WASHINGTON, DC, June 16 — Poor white farmers in America will live in debt, but farmers of color get their loans forgiven if the USDA underlings of the Biden administration have their way. President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 [ARPA] in March, but it didn’t get much attention at the time. It’s getting a lot of unwanted attention now that it’s been revealed that the plan is to pit poor farmers against each other based on their racial heritage.
Bob Carlstrom, president of AMAC Action, the advocacy arm of the Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC], describes the USDA’s interpretation of the law as “shameful.
A poor farmer is a poor farmer.
His or her ability to survive financially is what counts. Skin color has nothing to do with it. Playing the race card in this manner is downright reprehensible and un-American.
All men are created equal, and that means that all poor men and all poor women, whether they are black or white, are equally needy. One might think that the Biden administration seeks to promote racial unrest rather than equity.”
Carlstrom says the decision to interpret the ARPA law the way they did is bound to have undesirable consequences. “It’s reverse racism at its best.”
It all came to light when a federal judge in Wisconsin declared a key provision of the law unconstitutional in a ruling he handed down last week. U.S. District Judge William Griesbach said in his ruling: “Plaintiffs [white farmers] are excluded from the program based on their race and are thus experiencing discrimination at the hands of their government.” He went on to note that, under Section 1005, ARPA requires that “the Secretary [of Agriculture] shall provide a payment in an amount up to 120 percent of the outstanding indebtedness of each socially disadvantaged farmer or rancher to pay off the loan directly or to the socially disadvantaged farmer or rancher.”
The USDA’s Website specifically identifies those “socially disadvantaged farmers” who are eligible for debt relief to “include those who are one or more of the following: Black/African American, American Indian, Alaskan Native, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, or Pacific Islander.”
The ARPA law set aside some $4 billion to pay as much as 120% of direct or guaranteed farm loan balances owed by “socially disadvantaged” borrowers– some 17,000 farmers of color.
Meanwhile, the Agriculture Department says it is not giving up that easily. The Department’s PR guy, Matt Herrick, told the Washington Post that: “We respectfully disagree with this temporary order, and USDA will continue to forcefully defend our ability to carry out this act of Congress and deliver debt relief to socially disadvantaged borrowers. When the temporary order is lifted, USDA will be prepared to provide the debt relief authorized by Congress.”
The Wisconsin lawsuit was filed by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty on behalf of the plaintiffs, 12 farmers, and ranchers from nine states. The Institute’s president and general counsel, Rick Esenberd, had this to say about the ruling:
“The Court recognized that the federal government’s plan to condition and allocate benefits on the basis of race raises grave constitutional concerns and threatens our clients with irreparable harm. The Biden administration is radically undermining bedrock principles of equality under the law. We look forward to continuing this litigation but urge the administration to change course now.”
The USDA has decided to try overturning the judge’s ruling. They have until June 18 to respond to Judge Griesbach’s temporary restraining order. But his ruling appears to be the strong one in its simplicity. In his words, “Congress can implement race-neutral programs to help farmers and ranchers in need of financial assistance, such as requiring individual determinations of disadvantaged status or giving priority to loans of farmers and ranchers that were left out of the previous pandemic relief funding. But it cannot discriminate on the basis of race.”
UP next follow the trail of missing paperwork like the student loan relief or the mortgage fiasco.
Well the Democrat party has a very long history of bigotry and racism, so it is certainly NOT surprising that they would consider this racist approach appropriate. What is somewhat surprising is that so many minority members within the Democrat party continue to view the Democrat party as the party of inclusion and tolerance. The exact opposite of what the Democrat party actually is. One has to wonder what it would actually take to for those people to see the Democrat party for what it truly is and realize they are nothing more than useful pawns to a party grounded firmly in bigotry and racism. Is the lure of “free stuff” so overwhelmingly compelling, that people are willing to be used and then quickly discarded when they have fulfilled their value to the party? Just a thought.
Another half assed plan from Biden Harris rigeme
Food is food no matter who grows it ITs needed.
End these games with farmers.
No food=No life
Discusting how they are looking for votes. Why is it that our incompitient left wing media has not cover this for all to know.
crazy to base it on race instead of financial conditions… we need the farmers to survive. That’s vital.
Talk about a double standard! It was done when quotas were put in place when hiring and now in farming. Skin color should NOT be the deciding factor! This will only infuriate all and create an bigger gap in all areas!!!!!
This is telling of the current administration’s agenda, to divide and conquer our republic and turn it into a socialist cesspool. Not a fan
This is shameful. I agree that it is racism in the reverse and should not be allowed. If our government acts in this manner, there will be racial unrest in our country and they are supposed to be working against racism. This is a poor way of showing so.
When I heard about this proposal a few days ago, the media underscored that this program was designed for farmers of color. I had to do a double-take on the message when the report said it was for minorities. What, I thought, had this proposal had anything to do with race. Growing food is just that….growing food. Our God does not care who is growing food, the weather does not care who is growing food, the markets do no care who is growing food, and the government should not care who is growing food. When federal money is being handed out for any program to support “lower income farmers”, the color of one’s skin should be the farthest thing from anyone’s mind. Only Marxist Democrats could be stupid enough to come up with some of these distinguishing features. Those people in the USDA should admit that they did not think this program through. But alas, they appear to be fighting this through the injunctive process and intend to discriminate against low income farmers to achieve their own racist goals. How shameful!
Well there you have it. No discrimination based on race.
What could be clearer?
Add “socially disadvantaged” to the list of nonsense terms, i.e. “woke”, ” critical race theory “.
We should support ALL the farmers who now find themselves in a financial bind. These are the great folks who feed us.
I doubt this administration or any of the social engineers promoting collectivist theories ever produced a single ear of corn or a bushel of wheat.
As a rural, Christian, veteran, white male I don’t see many options for people like me.
Do you think the libs would allow me to put my name on the endangered species list?
No, that would never happen. Some other woke lib might get the idea they actually cared about the human race.
Joe doesn’t have the mental ability to form this plan! However, the whiney Minority Team of Obum & Rice do
It’s clear Joe Biden advocates racists policies. Somehow reverse discrimination is considered acceptable to liberals? What a lot of crap! This kind of thinking will reverse progress against racial hatred. It’s as simple as that. Idiots.
Joe sure knows how to unite people, doesn’t he! Those claiming racist are the racists themselves. I’m sick of it. Why does it matter what color someone’s skin is? That sure doesn’t determine who they are at all.
Until America has congressional TERM LIMITS—- it will be impossible to eradicate the system of all the PROFESSIONAL LIARS, DRUNKS, WHORES, AND THIEVES that make up what is known as the US Congress !!!!
The POOR farmers I know are no longer in farming due to multiple things————–the biggest reason: MISMANAGEMENT !!
The Democrat party platform seems to be Wokeness in any and all forms, and the Green New Deal. We live in one of the most excepting and tolerant countries in the world. I hear that the same “end of the world” environmental fear pumping in the 1970’s. Fifty plus years after these dire warning the world just keeps spinning.
Patriot Will, all the revisionist social dogma spewed out of the mouths of all the leftist social engineers in the saddle at our universities will never feed a hungry belly. Thanks for reminding us how much we owe a profession so often at the mercy of natural forces beyond their control. These great Americans love the land, a love not conditioned by skin pigmentation.
We should set aside a day on our calendar to honor the farmers of America. No, make that 365 days on our calendar.
Carl Marx would be proud.
DemocRats are low IQ leftist racist scum.
The Biden administration is a disgrace! What they’re proposing here is divisive. What happened to being inclusive?
Yes, folks! Here is an example of another check box from the Demsheviks’ playbook: keep all the Deplorables completely and continuously distracted by multiple and incessant manufactured racial division issues while the Demsheviks rabidly and relentlessly pursue their ultimate nefarious objectives which is total and perpetual power as embodied in their version of dystopian socialism.
It’s interesting that Biden has always been a racist aligned closely with the late Sen.Robert Byrd of WV. So why is he doing this? For political purposes, of course. For votes. But he really has no concern for blacks except for how they vote, and gullible folks refuse to see Biden’s hypocrisy. Some of us older Americans remember another racist named Lyndon Johnson saying after he signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964 that he “would have the n—— voting democrat for 200 years”. Seems he was wrong about most things but right about that.
They are ALL poor AMERICAN FARMERS!! ALL GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS, LEGISLATION, FORMS FOR ALL AGENCIES SHOULD HAVE TWO BLOCKS TO CHOOSE FROM!!
(1) AMERICAN
(2) OTHER
FOLLOWED BY ENOUGH SPACE TO CLARIFY AN INDIVIDUALS STATUS, NO WHERE IN ANY APPLICATION OR FORM SHOULD ANY OTHER TERMS BE USED.
The hypocrisy of the Dems “race game” is reprehensible.
Am I alone in being fed up with the constant begging for money from organizations( judicial watch, nra, etc.) To investigate? Criminal activity of politicians and courts(including scotus) NEVER PUNISHING ANY OF THEM!
HOW MANY MORE DECADES WILL THESE ENDLESS “INVESTIGATIONS” CONTINUE WITHOUT ANY MEANINGFUL RESULTS?
THE BIGGEST MISTAKE THIS NATION EVER MADE WAS ALLOWING LAWYERS TO BECOME LAWMAKERS, EVERYTHING THEY DO BENIFITS AND PROTECTS CRIMINAL LAWYERS FROM GETTING THE JUSTICE THEY DESERVE.
IT IS LONG PAST TIME TO RETHINK OUR CHOICES FOR REPRESENTATIVES, WE NEED MORE REAL AMERICANS FROM DIVERSE GROUPS TO ACTUALLY REPRESENT ALL AMERICANS.
All good comments from ethical and moral people…unfortunately we are dealing with people whose agenda is devoid of any form of morality…as usual it is a power play to increase their voter base to remain in power. The answer? It is certainly not commenting because they don’t care what anybody thinks or says so maybe we should wake up and start using their own playbook tactics against them. They disregard the law and the constitutional guarantees that bred our society…I believe in equality…if this small government minority can do it then we can too. One suggestion would be to use voter Propositions in local, state and federal elections to block their actions nationwide. I am sure there are other methods too…or we can continue to talk and do nothing.
This was blocked by a federal judge because it’s unconstitutional.
Jim Crow thy name is Biden
They forgot to put the word “Black” in front of “American Rescue Plan Act of 2021”.
Damocrats (sp intended)are racist, corrupt, and communist. Biden is in addition to that, is a criminal and he is stupid; truly of very low intelligence.
Boy! Talk about pandering!!! I’m sure ALL farmers work hard regardless of skin color. This is a travesty. Farmers unite! They should refuse to pay taxes or something if they’re not being treated equally for the jobs they’re doing. This makes me NUTZ!
So nice to read that we have justices who actually know and apply the law!
The Liberal Progressive Socialist Democrat cares not a whit for ANYBODY! They only do racist crap like this to play whites off against blacks! They really don’t give a damn about “Americans”!
My GOD lets just start a war between the farmers. White or black shouldban together and head to Washington. Biden is truly an uneducated person. What person in thier right mind would have ever signed this bill. The good LORD is working right now. Say your prayers. Locust are coming to attack the wicked.
Just about everything Hidin’ Joe Biden as done so far in his term is shameful in some way or fashion. It become more obvious every day that too may people are running the Nation’s business behind the scenes and Hidin’ Joe Biden is performing as a political puppet for a wide range of idiot DemocRats, mostly. Biden is sidin’ with whoever is pulling his strings …. and he doesn’t always that right either.
This law seems to have been patterned on the Soviet Union’s concept of Kulaks.
How can this regime pass laws that enforce actions that they would prosecute an individual for initiating? Who allows this?
“…. One might think that the Biden administration seeks to promote racial unrest rather than equity.”
It’s far beyond “think”. There is nothing to ‘think’ about. It’s “KNOW”!
Criminals are running amok without penalty… they are being transported and deposited around the nation BY this administration & they will succeed in their mission to destroy every trace of freedom if they can keep the populace fighting against each other. It flings the door wide open for Marxist Marshal Law.
This is Obamanomics 101… There was little to no race issues in America until Barack Hussein Obama & Eric Holder entered the arena…The Democrat party has made race their main playing card ever since, those are the facts…
Does anyone miss Donald J. Trump yet? Every American got equal treatment under Trump & this partially explains why Trump overwhelmingly got the votes from black, Hispanics, Asians & whites in the 2020 elections & he received more votes than any presidential candidate in US history, that is until Joe Biden’s domestic & foreign organizations stole the election… That hand hasn’t been completely played out yet, stay tuned…
The black community & I’m not talking about the BLM/ANTIFA thugs on George Soro’s payroll here, but the hardworking, honest variety of people that have got ahead along with the rest of us by actually working for a living! Trump’s ” Opportunity Zones ” in many of the low income minority cities was a PROVEN game changer for so many, Trump permanently funded numerous black colleges with much appreciation shown for this act alone. How easy it is to forget. I can go on & on here on Trump’s accomplishments. :~)
The title of this article says it all: ” The Biden Regime. ” What a crying shame, this is NOT emblematic of what America is about… :~(
Bill on the Hill… :~)
The Great Unifier Bumbling Beijing Biden is just a puppet handled by the past RACIST American hating O-Bummer administration HACKS. He was SELECTED not ELECTED!
Equal means equal, any republicans that voted for this law should be voted out of office along with their democrat brothers/sisters !
“Finish the job”. That is what Obama said recently. He always speaks in generalities. What job?
Biden is incapacitated and is just a figurehead doing what Obama and Soros wants. Obama is mentally unstable. He grew up angry and is still living the 1960’s in his head. He wants to destroy the foundation of this country. Make it a Marxist country. Pitting one group against another. Divide the nation so we become hateful like him. This is his 3rd term.
I’m not sure but that sounds RADIST to me.????????
I still love this country ????????❤️????????❤️and makes me sick ????to see what the Dems are doing to it????????
All Farmers need help with debt not just the black this is so un-American and unfair to the white man prices will skyrocket.
This is total B.S. Racism is racism, and the government should not be doing this. Totally STINKS to high heaven.
Pure racism on Mr. BIDEN a complete corrupt politician. He was always a cheat and liar. He thinks, if he smiles everyone will like him and buy his BULL. And too many do!
Why did anyone vote for this anti American totalitarian loser he’s dividing us wanting us to turn on one another this is disgusting he has to be impeached that oath of office he took is meaningless to this China sympathizer!
You talk about being racist against white people