Remembering Native Americans!

How many of us can actually say, "We are American Indians?"  All my life I have heard how so many other people have had it bad in the course of our history, but I can honestly tell you, Native Americans have had it worse and still do.  Those tribes that don't have casinos on their Reservations have rough, hard times.  They fight for their old ways, yet, we [Americans] keep taking it from them.  Just like in the old days of the Wild West. 
You would think that people would get it through their heads not to take what isn't theirs, but they still do.  They forget about promises made long ago to a brave nation of Indians and keep doing it today. 
Since They [Native American Indians] withstood everything dished out from the numerous wars, illnesses, movement from settlement to settlement, we now ignore them and give them 3rd world living arrangements.
I, myself, am ashamed of the way they have been treated from the past and the way they are still treated now. 
I'm not a full-blooded Indian, but I had ancestors who were.  I don't see how we can possibly sit back and just watch them starve to death and just shrug it off and go about our daily lives.  To me that's cruel and unusual punishment!!! 
I wonder how fast things would change if we could turn things around?  Let those in power live 1 full year out there and those in poverty on the reservations be in the positions of power.  I wonder if they'll start to see things differently then?  Oh, I bet they would!
Without their  money, servants, homes, jobs, healthy food, transportation, power.  I bet they wouldn't even last a week out there...maybe even a full 24 hours.
And Native Americans have been living like that for 100's of years.  All the more to Native Americans!
I'll help the best way I can.  How about any of the rest of you?  Do I have any takers?
If we don't do something quick we may lose a wonder group of Americans who make our Country Unique and Fresh.  I don't want that to happen.

A Lil' Venting Here and There is Good for the Soul!

Have you ever noticed how depression can come out of the blue and knock you for a loop? Well, I have. It's got to be our economy. Jobs are few and between and people are starting to get a lil' desperate about paying their bills.
Thinking of this also makes you ponder about the elections coming up in Nov. 2010. Can our smooth-talking officials actually do what they say they are going to do, or will they tank just like all the rest???
This is the question we all ponder as we take that long march in to vote at our registered locations.
Then again, if you don't vote, you have no place to grumble and complain when things aren't going like they should. But we all hear from them every year.
Also, you turn on the evening news and what do you see...? Employees from car dealerships drinking and smoking pot on their lunch breaks. I don't know about y' all but that infuriates me. Obama allowed the dealerships to have a cut on their "paybacks" and they repay the American Tax payers by drinking and smoking pot on their lunch breaks.
What about those of us who have to work our butts off for everything we have and they just sit in fancy offices and do nothing and get paid the big bucks.
Our "leaders" are killing the "little" people so the big people can get bigger. That isn't fair. But who on earth said life was fair, right?

Attention Americans!

Ladies and gentlemen,
I have heard [read] the most disstressing news. How come our leaders never follow thru with what they say during election year? We vote them in and then boom! Reality check, it's nothing like they said it was going to be.
For those of us who happen to live in North Carolina, our "wonderful" leaders have decided that our childrens education isn't important. That the money [we, the people put in for lottery tickets] will be better used in the place of taxes. I know our country is in debt, but please, lets not forget our children and their future! I mean, I don't have children yet but what of those who do? Now, because of the economic difficulties, they aren't going to get the best education because our state can't afford to pay for it. What is going to happen to them then???? - They'll go from selling drugs to expressing worse criminality traits and there will be no one to blame but our own state! Our own elected officials.
This worries me. I think we all should impeach the leaders we elected and start fresh and new with "new blood" in the offices. How do you all feel? However, I know this isn't a possiblity, but it's how I feel. I don't know if we are going to be able to continue with two more years of this.
Then again, our country is so far gone in some aspects there might not be anything new elected officials could do to bring us back in the positive. I, personally, hope and pray not but I'm worried about how things are going to turn out in 2012. Right now, they aren't looking so good to me.
What do you all think of our chances of turning our country around for the positive if we wait and watch and see what happens?

Coming Up To Speed

Well, hiya everybody! How are things out in internet space? My part of the space has been bland. Since I have graduated I have been searching for employment and that takes up a lot of time and then only to be told no one is hiring is such a blow to the ego sometimes. Our economy sucks! Everyone says, "[w]e're headed for another Depression." I don't know about y'all, but I don't want another Depression. People are struggling now as it is, I'd hate to see it get that worse.

I heard today about our 1st responders becoming ill because of 9/11. I never would have thought that they would be in that kind of danger trying to help those people in the World Trade Center in NYC. Some are finding they have attracted some kind of blood cancer now. 9 years after it happened and now they have to live through this too. I feel for them.

And now on the news in my home state...Florida! I hear there is a preacher that wants to burn the Muslim book...Q'uran [how do you spell that?] The "President" says that could put our Military men and women in danger. I'm not for that! To me it's childish, and I have family and friends over seas fighting in this War. I wouldn't want things over there to worsen because someone wants to burn a book of religion of those who we happen to be at War with in the first place. I, myself, wouldn't sink down to their level.

But on the other hand, we have people in this country burning the American Flag and disrespecting our religion and beliefs and they happen to be Muslim and living in this country. To me, if you don't like where you live and disrepect where you live you should get the hell out. Don't be on t.v. burning the country's flag and saying hateful things about the country and expect people in that country to think nice things about you, where you come from, or the religion you practice. It just doesn't work that way.

To get respect you must give respect. It's no longer something you get "just because". Those days are now over. At least down here anyway.

With all that said, we must learn to respect each other or no one will have the "Peace" we all say we want.