In a Friday afternoon news-dump, US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and a representative of the Obama Justice Department announced a bombshell: the Obama administration has set up their own “streamlined process” for women and Hispanic farmers to collect damages from the federal government for alleged past discrimination.
Like the fraud-filled Pigford claim persons who claim to have “attempted-to” farm will be eligible for awards of up to fifty thousand dollars each. In response to a question from Big Government’s Lee Stranahan the Department of Justice laid out a set of requirements that is eerily similar to the Pigford claims process, such as categories of “farmed” or “attempted-to-farm,” “owned land” or “attempted-to-own land,” standards that will almost certainly result in thousands of fraudulent claims.
This low standard creates a simple way for people to game the system by claiming that they attempted to farm.
Responding to a follow-up by Stranahan, Secretary Vilsack also laid out an extensive outreach program that he said would include the USDA, lawyers and community organizers. National Black Farmers Association President John Boyd, who has been exposed as a serial exaggerator in recent articles here at Big Government, has been doing “outreach” to women farmers for the past several months.
Vilsack did not indicate that Boyd would be excluded from future outreach.
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