Posted on 07/16/2009 10:02:55 AM PDT by NJ_Tom
If you’re a young Lakota woman with a big heart, an even bigger smile, but an immune system compromised to its brink by lupus—you know who the enemy is. If you’re a tribal chairman receiving a phone call in the middle of the night that another one of your tribal members has taken their own life—you know who the enemy is....
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Shouldn't we demand that they get this one right before we let take on any more responsibilities in this area?
Exactly right!!!
Look what the government is doing to the VA and Military Retiree health care programs. Apparently their motto is: "Promise everything, deliver as little as possible".
Disturbing. Government is so inept, dangerously so. Government-run anything is like the Keystone Cops, but with very bad consequences.
And the elderly will be the first to be denied life-saving treatment under Obamacare:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2nXANNqFnA
Rush brought up that very point yesterday about reservation health care. I don’t know why this issue has never been brought up. I did a lot growing up in Four Corners area and from a young age I learned who was in charge of their slaves, the Federal Government.
Yes, this and the VA and Medicare should be fixed before they do anything else.
Write/call/email your family and friends to burn up those fax & phone lines to their congresscritters to NOT EVEN CONSIDER passage of this or any other Obamacare initiatives. Also might consider telling them not to even think of passing a bill until they have read it and understand it's repercussions.
Might also want to throw in that they should be willing to have the same type of healthcare they are forcing on us - that should kill it immediately
The Indian’s greatest enemy is tribalism. It prevents them from becoming fully American. Drop the government programs, end the farce of tribal “sovereignty,” and integrate them into society already. They can still hold onto heritage and tradition with out pretending to an actual separate nation. Early immigrants did it, so can they.
I’ve had three friends tell me this photo was not to their liking and one asked me what Jesus would do.
I told her He’d laugh at this one like He laughed at all the Bush ones.
Whadda you say?
Irreverent and funny. Funny wins out.
And the elderly will be the first to be denied life-saving treatment under Obamacare:”
Even more so because we tend to vote Republican the older we get and wise. We don’t have to be “Latina” to be wise, either!!
They have lost everything they started with a 100 years back, some would say had it stolen off them. Their future ain't bright either, massive social probs with alcohol being a crutch for their pains over what has occurred to their people; most just want left alone to go extinct. Almost like govt sponsered genocide actually.
Canada does a better job bringing their Indians up to speed than USA. They do the carott & stick to develop work ethic & what we call good citizenship traits; it works for some too. In USA, money is just thrown at the problem with no positive results, real shame as Indians are pretty decent bunch once you get to know them and not judge them like White people.
In Alaska, the Native health care is top notch, no joke. Since it's free their health is realtively good after years of hard livin lifestyles. If they didn't have govt health care, they'd never go to a doctor anyway. I guess that gives you an idea what govt health care could become??????
AGREED.
Another example: veterans affairs. That’s what we want? WHY?
As everyone else is saying, just look to the VA, and the way they screw those who fight for us as a perfect example of government run health-care. But, my biggest question—and which is the question that none of these so called reporters ask is—why is just because it is government run does it mean that it is going to be any better?
“why is just because it is government run does it mean that it is going to be any better?”
Because...uh...profits are evil.
They are not an easy people to befriend as they distrust outsiders (guess why), but, once you make a friendship with them, they will give you their last ear of corn. I've lived with them all my life (as I is one).
Here's the rub: that same government is now bringing us ALL under servitude under a tyrant named Liberalism.
I don't see the Athabaskan's accepting our values and world view; they see it as screwed up.
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