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To: fish hawk

Equality means equality. No free school, you can pay like everyone else. I don’t care what your parents did, where they came from, what church they go to - on AMERICAN soil, you can be treated like everyone else.

Right now, we don’t have equality, we have ‘superiority’, at the taxpayer’s expense. Free college tuition, free trade school, free food, free clothing, free medical - and zero personal responsibility.

If the reservations want to be treated like foreign soil, fine. They can be their own isolated countries, they can build their own roads, generate their own power, pay for their own education; just like every other foreign country.

As-is; the Tribal Consul gets to cherry-pick what they want, to their advantage exclusively. If they want to be annexed by the State, then they can have taxpayer paid roads, utilities, fire, police and schools. If they want to remain seperate, then they can establish borders around their reservation - just like any other country would do.

Assimilate, or Separate - your choice. But I submit we remove the “Parasite” from the US taxpayer roles. Just because it’s been going on for years; does not make it right. Slavery, denying women the right to vote and other issues were going on for a long time - it doesn’t make it right.


33 posted on 03/14/2012 10:20:33 AM PDT by Hodar ( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
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To: Hodar
The base problem lies with the way things were done in those days. The Government crated reservations to contain the Indians, thereby removing the problem of having them roaming around. To get them to come in peaceably, they promised them a lot of the things you mention above. These promises were given to them in writing in “treaties”. My tribe was denied hunting and fishing rights on our own reservation for years until we took the government to court with our written treaties signed by the leaders of the country. So now, I can hunt and fish without any regard of the Calif. Dept. of Fish and Game. That does not mean I can do anything I want as the tribe has our own police/ wardens to make sure we go by the rules the tribe has set up.
41 posted on 03/14/2012 10:40:29 AM PDT by fish hawk (NAACP = Native Americans Against Corrupt Politicians)
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