#2 2012-02-11 08:49:31
Next up, suing car makers for making cars that speed...
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#3 2012-02-11 10:53:47
...alleges the brewers are "engaged in a common enterprise focused on assisting and participating in the illegal importation of alcohol" onto the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
They might win this. They might even be justified.
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#4 2012-02-11 11:00:37
I'm just sick of that whole tribe, they can't drive, they destroy everything they come in contact with, they steal anything that isn't bolted down, only a handful of them work, they just do everything they can to make "wasichu's" life miserable. They live in the two poorest counties in the United States and they refuse to take any personal accountability for any of it. I used to feel sorry for them, now I just despise them because they refuse to do anything for themselves and just expect everyone else to just hand their paychecks over while they do nothing.
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#6 2012-02-11 11:16:06
You think that after years of getting grants to send a few to legal school, they won't come home and try to earn their keep?
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#7 2012-02-11 13:03:08
I know some about this very issue. A significant other was directly involved in the fallout from this. The issue is complex to fix when an entire populace is so low they will not get up in our lifetime. Say what you want about personnel responsibility, it is all has bearing. That town across the border, Whiteclay, has the highest per capita of multimillionaires in the state. Pretty much all of them are very, very wealthy as all are in the alcohol distribution business. I would say that combined, the family has upwards of 150 million is assets. Selling booze to drunk Indians who pay with welfare decade after decade is an extremely profitable business. Where is the responsibility in that?
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#8 2012-02-11 13:40:22
Johnny_Rotten wrote:
I know some about this very issue. A significant other was directly involved in the fallout from this. The issue is complex to fix when an entire populace is so low they will not get up in our lifetime. Say what you want about personnel responsibility, it is all has bearing. That town across the border, Whiteclay, has the highest per capita of multimillionaires in the state. Pretty much all of them are very, very wealthy as all are in the alcohol distribution business. I would say that combined, the family has upwards of 150 million is assets. Selling booze to drunk Indians who pay with welfare decade after decade is an extremely profitable business. Where is the responsibility in that?
This issue really isn't that complex, everyone is whining about these poor defenseless natives who just can't get a job or take care of themselves. The answer is always the same, make more laws, and give them more money, it never works, it just gets worse. Take away the govt. tit and let them find jobs and take care of themselves. They can drive up to Williston, ND and get a job paying $20.00 to $30.00 an hour as a laborer with no experience or education. There are around 20,000 more jobs in that region than there are people to fill them. Problem fucking solved.
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#9 2012-02-11 13:59:18
And you can't blame it on the alcohol problem either, I'm just as much an alcoholic as any native I meet on the street and I do okay for myself.
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#10 2012-02-11 16:25:22
The tribe is technically a sovereign nation. Almost all of the alcohol purchased in the White town outside the reservation is consumed by the Indians on the reservation. If the tribal leaders don’t want alcohol on the reservation, they need to institute strict border control to keep it out.
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#11 2012-02-11 16:57:54
fnord wrote:
The tribe is technically a sovereign nation. Almost all of the alcohol purchased in the White town outside the reservation is consumed by the Indians on the reservation. If the tribal leaders don’t want alcohol on the reservation, they need to institute strict border control to keep it out.
Quite a few of the Native villages in Alaska have done, essentially, that. They're dry and doggedly do their best to prevent alcohol from being brought in. It's a slightly easier enterprise, on the one hand, because the villages are isolated and the only way to get into them is via airplane or river. They haven't been completely successful as alcoholism is still a serious problem in the bush.
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