Here's a good article about the idiotic farm subsidies. Looks like we could kill subsidies thereby saving money and improving the health of the nation. What a concept.
Hows this for more waste? Subject: Pigford v. Glickman
"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 !!
I gotta admit I haven't really followed this story, but it would seem to me that everybody would have been better off all the way around if the original farmers had been treated fairly. Karma usually has a way of coming back to bite you in your ass .
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