This is true but have you ever been to a reservation? I visited a few never for more than a day. One was in the middle of the woods, very natural and lovely scenery but no business or industry to sustain life. Completely and totally dependent on tax money, i.e., welfare. The others were not as remote but similar in lack of business initiative.
Why must I as a tax payer support a healthy, able bodied person?
Guilt and welfare are not the problems or the solutions.
I upvoted your first comment because I misunderstood what you were saying.
Yes, in Michigan. Obviously, there are exceptions.
The situation with Native Americans is similar to the situation with other minorities, particularly in urban areas. It's why brilliant thinkers like Thomas Sowell condemned affirmative action and race-based preferences as he recognized that these practices are counter-productive.
They do not promote upward advancement but rather only serve to perpetuate dependence on the government for support. William F. Buckley, Jr. once said, “There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.”
Controlling minorities through dependence on the government is an industry just like abortion and the prison system.
The reservation system is slow-motion extinction and a reflection of a centuries-old lack of political will to do one of two things:
1) Make designated Indian territories fully sovereign nations with the powers (and responsibilities) to figure out their own shit.
2) Make those with tribal claims to Indian territories and identity regular American citizens with no positive or negative special status, designate their land privately owned that they can do whatever they want with under law like everyone else, and finally end their status as existing in a limbo-state of half-assimilated descendants of conquered people.
My understanding is that since the reservations operate outside of American jurisdiction on lots of matters, the people suffer under corruption from their leaders.
Yes. While there are certainly good ones, tribal councils have basically no oversight and are the first stop of all cash going into or out of the reservation ecosystem.
Read up on "tribal roll purges" for a typical example of how this corruption usually works.
I understand that reservations are operated by socialism. Socialism breeds poverty. With very few exceptions, no one on a reservation has control over their lives or property.
This is true but have you ever been to a reservation? I visited a few never for more than a day. One was in the middle of the woods, very natural and lovely scenery but no business or industry to sustain life. Completely and totally dependent on tax money, i.e., welfare. The others were not as remote but similar in lack of business initiative.
Why must I as a tax payer support a healthy, able bodied person?
Guilt and welfare are not the problems or the solutions.
I upvoted your first comment because I misunderstood what you were saying.
Yes, in Michigan. Obviously, there are exceptions.
The situation with Native Americans is similar to the situation with other minorities, particularly in urban areas. It's why brilliant thinkers like Thomas Sowell condemned affirmative action and race-based preferences as he recognized that these practices are counter-productive.
They do not promote upward advancement but rather only serve to perpetuate dependence on the government for support. William F. Buckley, Jr. once said, “There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.”
Controlling minorities through dependence on the government is an industry just like abortion and the prison system.
The reservation system is slow-motion extinction and a reflection of a centuries-old lack of political will to do one of two things:
1) Make designated Indian territories fully sovereign nations with the powers (and responsibilities) to figure out their own shit.
2) Make those with tribal claims to Indian territories and identity regular American citizens with no positive or negative special status, designate their land privately owned that they can do whatever they want with under law like everyone else, and finally end their status as existing in a limbo-state of half-assimilated descendants of conquered people.
My understanding is that since the reservations operate outside of American jurisdiction on lots of matters, the people suffer under corruption from their leaders.
Sounds like unions.
Yes. While there are certainly good ones, tribal councils have basically no oversight and are the first stop of all cash going into or out of the reservation ecosystem.
Read up on "tribal roll purges" for a typical example of how this corruption usually works.
I understand that reservations are operated by socialism. Socialism breeds poverty. With very few exceptions, no one on a reservation has control over their lives or property.