[finch1750]

Originally Posted by Ashikabi

Isn't the existence of the reservations and "government aid" racist and silly to start with? Why should they get paid because their skin is a different color? Get real jobs and make real businesses just like everyone else. Relying on a check every month from the feds is only enabling them to be justified in being unemployed. My gf's grandpa was half Indian. He could have gotten benefits but he didn't want anything for free. So he became mayor of a little town in Iowa where the yearly salary was a couple grand and the city had one employee, him. He plowed the roads, he fixed the maintainer, etc. Was he rich? No but he didn't sit around drinking up his "benefits" check. I doubt there is anyone alive today who ever had anything "taken" by the white man. The blacks assimilated into society, so can the natives.

Yes Tcoat I know some would consider this politics. If Ichi so chooses he can delete it and I won't feel bad(not that he cares)

Yeah, I'll leave it alone. This is getting too political and will only get more so from here