Posted on 05/19/2009 3:26:34 AM PDT by Daisyjane69
TONALEA, Ariz. (AP) -- Talk at the community center in this small Navajo town isn't as focused on the economy as it is in many places off the reservation.
That's because the people living on the largest American Indian reservation have been largely unscathed by the recession.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
Thanks.
Fits my awareness of this land and people around here.
Who are those who are better off? Those who take care of their own by honest means..most of our goverment is too corrupt to know the difference...
When I was there, I was struck by their peace. You couldn’t help but notice that this wasn’t a crowd caught up in a rat race. Yes, there is poverty, but these folks have a strong sense of self and family. But also an entrepreneurial spirit and amazing creativity. I came away impressed.
Actually, it reminded me of the lifetime I spent in Geauga County, Ohio...which is home to an enormous Amish community (before I moved to S. Utah). I saw many, if not all qualities I saw at the Taos Pueblo in the Amish community.
Both are very impressive, IMO.
First: this same article was posted yesterday.
Second, in your comment:
“When I was there, I was struck by their peace. You couldn’t help but notice that this wasn’t a crowd caught up in a rat race. Yes, there is poverty, but these folks have a strong sense of self and family. But also an entrepreneurial spirit and amazing creativity. I came away impressed.”
The government welfare system has DESTROYED these people, and anyone else it touches. Your comments are paternalistic and almost condescending. 50% unemployment is not noble, it is immoral and criminal.
“And with half of the Navajo Nation’s work force unemployed long before this latest recession hit, there’s not much fear the job situation could get much worse on the reservation”.
This article is brainless.
Their situation is just a snapshot of the country as whole a few more years into the Obamanation.
First off, I didn’t realize it was posted yesterday (I did look, but evidently I missed it) or I wouldn’t have posted it today.
With respect to your comments on the gov’t welfare system, you are preaching to the choir, here. I agree with you. That wasn’t the reason for my comment and I’ll address it in a moment.*
Back in my younger days, I was young and stupid. I saw no problem with all the liberal happy-programs, like welfare. Then in the course of some professional training, I was assigned to spend an entire summer doing my work in the inner city. I was a suburban gal and this was new to me; I was curious and a little nervous. Long story short (and if you want to know more, feel free to FReep mail me) I got an education on our gov’t “help.” Enough so that I convinced my previously left wing b/f Chicago teacher that welfare is simply treacherous.
*My remarks should not be construed as paternalistic and condescending. These are people who truly impressed me. I never claimed to pity them. I admire what they have been able to hang on to (by way of their culture and history and industriousness) DESPITE the malevolent interference of the “nanny state” imposed upon them.
I hope that helps.
Thanks for posting that. I did not see it, and I will read the responses.
One thing I didn’t get a chance to ask, (and perhaps it will appear in the comments following the post) is this:
“What happened to the natural resources on these reservations?” I know what they did here in Utah, the Federal Gov’t claimed all of our vacant land, without any legal authority to do so, hence the “Sagebrush Rebellion.”
If they treated the native Americans as well as the citizens of Utah, their plight is no surprise to me.
Sadly....
Song, song of the south
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth
Gone, gone with the wind
There ain't nobody looking back again
Cotton on the roadside, cotton in the ditch
We all picked the cotton but we never got rich
Daddy was a veteran, a southern democrat
They oughta get a rich man to vote like that
Sing it...
Song, song of the south
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth
Gone, gone with the wind
There ain't nobody looking back again
Well somebody told us Wall Street fell
But we were so poor that we couldn't tell
Cotton was short and the weeds were tall
But Mr. Roosevelt's a gonna save us all
Thanks for your nice reply.
‘preciate it, as we say in the South.
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