As you all may or may not have heard our beloved pres is touring impoverished areas of the country. On Wed. he was at the Pine Ridge Reservation in S. Dakota. This has got to be about the worst place to live in the entire U.S. Lots of bad things happening there, extreme poverty, unemployment, alcoholism, etc. Last month a severe storm wiped out a bunch of the shacks they call home. Two weeks ago there was a small riot in Whiteclay, Neb (2 miles from the rez), and another demonstration last weekend led mainly by Some of the more famous AIM leaders from the 70's, protestesting a couple of unsolved murders, and that the people of Whiteclay (pop. 25) are selling alcohol (4 million cans a year) to the Sioux from the rez. The Sioux claim that they actually should own the land that the town is on, based on two treaties dating back to the 1860's. Anyway Clinton tours the area, and is appropiately appalled at the living conditions. He makes a bunch of promises for economic development, water projects, and housing. Fine and dandy.
My questions are, would you want to be involved in a housing development with this guy? These Native Americans feel they have been lied to, cheated, and just plain screwd before, how are they going to feel after Slick Willie is through with them? With all the promises he made about the only thing he didn't do is smoke a peace pipe with them, but even if he did it wouldn't have counted because we all know he doesn't inhale.
bergie
My questions are, would you want to be involved in a housing development with this guy? These Native Americans feel they have been lied to, cheated, and just plain screwd before, how are they going to feel after Slick Willie is through with them? With all the promises he made about the only thing he didn't do is smoke a peace pipe with them, but even if he did it wouldn't have counted because we all know he doesn't inhale.
bergie