Rep. King Stands Up Against ‘Reparations’ Vote, Stands by ‘Urban’ Comment
- Posted on December 2, 2010 at 8:58am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Rep. Steve King (R-IA) took a stand this week against a $4.55 billion vote to settle discrimination claims against the government — a vote he says will cost taxpayers $1.15 billion and amounts to “slavery reparations.”
The money, referred widely to as the Pigford settlement, settles longstanding class action lawsuits against the U.S. Department Agriculture and Department of the Interior. In those suits, black and American Indian farmers claim they were discriminated against when they were denied loans.
But Kings isn’t convinced. According to him, the claims process is riddled with fraud, and the settlement is a costly way of instituting “slavery reparations”:
“The unaccountable lame duck Congress has irresponsibly voted to spend $1.15 billion on a Pigford settlement program that is severely compromised by fraud,” King said in a statement. “This means that people who have never farmed and people who have never been discriminated against by the USDA will be receiving tends of thousands of dollars in cash and debt relief simply for having filed a false claim.”
He continued: “By ignoring Pigford fraud, Congress has allowed the program to change from one designated to address black farmers’ discrimination claims to one that now serves as a modern day slavery reparations program. The American people should be outraged by this vote and the new Congress should make an investigation of Pigford fraud a top priority.”
According to Trevor Loudon over at NZ Patriot, that so much money is being sent to “farmers” is questionable. “‘Farmers’ is in quotation marks because, in one lawsuit alone,” he writes, “five times as many people filed for refunds than ever owned or operated a farm in any way.”
That instance is downplayed by the King’s local paper, which says “a USDA spokesperson responded to King’s claims by point out that out of the 15,000 claims processed under Pigford I, the FBI determined that only three claims were fraudulent.”
Still, King appeared on Anderson Cooper’s show last night to defend his claim, and as to defend himself from charges of racism after calling Barack Obama “very, very urban”:
King referred to Obama as urban on the House floor on Monday, and also grabbed headlines recently when he said the Wikileaks group should be dubbed a “foreign terrorist organization.”
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bookofwisdom
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:45amThis is so sad. It reminds me of the BP checks. I know people who did not deserve checks that applied for the money and got twice what they asked for. I‘ll never understand those who think it is their right to get money that they did not work for and don’t deserve. Isn‘t that why we are in the awful fix we’re in now? I pray that the government will soon open it’s eyes and see what We The People already see. May God Bless.
Report Post »temple62
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:44amSpend, spend, spend – for Blacks, it is the next best thing the lottery!
Report Post »Uncle Sambo
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:03amAnd don’t you forget the Katrina Bonanza. Cha Ching Jackpot. Funny thing a year before Katrina Orlando Fl. got hit twice by hurricanes. Some people were hit paying their insurance detectable twice. It really depended if the repairs were made between hurricanes or not.
You didn‘t see your O’ Uncle Sambo rush in give out like candy prepayed debit cards. But, with Katrina it was different because the parasitical looters cried racism.
Report Post »Tagudinian
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:40amMr King is a fighter… and I am in his corner. This slavery con has gone too far. Reparations? Good Lord. These people should be grateful to be living in America. They should be paying America for the opportunity to live and thrive here.
Report Post »alcarfl
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:34amIf you growz weed, you bezz a farmer and getz a check. Thanks Shirley. I never met a black farmer I didn’t like because I never met a black farmer. Even down south. Is the south side of Chicago considered an ag zone? I’ll bet half the recently filed (late) claims were stirred up by “community organizers” who learned a craft from POTUS. Are there any “entitlement programs” availlable for overweight, 70 year old cancer surviving, American-born white veterans with heart trouble? Nothing?
Report Post »Uncle Sambo
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:41amAh, come on. Let the racist spooks provoke their race little war. After all they deserve all the taxpayer subsidized freebies that your Uncle Sambo hands out. They’ve been kept down for over 500 years by the man.
Report Post »blacksmith
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:34amThis is the problem with the our system of representation. The urban population is growing and the rural population is shrinking. The producers of food,oil and other vital products get very little say in government due to most of the population living in urban centers. These urban populations use up more of the tax dollars than do the rural populations in the form of services that are provided to them such as police and fire services, public transportation and medical services. The people that pay the least in taxes use the most services and these services are subsidized with rural tax dollars. This is not a race issue it is an urban/rural issue.
Report Post »Uncle Sambo
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:33amI am all for giving the spooks more freebies. No amount of reparations is enough. Come on folks. It time to call a spade a spade.
Report Post »DSTSS2010
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 11:08amMajor TROLL! Go back to MSNBC/Huffington Post or whatever Communist organization you are working for..
Report Post »Uncle Sambo
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 11:25amA spade is a spade no matter how you call it.
You know what? I bet there you that are plenty posters here that are so sick of the blacks crying racism and expecting freebies, that they’ve let the N-Word slip out more than a few times.
“I am black. we’ve been kept down for five-hundred years. I deserve reparations. You are an Uncle Tom. You are a racist”.
How, can you look at Charlie Rangel, Jesse Jackson, Maxine Waters and Al Sharpton and not think it?
Report Post »RoBoTech
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 5:19pmdstdumbo
Report Post »I see what you are doing Socialist.
this is the 3rd time I have seen you do this.
The “troll” is YOU, buckwheat.
BRAVEHEART
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:26amSounds like the Pigs,,,I mean congress and the Pigford Settlement are plagued with frauds. Isn’t that business as usual in the Lame Dead Duck session or Congress??
Report Post »mcFirst
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:22amrunning a con – it’s becoming the american way.
Report Post »Star Spangled
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:21amThis is Obama buying more votes for him and his party in 2012 . It should be investigated and people should go to jail .
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:37amIf you or I did what Rangel did, we WOULD be in jail. (Donald Trump agrees) and nothing.. and Maxine Waters?? Trial delayed AGAIN? No on goes to jail unless they have an “R” after their name. There will be NO investigation and NO jail time for these liberal socialists who have complete power now, I’m afraid. :(
Report Post »EP46
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:12amThere will be no election in 2012 if the coup is not stopped now. Obama will be a Dictator such as Hugo by then. The CZARS using Regulations are taking over the govenment !! Stop the Insanity !
coup d”etat….the sudden overthrow of a govenment usually by a small but critical group inside the government to replace the existing government with another body. Typically a coup then uses the existing government’s power to assume political power of the country.
We do not need an armed force to take over our country, they are doing it from within the White House.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:21amThe WHITE obama is urbane…the BLACK obama is a RACIST…when I saw this speech on C-Span I immediately remembered Van Jones talking about native Americans…and he was shouting GIVE THEM THE WEALTH…well, they will get a lot if this is approved. Remember also, obama gave a Shout Out to Joe Medicine Crow BEFORE he addressed the American people about the Gulf oil spill. Contact your elected representatives and demand NO MORE SPENDING
Report Post »ETOOL USMC RECON
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:19amI’m all for reparations…..We should seek them for the black cheiftains that sold the slaves into slavery and brought them to the US. So what would the cost be of:
6 generations of welfare, incarceration (the disporopotional number of blacks in prison), etc. etc.
This doesn’t even account fot the total demise of the self esteem of countless inner city blacks that have the HUGE chip on their shoulder….that EVERYTHING against them is racist.
So lets CHARGE the blacks that started all of this!
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:17amWhat about the Caucasian, Asian, or Hispanic farmers who have ever been denied loans?? With the role of Affirmative Action in our society all of these years, can these Black and Native American farmers really cry racism?? I guess so…..and win billions in reperations…..what a country! Makes me want to be a minority…..so that I can get paid!
Report Post »I sure do love this “post-racial” era that Pres. Obammy has ushered in……don’t you???
@leftfighter
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:17amKing’s comments here are unfortunate, in that it’s unfortunate that we have to call it out when it seems obvious that race targeting is involved.
Given the massive fraud readily apparent here, I can see how he would arrive at the conclusion.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:17amLook! A spine!!!!
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:22amI CAN SEE IT!!!!
Report Post »lol good one!
wildjoker5
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:47amand it isn’t yellow.
Report Post »suzy000
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:16amIF….King is right….Congress has shirked it’s duties to the American people. It is their job to pass proper legislation that has not been corrupted or enhanced with fraud. Americans are tired of legislators bucking to Political Correctness because they fear a “majority’ or a “minority”. I think it is time to institute a required continuing education Founding Fathers Course every 2 years to ALL legislators as a requirement to stay in office as done throughout the spectrum in the workforce. Maybe then they will understand legislating and governing as our forefathers came close to perfecting in order to make this country exceptional!
Report Post »Awakenow
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:15amWhere are the reparations to compemsate Honest taxpayers?
Report Post »FANGS
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:14amOn the Blaze we talk. Can anyone on here talk to some Republican leader and ask them to head an organized ousting, on a particular date. People, Just like you, there isn’t much keeping us from going postal.Obama is a Traitor to our Country. He must be removed NOW.
Report Post »Reagan/Demint.deciple
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:11amAlways pulling the race card whenever they don’t like something.. These liberals/progressives are all the same, they are OBSESSED with race…
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:10amDoes the arrogance of this Congress never stop? When are states going to take a stand, when are people going to take a stand and say “no more”. It has been yelled loudly in Nov but apparently Congress thinks we‘re kidding or that there aren’t enough people yelling. Defund, do something to stop this bleeding of our children and grandchildren’s future. Anyone who takes one penny of that money without bullet-proof documentation should go to jail.
Report Post »Attila
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:10amThis whole mess is another grand SCAM in the name of Reparations.
Report Post »It started out with a small group of people and has grown into thousands and thousands.
wildjoker5
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:45amNo, welfare is where reperations started. Why do you think there are such a high percentage of blacks on the government tit or voting 95% democrat?
Report Post »guyperram
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:09amI say we should pay any American that was in slavery, at any time in his life, in America a reparation. If they dislike this country so much, leave. Otherwise get on with your life and forget the nonsense.
Report Post »wildjoker5
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:43amWouldn’t that be no one? Doubt anyone is 170 years old still living.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:44amThere is only one small point in your argument you have missed; all the Americans held in slavery in America are long dead. Their children and descendants are free, and have been for several of the last generations.
Report Post »guyperram
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:57amYes, but they have never been held in slavery. Of course, if you believe in the Communist mantra, any wage earner is nothing but a slave to the evil capitalist (like me) and should be set free so they can establish the dictatoship of the prolitaeriate.
Report Post »Once again, bogus argument created by those that wish to continue the “loser” mentality currently rampant in that community. Look at the wonderful job they did on the family, the neighborhoods (rife with drugs), etc. The criminals are those that did what they did.
GHill7.62
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:58amthat was his point. there is nobody in the US that was alive for slavery, therefore, nobody in the US deserves reparations
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:09amGood for him, will we ever stop cowing down to these bums? We took them in when the muslims were going to kill them for not converting to islam, treated them often better than our own kids, certainly better any of the immigrants that came over at that time. Fought a war where a huge percentage of our population died to free them even though 1/2 had been freed before the war stated, and the rest would have been freed within 20 years. The steam engine and cotton gen had been invented slavery was no longer economically viable, they would have been freed without the bloodshed.
Report Post »danieljersey
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 1:13pmWhile I agree its time to move on from the complaints of slavery, at the same time I am disturbed how lately many people have this idea that slavery was this magical creation where blacks lived like kings. More and more people must be on Meth because for some reason believe the Antebellum period was Eden. The slaves were beaten to work long hours, had their families ripped apart, and were raped daily by slave master’s and their sons. Don’t diminish slavery to suit your pathetic racist beliefs.
Report Post »ETOOL USMC RECON
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:09amRep. Steve King is definately DOWN FOR THE STRUGGLE…….The RIGHT one.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:19amI am sick and tired of people of color expecting preferecial treatment because the polititions are afraid of being called racists. Good for King, this reparation crap has to stop. There is not a single American alive today who was a slave, nor is there anyone alive who ever owned a slave. Who should pay the reparations? my family wasn’t in America during the slave era. I‘m a third generation American I don’t want to pay for this, none of my family were guilty of slave ownership.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:08amThis isn’t about race. It’s about the fraud.
That the FBI could only find three cases of fraud tells me they aren’t looking. Maybe Holder’s got the same division handling this as the New Black Panthers case.
This is simple numbers! How do five times as many people file for refunds than ever owned or operated a farm in any way and it *not* involve massive fraud?
Report Post »wildjoker5
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:41amThe case with only 3 frauds was years ago. This case has 3 times as many blacks than there are black farmers asking money from discrimination.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:43amMost likely holder has just told everyone that if they prosecute fraud against non-whites they will in turn be charged with misconduct and civil-rights violations of all types, in addition to having their professional reputations dragged so deep into the muck they will never work anywhere again.
Report Post »Highland
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:00amBarry wants to be considered urbane, but urban is about as good as it gets.
Report Post »wildjoker5
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:14am“Urban” is a racist term now? What about “hood”, or “street”? I got a good racist term for ya, “Racist”.
Report Post »cognitivedissonance
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:30amOh don’t be stupid, you know full well that urban often infers black.
And if you don‘t understand how words work maybe you shouldn’t be in public office.
tobywil2
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:33amIf the tyrant is to remain in power, he must reward his political cronies. Those supported the tyrant, should not balk at paying his debts. After all, isn’t the hallmark of tyranny the deployment of wealth for political purposes? http://commonsense21c.com/
Alvin691
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:35am@cognitivedissonance Urban is not black, it implies city dwelling people that are in the welfare loop. White, black, whatever. Don’t play games.
Report Post »wildjoker5
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:37am…And you know when blacks say “racist”, it means white. So it is a racist term just as the N-word.
Report Post »wildjoker5
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:39amAlvin,
Unless you want to always mean blacks are on welfare, then if you agree with that even when you are black, that should be an indication that there is a problem with that community that wants to just mooch off the system of handouts provided by democrats.
Report Post »nsblues
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:48am@cognitivedissonance Don’t be a moron. Look at the context. Urban Senator-Farm Bill. His point was that someone who has absolutely nothing to do with farms was introducing the legislation. Get a clue.
Report Post »Neuhouser
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 9:49amYeah urban is definatelly racist, because everybody knows white people don’t live in cities.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:02amThis is my understanding of the term “urban”
Urban: u-r-banned. as in Impeach the ever loving administration, try Pelosi, Reid, Biden, Clinton and Obama for high treason and conspiracy and whatever other charges according to the law apply. In addition to any and all civil rights violations for each and every american citizen in the country.
Report Post »cognitivedissonance
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:04amSeriously, you know full well when someone uses a term like “urban culture” they are referring to black culture. Don’t play stupid.
Report Post »pavnvet
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:07am@ wildjoker5.. urban is a racist term???? What about urban legends? Although some are racist in nature, the overwhelming majority of them are not. What about the movie, “Urban Cowboys?” Or, maybe your racist remark is referring to the Urban League which advocates and is made up mostly of African Americans?
It is getting so that if you are white and say you own a black cat or black Lab retriever you are somehow racist. You need some serious counseling. Stop looking for ulterior motives or subliminal meanings in everything that a person can utter on a controversial subject.
Rep. King is right on with his remarks and motivations. He is standing up for the MAJORITY of American taxpayers.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:09amJust found this out about the bail outs from the feds, it is some interesting reading in brief…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/01/AR2010120106870.html
Once again it shows just how bad we have been lied to and manipulated.
Report Post »emsawyer
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:22amI have never heard the word urban used to mean blacks. That’s just plain stupid if you ask me. To me and, I’d be willing to wager, everyone I know, urban simply means in the city. So, you’re telling me that someone who lives in the Omaha proper, which would be an urban area, is necessarily black and/or poor? Again, that’s just plain stupid. I’m sick and tired of people changing the meanings of simple words to something ugly and allegedly “racist”.
Report Post »Silversmith
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:42amOkay this is one of those conversations that is more about the people talking than the words being used.
From the dictionary:
ur·ban
[ur-buhn] Show IPA
–adjective
1.
of, pertaining to, or designating a city or town.
2.
living in a city.
3.
characteristic of or accustomed to cities; citified: He is an urban type.
Any of you who are equating race with this word are looking through the lens of your own racism as you decide what KIND of people live in a city.
It’s your own racism NOT the word.
Stop whining.
Silversmith
Report Post »Oh, God!
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 11:55am@ SILVERSMITH, very well said.
Report Post »LtdGovt
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 12:27pm@COGNITAVEDISSONANCE,
Report Post »Your racism is showing. Why do you have to make it about race. It is about people who have never lived or owned a farm but who live in urban areas. There is no race implication other than the one you are drawing. Obama is urban. He comes from an urban area-Chicago. Most of our modern presidents are urban. Get over it. IT‘S NOT ABOUT THE COLOR OF A MAN’S SKIN BUT THE CONTENT OF HIS CHARACTER!
APatriotFirst
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 12:28pmKing is a good guy. I lived in Iowa just 2 months ago for 20 years. Steve stands up for Iowans and Americans. He is honest and Iowa loves him. He is not a racist of any kind. We need more Steve King types.
Report Post »alaskarob
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 3:51pmSo cognitivedissonance, by your reasoning an urban youth is blackeven if he’s white. It must be exhausting to wear your racism like thar
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 4:04pmI live in an urban dwelling but I just went outside and the house is white, totally confused now. I think what King was referring to is the problem of having the urban elitist in the white house push to have the American people redistribute the Chinese money. We are being screwed by the urban dwellers.
Report Post »davecoolworld
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 5:31pmRacism can be found everywhere if you are paranoid. Don‘t you think it’s racist if black olives are in a can, while the green olives are in a nice glass jar? Some people would try to paint that as racist.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on December 3, 2010 at 10:12amI don’t know what kind of crack you people are smoking, but Barack Obama is NOT “Urban”.
Barack Obama is a suburbanite house n!99a perpetrating a fraud.
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