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I hate to bring back a thread from the dead, but I wanted to chip in my two cents and see this debate come back to life...
One of my very good friends from high school was a Native American and because he lived on the reservation he was given a portion of the profits from a nearby casino. His tribe is located in Minnesota and it is relatively small, the casino that they run is huge, as well as highly profitable. Since he turned 18, he has gotten weekly checks for many thousands of dollars a piece - he has so much money he doesn't even know what to do with it.
He spends his days sleeping and his nights partying - the money being used to purchase alchohol and other materials that he ends up snorting.
The whole situation pisses me off because he basically makes just under $300,000.00 a year for sitting on his ass because of his blood - while others are working their asses off and still struggling.
The reason I bring this up is because I don't believe that we should still allow native americans to have all these special rules that help them out ridiculously. Don't get me wrong - America has done many terrible things to a great number of people(s) - but paying for it for the rest of forever is ridiculous. Same goes for slavery. It was terrible, it happened, it's done. I think that monetary subsidation is a fraction of what should be given to those that acutally survived it, but someone should not be rewarded because their great great grandfather was a slave.
War and conquering land typically involve terrible things - but it happened os long ago it shouldn't have any real effect on what happens now to those related to those who were mistreated...
You don't see Rome paying out to countries because they had conquered them...
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