Native Americans to Suffer Most From Drought

[longknife]

And where does this dire report come from? Al Jazeera America! Of course. And, it's coming in a three-part series @ Drought hits harder in already parched Indian Country | Al Jazeera America

Let's ignore the overall results of this national man-made disaster that will increase food prices and cause water restrictions all over the West. Oh yeah, I'm certain they will cover the horrible economic results to those poor Migrant Farm Workers – mostly Hispanics.

Just thought you'd like to know.

 

[Old Rocks]

Well, since we 'gave' the Native Americans the worst land, and kept the best for ourselves, yes, they are the first to feel drought. And when there are no crops to pick, the migrant agricultural worker, whether 'Okie' or Mexican, recieve no wages. And we all pay higher food prices.

But, hurrah, the obese junkie on the right wingnut radio says this is the way things oughta be. So all is well.

 

[ScienceRocks]

People that don't value education and critical thought do run into problems when something changes much faster.


Education is important as it allows our society to adapt and plan.

 

[elektra]

Last time I checked all the Indian Casinos are fine.

They even have a huge fountain during the worst drought in the hottest winter ever?

 

[ScienceRocks]

Last time I checked all the Indian Casinos are fine.

They even have a huge fountain during the worst drought in the hottest winter ever?

Those are the smart natives that use education and capitalism!

 

[flacaltenn]

Casino Indians have certainly adapted to changes, but at the price of leaving their
spirituality and contact with nature outside the door.

In GENERAL -- they are BETTER stewards of their lands than the same poor stuff that is managed by the BLM and Forestry right next door....

 

[ScienceRocks]

There's no god. Reality screams that you must be educated to the best of your abilities and accept capitalism or you're in trouble.

 

[flacaltenn]

There's no god. Reality screams that you must be educated to the best of your abilities and accept capitalism or you're in trouble.

Beyond the scope of this forum Matt -- but ---
There are no EDUCATED, GODLY Capitalists??? Is that the message?

 

[bripat9643]

Last time I checked all the Indian Casinos are fine.

They even have a huge fountain during the worst drought in the hottest winter ever?

Those are the smart natives that use education and capitalism!

Capitalism is where you get to run a business that is illegal for all your would-be competitors to run?

 

[ScienceRocks]

Last time I checked all the Indian Casinos are fine.

They even have a huge fountain during the worst drought in the hottest winter ever?

Those are the smart natives that use education and capitalism!

Capitalism is where you get to run a business that is illegal for all your would-be competitors to run?

if that's the only kind of capitalism the natives will use. Why not?

 

[Gracie]

Not all natives have a casino on their land, ya know.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Not all natives have a casino on their land, ya know.

How about starting one?
Maybe even starting a business? Or maybe going to work for a living...How about that???

 

[bripat9643]

Those are the smart natives that use education and capitalism!

Capitalism is where you get to run a business that is illegal for all your would-be competitors to run?

if that's the only kind of capitalism the natives will use. Why not?

That's called "crony capitalism." It's really fascism.

 

[bripat9643]

Not all natives have a casino on their land, ya know.

How about starting one?
Maybe even starting a business? Or maybe going to work for a living...How about that???

They can't because the land is communally owned and the tribe has to vote on any business someone might want to start.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Last time I checked all the Indian Casinos are fine.

They even have a huge fountain during the worst drought in the hottest winter ever?

Casinos benefit very few. You really think the Repub mindset of the wealthy stealing from the poor doesn't occur on reservations too? Just like whites, there are those who take from the ones who cannot fight back.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Not all natives have a casino on their land, ya know.

How about starting one?
Maybe even starting a business? Or maybe going to work for a living...How about that???

For whites, there are three people applying for every job.

Or NA's its 5 to one.

There are no jobs for them.

 

[Old Rocks]

When discussing Native American businesses or employment, consider that many of the reservations are very rural. No manufacturing, no major roads through the reservation to bring in business. For all too many , poor schools, or virtually no schools. In my lifetime, they had to have a pass to go off the reservation. Essentially, the reservations were concentration camps.

 

[elektra]

Last time I checked all the Indian Casinos are fine.

They even have a huge fountain during the worst drought in the hottest winter ever?

Casinos benefit very few. You really think the Repub mindset of the wealthy stealing from the poor doesn't occur on reservations too? Just like whites, there are those who take from the ones who cannot fight back.

Republicans?

This is Liberal Democrat controlled California which made and changed the rules and reguations to allow Liberal Democrat politicians to profit from Indians.

 

[Old Rocks]

Last time I checked all the Indian Casinos are fine.

They even have a huge fountain during the worst drought in the hottest winter ever?

Casinos benefit very few. You really think the Repub mindset of the wealthy stealing from the poor doesn't occur on reservations too? Just like whites, there are those who take from the ones who cannot fight back.

Republicans?

This is Liberal Democrat controlled California which made and changed the rules and reguations to allow Liberal Democrat politicians to profit from Indians.

Get off the partisan bullshit on this issue. Every goddamned administration since Jefferson and every state government has done this. There are simply too many entrenched interests running the leases and such on the reservations for any politician to fight them, no matter where his heart is at. There have been literally tens of billions of dollars stolen from the tribes with the full cooperaton of corperations and government. Money stolen from the poorest Americans, the very same group that has the highest percentage of veterans in their ranks.

The fact that the rest of us ignored this thievery is sad commentary on our collective conscience.

Billions Missing From U.S. Indian Trust Fund

In his testimony before Congress, John Echohawk, director of Native American Rights Fund, called it "yet another serious and continuing breach in a long history of dishonorable treatment of Indian tribes and individual Indians by the United States government."
Arizona Senator John McCain, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, bluntly called it "theft from Indian people."

These men were describing the single largest and longest-lasting financial scandal in history involving the federal government of the United States.

With no other recourse left at their disposal, NARF, along with other attorneys, filed a class action lawsuit in federal district court on June 10 on behalf of more than 300,000 American Indians. The suit charges Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, Assistant Interior Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs Ada Deer and Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin with illegal conduct in regard to the management of Indian money held in trust accounts and managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

If the lawsuit's claims are correct, and there's an overwhelming body of evidence that suggests they are, then the federal government has lost, misappropriated or, in some cases, stolen billions of dollars from some of its poorest citizens.

 

[elektra]

Casinos benefit very few. You really think the Repub mindset of the wealthy stealing from the poor doesn't occur on reservations too? Just like whites, there are those who take from the ones who cannot fight back.

Republicans?

This is Liberal Democrat controlled California which made and changed the rules and reguations to allow Liberal Democrat politicians to profit from Indians.

Get off the partisan bullshit on this issue. Every goddamned administration since Jefferson and every state government has done this. There are simply too many entrenched interests running the leases and such on the reservations for any politician to fight them, no matter where his heart is at. There have been literally tens of billions of dollars stolen from the tribes with the full cooperaton of corperations and government. Money stolen from the poorest Americans, the very same group that has the highest percentage of veterans in their ranks.

The fact that the rest of us ignored this thievery is sad commentary on our collective conscience.

Billions Missing From U.S. Indian Trust Fund

In his testimony before Congress, John Echohawk, director of Native American Rights Fund, called it "yet another serious and continuing breach in a long history of dishonorable treatment of Indian tribes and individual Indians by the United States government."
Arizona Senator John McCain, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, bluntly called it "theft from Indian people."

These men were describing the single largest and longest-lasting financial scandal in history involving the federal government of the United States.

With no other recourse left at their disposal, NARF, along with other attorneys, filed a class action lawsuit in federal district court on June 10 on behalf of more than 300,000 American Indians. The suit charges Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, Assistant Interior Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs Ada Deer and Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin with illegal conduct in regard to the management of Indian money held in trust accounts and managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

If the lawsuit's claims are correct, and there's an overwhelming body of evidence that suggests they are, then the federal government has lost, misappropriated or, in some cases, stolen billions of dollars from some of its poorest citizens.

Me, get off the Partisan bullshit?

I guess reading is not Old Crock's forte.

Luddly Neddite stated that Republicans, why would not Old Crock thus tell Luddly Neddite to know off the partisan politics? Oh, Cause Luddly Neddite is on that the Partisan Hack Old Crock has "thanked" a thousand times.

For Old Crock, not one comment can be left alone, anything from any perceived Republican must be answered with ridicule or vile insults, even if such a comment shows Old Crock as dim-witted partisan hack.

Yes, the only people allowed to be Partisan is the Leftist. Imagine if Old Crock had complete power, such as Stalin in the Communist USSR or Hitler in the Socialist Germany.

Jefferson built Indian Casinos?