Tribes say persistent efforts pay off in massive stimulus

Sacramento Bee ^ | MARCH 28, 2020 | FELICIA FONSECA

[artichokegrower]

The sweeping bill that President Donald Trump signed will help better equip health care systems that serve Native Americans, improve the emergency response time on tribal lands, provide economic relief for tribal members, and help with food deliveries to low-income families and the elderly.

[artichokegrower]

While the $10 billion for tribes in the $2.2 trillion package is less than they requested, tribes say it represents progress.

This whole concept of Indian reservations being sovereign nations to totally out of date in toady's world. They are sovereign when they want casinos but part of the USA when they want $10 billion.

[nevermorelenore]

Agree

[Secret Agent Man]

If they are sovereign we should give them zero.

[Jim W N]

So says the Lying Media to the unwary, uninformed, and gullible.

Like Socialism itself, Keynesian economics (”government spending ‘stimulates’ the economy”) has long since been debunked, but like socialism keeps getting dug up and walks around like the walking dead.

Don’t you notice almost no opposition from the Left on this??? That should tell you a lot right there. The Left LOVES the walking dead. They are all about death.

We DON’T need more government (”stimulus spending”). We need MUCH LESS government.TAX CUTS and CUTS IN GOVERNMENT SIZE.

Then you’ll have the fight of your life from the Left because THAT will truly launch the economy into the stratosphere and strengthen America economically — exactly what the Left doesn’t want becsue the Left hates America.

This is a very sad thing here. Political expediency at the cost of true recovery. And Trump participating in it. Very sad.

How do we recover form this stupidity? Only one way.

CUT TAXES AND CUT GOVERNMENT!

THAT is where the battle is but it is the good fight of faith and freedom.

[Liberal Anti Venom]

Hammer meets nail. Well said.

[Brian Griffin]

Raising taxes, not cutting them, is the correct way. If a 50% surtax was levied by the bill, it would have been the last of its kind.

The Trump Relief Act will hand out about $23,000 in “free” money per voter.

Spend your money before it becomes cheap wallpaper.

[Brian Griffin]

New native saying: Open hand gets filled.

[Jim W N]

Raising taxes, not cutting them, is the POLITICALLY correct way...and America goes down the drain.

I hope you’re not serious.

Taking even more money from individuals and giving it to the already bloated 80%+ unconstitutional $ 4 trillion totalitarian federal government would be committing suicide.

[PIF]

This whole concept of Indian reservations being sovereign nations to totally out of date in toady’s world. They are sovereign when they want casinos but part of the USA when they want $10 billion.

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We have Tricky Dicky to thank - he challenged aboriginal rights in AK and lost, creating the tribal corporate system there, leading to challenges in Washington State which lead to the Sovereign Tribes concept, giving their tribal enterprise tax-exempt status a boost and like magic the tribal casinos were born. Not only that, but Treaty Tribes have Special Master status in many areas, placing them above all the rest of us - regardless of all other factors; in short, the Treaty Tribes have Rights enshrined in the US Constitution while everyone else has privileges (all the Amendments) that can be revoked at any given time.

[bgill]

They wouldn’t be in a bind if they became part of the US. Of course, they’d rather sit on their butts and have US currency rain down on them.

[bert]

-——Out of date-——

The relations and land are governed by treaties.

People like you have always whined about the lands reserved for the Tribes. The treaties were repeatedly broken and revised to accommodate the greed of land developers and whiners like you