In a sane world, Native American Indians should be wealthy beyond imagination..................
I agree. Any one who is all for socialism needs to visit an Indian reservation.
Why the American Indian has squandered away the opportunity the govt had given them is astounding.
The capitalist wild card they were handed got tossed under the table.
No federal law against booze, cigarettes, gambling, health care, you name it. Everything that the U.S. and its states tax and over charge you for or make illegal could be made into a luxury escape rejuvinatory paradise for the willing person with disposable cash.
Instead they settle for 30 beads a month from their slave masters and eternal poverty.
How and why?
I heard, from the lips of a Tribal chief, the following direct quote:
“Biggest mistake the Red Man made was taking a penny of the White Man’s money. That’s what broke our spirit, and why I have more people in drug rehab on this reservation than I do working at Tribal enterprises.
Do not come in here and tell me if I build it here, it will bring jobs. I have jobs in my businesses that nobody will take because it is easier to live in their shitty homes and take a Tribal check.”
We could not believe our ears - and the chief was a big Obama guy, as they all are here in the People’s Soviet of Washington.
I once asked ANOTHER Tribal chief, “With all the money you generated with the casinos at various reservations in the 1990s, why didn’t you just form a Tribal Nations Bank, and fund your own development and tell the US banks to shove it? That way you don’t run into collateral problems that tie Tribal land up as a capital guarantee?”
“Because we don’t trust each other. There would be so much fraud, so fast, that it would fall over inside of five years and we’d be asking for a bailout. Not joking.”
In both of those cases, I was speechless. Both chiefs just looked at me gaping, laughed a little bit, and shook their heads.
Education in business you can’t get at Harvard.