The Pigford Scandal — Pigs Feeding at the Taxpayers’ Trough (Open Thread)

© Miri WTPOTUS May 1, 2013

Today is national Everybody Blog about Pigford Day, so WTPOTUS will do its part.  Although we have known about and griped about this scandal for several years, unfortunately most of our fellow citizens, who are on the hook for the payments to these fake farmers, are kept in the dark, deliberately, by the lamestream media.  That held true–at least until, inexplicably, the New York Times finally ran an in-depth story about the scandal, which involved compensating black “farmers” for alleged discrimination by the US Dept. of Agriculture. [emphasis added to quotes]

Of Waivers and Waste. It’s the Economy, Stupid! (Open Thread)

© Miri WTPOTUS October 20, 2012

Here are two related stories. Both involve the waste of U.S. taxpayer money.  One story involves assisted waste; the other involves simple incompetence on the part of government.

Some News of the Day (Open Thread)

 

© Miri WTPOTUS July 19, 2012

Is the Bulgarian government now justified to send drones to attack U.S. citizens (and non-citizens) in Michigan?  Thank goodness we won’t find out, because they don’t have drones. Yet.