Originally Posted by
dufas
Any person who thinks they can be happy and prosperous by letting the American Government take care of him/her better take a closer look at the American Indian...
In case anyone might be interested in the opinion of an actual American Indian on this subject, allow me to expound my point of view.
PHS (the medical care the govt. "gives" the Indian) is second only to VA on the horrid list. You would be better off going to any veterinarian clenic.
BIA "gives" reservation Indians a subsistence somewhere below welfare, but they must live on the reservation.
Granted that some improvement has been made in recent years but many are still living in mud huts called hogans.
Can anyone say "trapped in a life style where the only escape is alcoholism"?
My grandparents were residents of the state of Texas and so were "given" 100 acres of land rather than being sent to a reservation. A few short years later the state foreclosed on their land for nonpayment of property taxes. (The land was located in what is today downtown Dallas)
They then learned how to work for money ( a foreign concept to an Indian) and lifted themselves out of poverty.
To all white Americans, "Welcome to the reservation, you will really love Obamacare!"
“ In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” Thomas Jefferson