Posted on 04/26/2013 3:14:02 AM PDT by lowbridge
Imagine a country that has a corrupt authoritarian government. In that country no one knows about checks and balances or an independent court system. Private property is not recognized in that country either. Neither can one buy or sell land. And businesses are reluctant to bring investments into this country. Those who have jobs usually work for the public sector. Those who don’t have jobs subsist on entitlements that provide basic food. At the same time, this country sports a free health care system and free access to education. Can you guess what country it is? It could be the former Soviet Union, Cuba, or any other socialist country of the past.
Yet, I want to assure you that such a country exists right here in the United States. And its name is Indian Country. Indian Country is a generic metaphor that writers and scholars use to refer to the archipelago of 310 Native American reservations, which occupy 2 percent of the U.S. soil. Scattered all over the United States, these sheltered land enclaves are held in trust by the federal government. So legally, many of these land enclaves are a federal property. So there you cannot freely buy and sell land or use it as collateral. On top of this, since the Indian tribes are wards of the federal government, one cannot sue them for breach of contract. Indian reservations are communally used by Indian groups and subsidized by the BIA (the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior) with a current annual budget of about $3 billion dollars. Besides being a major financial resource that sustains the reservation system, BIA’s goal is also to safeguard indigenous communities, or, in other words, to make sure that they would never fail when dealing with the “outside” society.
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But promised and guaranteed by the U.S. government in their treaties, which can’t legally be abrogated without mutual consent.
still totally unConstitutional, huge contradiction
Here's a good test of that 'sovereignty': Can you manufacture a full-auto machine gun there?
Trivia time.
Question: How many U.S. government agencies or departments are taking care of American Indians [aka Native Americans] on their reservations besides the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)?
Answer: Sixteen, in addition to the BIA (for a total of 17).
If there was ever a case of blatant waste, fraud, and abuse, it exists here. The U.S. government would save a lot of money though combining programs, eliminating duplication, and trimming the fat from this mess. But, we couldn’t do THAT could we? Nope. Doing anything this logical completely befuddles the morons that populate Washington, DC.
No, it's not...
Article I, Section 8, Clause 3
"[The Congress shall have Power] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes."
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