The silver spoon is never having to worry about the things that 90% of the rest of the population has to, such as paying for lawyers, health benefits, schooling, underfunded schools, underfunded emergency services and other such *trivial* things (sarcasm there, hope you didn't miss it). I have worked on a reserve as an independent contractor, and the amount of waste is just astronomical. They get TOO MUCH, and are completely unable to self govern. Corruption is rampant, and the attitude of "the government" or "the white man" keeping them down is absolutely prevalent throughout their community.
This has to end, not by us honoring centuries old agreements made by some sovereign that really shouldn't have had a say in it anyhow.
They need to be reintegrated into our society, not as in a melting pot, but with their culture (or whats left of it) intact. I'd not condone "westernizing" them, but there has to be some point at which it's said, okay, yes, you've done this for hundreds of years, but unfortunately it just can't work in a relatively modern CIVILIZED society.
Those reserves you speak of as "holes" are just that, but realize that the amount of money that gets sent into those reserves could easily pay EVERY man woman and child there a VERY decent salary, and STILL have enough left over to run a small government. The problem is the corruption and waste, not the people.
To quote the above, the "do nothing and get everything" attitude that afflicts the Natives is born and bred on the reserves and brought about through a lifetime of having a silver spoon in their mouth. I am not racist. I am not against Natives. I do however have a problem with the current land claims they are proposing, as well as the terrorist antics that their Grand Chief has been condoning of late. At what point do we cut them off and say "Sorry, you've been paid back, thats enough, now get a real job and maintain your culture like everyone else, without the support of the government".
It really burns my ass to know that the 45% or so tax that comes off my cheque every week goes in a large majority directly to them, which they then turn around and use in a facetious manner like this lawsuit, or other such things. For a culture that has every advantage and is still in the "shitter" so to speak, maybe the problem is not a lack of money or resources or support, but rather too much.
being single, white, male and in my mid twenties, I can't even speak out, I have no recourse, and then hearing this, its absolutely NUTS.
I have had good luck using MicroOLAP Database Designer for MySQL. Granted its not opensource, but its super easy to use. One quirk that I haven't sorted out with it is proper quotation of 'enum' and 'set' fields in its generated SQL. But, that being said, its still a slick interface.
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The silver spoon is never having to worry about the things that 90% of the rest of the population has to, such as paying for lawyers, health benefits, schooling, underfunded schools, underfunded emergency services and other such *trivial* things (sarcasm there, hope you didn't miss it). I have worked on a reserve as an independent contractor, and the amount of waste is just astronomical. They get TOO MUCH, and are completely unable to self govern. Corruption is rampant, and the attitude of "the government" or "the white man" keeping them down is absolutely prevalent throughout their community.
This has to end, not by us honoring centuries old agreements made by some sovereign that really shouldn't have had a say in it anyhow.
They need to be reintegrated into our society, not as in a melting pot, but with their culture (or whats left of it) intact. I'd not condone "westernizing" them, but there has to be some point at which it's said, okay, yes, you've done this for hundreds of years, but unfortunately it just can't work in a relatively modern CIVILIZED society.
Those reserves you speak of as "holes" are just that, but realize that the amount of money that gets sent into those reserves could easily pay EVERY man woman and child there a VERY decent salary, and STILL have enough left over to run a small government. The problem is the corruption and waste, not the people.
To quote the above, the "do nothing and get everything" attitude that afflicts the Natives is born and bred on the reserves and brought about through a lifetime of having a silver spoon in their mouth. I am not racist. I am not against Natives. I do however have a problem with the current land claims they are proposing, as well as the terrorist antics that their Grand Chief has been condoning of late. At what point do we cut them off and say "Sorry, you've been paid back, thats enough, now get a real job and maintain your culture like everyone else, without the support of the government".
It really burns my ass to know that the 45% or so tax that comes off my cheque every week goes in a large majority directly to them, which they then turn around and use in a facetious manner like this lawsuit, or other such things. For a culture that has every advantage and is still in the "shitter" so to speak, maybe the problem is not a lack of money or resources or support, but rather too much.
being single, white, male and in my mid twenties, I can't even speak out, I have no recourse, and then hearing this, its absolutely NUTS.
I have had good luck using MicroOLAP Database Designer for MySQL. Granted its not opensource, but its super easy to use. One quirk that I haven't sorted out with it is proper quotation of 'enum' and 'set' fields in its generated SQL. But, that being said, its still a slick interface.