What? No Apology To Go Along With The Gift?

Government doing what it does best. Giving away our hard-earned income:

House clears Indian, black farmer settlements
Associated Press

Washington – The House on Tuesday passed landmark legislation to pay for some $4.6 billion in settlements with American Indians and black farmers who say they faced discrimination and mistreatment from the government. [link]

You might wonder why this required action on the part of the United States Congress and not by civil courts where these alleged cases of "discrimination and mistreatment" belonged.

Well, get to the bottom of the story and you'll learn that, in fact, the American Indians who say they were abused weren't (though maybe their distant ancestors had been a couple hundred years ago).  And that those black farmers - individually - really couldn't prove that they were in any way discriminated against (or they'd be in court right now) by the United States government either.  Their only argument had to do with statistical data relating to the dissemination of government farm loans.  And we all know about statistics ...

Oh, well.  At least they won't be back seeking more government welfare.

This year anyway.