As I understand it, from Indian friends, when kids come of age, they are given checks for $35,000 by the gubmint. They buy big trucks and drugs. And live miserable stupid addicted lives thereafter.
Many people have suggested they get vouchers for some kind of higher learning or job training instead of checks, but cannot get that past the tribal councils...the bigwigs, or big feathers, if you will, profit greatly from keeping the lower-class Indians drunk and stupid. Meanwhile, casinos are ALWAYS approved and haul in at least a million per day. How much of that goes to lower-class Indians? Very little if any. Some tribes at least build addiction treatment centers, but few bother.
I got this info from a part-Indian friend whose ex wife, a purebred Indian, is a college professor and on the board of directors of the local casino. She benefits greatly from the system.
“.... when kids come of age, they are given checks for $35,000 by the gubmint. They buy big trucks and drugs. And live miserable stupid addicted lives thereafter. ....”
Does anybody think the result will be any different when FedGov hands out “guaranteed income” checks?
“As I understand it, from Indian friends, when kids come of age, they are given checks for $35,000 by the gubmint. They buy big trucks and drugs. And live miserable stupid addicted lives thereafter.”
I knew an Indian from a northern California tribe. That’s exactly what happened to him; got lots of money, bought a truck, and went broke. He ended up joining the Air Force to get out of that place.