{"id":9130,"date":"2011-11-01T07:07:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T11:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=9130"},"modified":"2011-11-01T07:07:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T11:07:59","slug":"once-you-begin-to-pay-blackmail-it-never-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=9130","title":{"rendered":"Once You Begin To Pay Blackmail It Never Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yesterday in Memphis, Tennessee, The Commercial Appeal<\/a>\u00a0posted a story on the latest developments in the Pigford Settlement. I have posted a number of articles on the Pigford Settlement in the past, so if you are not familiar with it, use the search feature on this blog.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

U.S. Dist. Judge Paul L. Friedman certified a class of plaintiffs aggregated in 23 separate complaints, including one made by the Memphis-based Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Inc., and its president, Thomas Burrell.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Burrell testified against the proposed settlement in a \u201cfairness\u201d hearing on Sept. 1, arguing that potential claimants should be able to access the much more liberal benefits of the earlier, 1999 settlement known as Pigford I. More than $1 billion has been paid out to more than 22,000 claimants in the first settlement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bottom line–there are some people in our society who have figured out a way to get money for nothing, and they want more!<\/p>\n

Please take the time to read the article, but the part of the article that caught my eye was the comments.<\/p>\n

One of the comments:<\/p>\n

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THE REAL PROBLEM WITH OUR GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM – – – –<\/strong><\/p>\n

The folks who are getting free stuff don’t like the folks who are paying for the free stuff <\/strong>
\nbecause the folks who are paying for the free stuff can no longer afford to pay for both <\/strong>the free stuff and their own stuff.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And the folks who are paying for the free stuff want the free stuff to stop. <\/strong>
\nAnd the folks who are getting the free stuff want even MORE free stuff on <\/strong>top of the free stuff they’re getting already!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now….. <\/strong>
\nThe people who are forcing people to PAY for the free stuff have told the <\/strong>
\npeople who are RECEIVING the free stuff that the people who are PAYING <\/strong>for the free stuff are being mean, prejudiced and racist.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So …. <\/strong>
\nThe people who are GETTING the free stuff have been convinced they need to HATE <\/strong>
\nthe people who are PAYING for the free stuff because they are selfish. <\/strong>
\nAnd they are promised more free stuff if they will vote for the people who force <\/strong>the people who pay for the free stuff to give them even more free stuff<\/strong><\/p>\n

And – – – – – that’s the Straight stuff!<\/strong><\/p>\n

This comment was posted by someone who calls himself tn_rebel. I think he pretty much sums it up. I am sorry that black farmers were discriminated against–that was wrong–but it does not give the people who were discriminated against an unlimited right to the wallets of people who had nothing to do with the discrimination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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