Great White Father print-um heap much wampum ... give-um Red
Brother with High Cheek Bones ... make-um Granny Squaw big happy!
Posted on 06/19/2012 10:31:50 AM PDT by ColdOne
The Supreme Court has ruled that the government must fully reimburse Native American tribes for millions of dollars they spent on federal programs.
The federal government had agreed to fully reimburse money tribes spent on programs like law enforcement, environmental protection and agricultural assistance, but Congress capped the amount of money earmarked for that reimbursement. The tribes sued, and the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver said the money must be fully reimbursed.
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The tribes sued, and the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver said the money must be fully reimbursed.
Sure!...What the hell?...It’s only taxpayer money!
African-Americans sued, and the Supreme Court said the money must be fully reimbursed.
White men spoke with forked tongue. So Indian tribes forked white men right back at SCOTUS.
If the feds were actually following Const. Art 1, Sect 8, the reimbursals, if any, would be limited to what the govt was doing, which would be limited. Just another consequence of the living and breathing constitution, unmoored from its foundings.
Great White Father print-um heap much wampum ... give-um Red
Brother with High Cheek Bones ... make-um Granny Squaw big happy!
Seems to me they were owed. Wouldn’t be the first time the government reneged on an agreement with the natives..
“Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote the majority opinion for Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Elena Kagan. Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Samuel Alito dissented.”
Looks like Thomas was the swing vote on this one.
Maybe the next case will be for the eviction
of all the hyphenated Americans?
Maybe the next case will be for the eviction
of all the hyphenated Americans?
These tribes operate like little turd-world countries. They squirrel and squander federal money, can’t find where all of it went, claim “it got lost”, then they beg, wheedle, whine and sue for more.
Seems to me we have a majority of the court on our side when it comes to rebating the $6 trillion debt Congress piled up taking Social Security money and peeing it away in measurements of cow flatulance (and such things).
Now that would happen if and only if somebody decided to shut down Social Security, but there you have it.
This situation is one where the federales said they'd reimburse the tribes and then didn't.
Theft is theft Migraine.
the taxpayers have been giving the Tribes millions upon millions for many, many years. They should all be multimillionaires living in palaces by now.
Wow, that is a strange breakdown! 2 Libs 2 Conservatives 1 Moderate in the majority and 2 Libs 2 Conservatives in the minority. You don't see that very often!
More money for casinos.
the tribes will be sympathetic because Congress actually passed a law which interferred in commerce (their livelihood) (remember: Congress shall pass no law which interferes ... )
Shut down the BIA or rename it The Bureau of Chinese Affairs....
Driving past the sign on I-90 south of Buffalo, NY you pass a sign stating you’re entering the Seneca Nation (or whatever tribe it is). You’re somehow leaving the USA and State of NY as you pass the sign.
So... Perhaps we should treat it as a foreign country. Provide ZERO aid. NO votes in the US elections. Go through immigration/customs when passing the borders. Maybe require a passport.
I could care less. I don’t by cigarettes or hit up the Casinos.
“So Indian tribes forked white men right back at SCOTUS.”
SCOTUS ruling = big medicine!
That is some mixture of justices on both sides.
“Wow, that is a strange breakdown! 2 Libs 2 Conservatives 1 Moderate in the majority and 2 Libs 2 Conservatives in the minority. You don’t see that very often!”
The real mystery is Alito’s vote
Why are we giving them any money anymore? They always claim sovereign nation status on their reservation land. Besides they make oodles of money on their casinos.
FED-GUV INC lies to everyone. they must think they’re special.
LOL.
Personally, there is no way I would want to be OWED money by the US Government.
15 trillion and counting; 1 million deeper every minute, of every day......
“Why are we giving them any money anymore?”
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Because like the rest of once magnificent Western Culture, we are morally weak, brainwashed into guilt by ignorant destructive Commies, and in our rudderless confusion, hate ourselves.
We gave them casinos and tax free tobacco, what else do they want?
Gee I dunno, maybe for the gummint to do what it said it would do? I know, damned unreasonable of those savages foolish enough to believe the gummint's word, but, well, you asked...
My ancestors let the US government lease some land from them a couple hundred years ago. To this day, I haven’t seen a dime nor have the deed. I’m not whining about it. This is much like slave reparations. Name one person alive today who was ever a slave... or their parents or grandparents.
Pig ford I & II. Already been done.
They hide it pretty well save for the casinos. The graft goes off reservation our out of the area. The powers dribble enough trinkets off the edge of the tables to keep the natives quiet. An indian health clinic here an indian house there, a little road improvement etc. Just enough to keep it looking good.
In that Clarence Thomas voted to sustain this ruling, you are probably right on this one.
However, as a generalization, the tribal financial fiascos in this country are legendary. It amounts to a black hole where money goes and never sees the light of day.
I don’t want to get into treaty violations and other shenanigans from the past. It seems to me the reservations should have been divided up among tribal members 50 years ago, sold off, and allowed to become private property. The rezzes are just like little Gaza’s.
From my local paper (The White Mountain Independent) just today, case in point.
Investigator: Tribe’s housing authority rife with corruption
Story
Posted: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 5:00 am | Updated: 7:23 am, Tue Jun 19, 2012.
David Roberts - The Independent
“The amount of money taken from the White Mountain Apache Tribe was well over a half million dollars,” said Investigator William Rucker. “When you talk about prosecuting … you’re talking about $750,000 when it’s all over.”
Rucker was discussing his investigation and upcoming fraud and/or embezzlement prosecutions of five or six people recently associated with the White Mountain Apache Housing Authority.
“The housing authority is here to help tribal members provide shelter for their families.
“It takes years on the waiting list. Now because of this many children will go without homes … maybe thousands!”
Rucker was outraged at the crimes he believes he has unearthed at the authority.
Similar story is a recurrent theme 4-5 times per year, going back as long as I can remember.
I have no use for the BIA or the Interior Dept, either. But Indian reservations suck.
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