{"id":7837,"date":"2010-11-22T14:24:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T19:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7837"},"modified":"2010-11-22T14:25:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T19:25:28","slug":"senate-passes-pigford-ii-settlement-appropriation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7837\/senate-passes-pigford-ii-settlement-appropriation\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Passes Pigford II Settlement Appropriation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lame duck Congress passed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/senate-approves-4-6-billion-for-black-farmers-indians-20101119 \" target=\"_blank\">a squealer of an appropriation<\/a> last Friday: $1.15 billion funding the <em>Pigford II<\/em> class action lawsuit settlement.\u00a0 Earlier this year CFIF profiled Rep. Steve King (R-IA), a staunch opponent of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/47-legal-reform-tort-reform\/756-feds-pigford-settlements-leave-taxpayers-picking-up-the-tab \" target=\"_blank\">taxpayer-funded giveaway<\/a>.\u00a0 As King and others have pointed out, <em>Pigford I &amp; II<\/em> were initially brought to give black farmers a way to get compensation for past USDA discrimination in farm loans.\u00a0 To date, however, more black farmers have received payments under the settlement than the Census Bureau has records for.\u00a0 The result is quite possibly the biggest civil rights litigation scam in American history.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for picking up the check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lame duck Congress passed a squealer of an appropriation last Friday: $1.15 billion funding the Pigford II class action lawsuit settlement.\u00a0 Earlier this year CFIF profiled Rep. Steve King (R-IA), a staunch opponent of this taxpayer-funded giveaway.\u00a0 As King and others have pointed out, Pigford I &amp; II were initially brought to give black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1312,626,1045,2103,450,2104],"class_list":["post-7837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-census-bureau","tag-civil-rights","tag-discrimination","tag-pigford","tag-steve-king","tag-usda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7840,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7837\/revisions\/7840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}