American taxpayer.
This is only the second in what could be a long line of Pigfords. In the wings is another effort at the same scam that backers hope will include women and other minorities in the scam.
