Nor can you explain why the problem is not as bad on Baffin Island. Tough access there too.
Industry explains it clearly.
Frozen schmozen. Marsh schmarsh.
That comment only highlights your lack of knowledge of the area.
The Red Army supplied Leningrad during WW2, not very well as a million died-and they had very bad weather to contend with, not to mention Studkas.
Simply because the powers that be were willing to expend any cost, human or otherwise.
The weather/tundra/muskeg is irrelevant here.
Even by your own standards, it isn't. The cost would likely be in the millions. Muskeg has to be gone over, or around in many cases. Given your complaints about money thrown at 'Indians', wouldn't spending that kind of money upset you too?
Like many Canadians, they only really exist in the media.
And you think that's a fair example of what all First Nations are like?
... I get criticized for starting threads on Indians, and commenting on them.
No, you get criticized for generalizing, ignoring facts, making things up and otherwise having no interest in learning anything about First Nations, beyond your limited exposure to a media induced image. Coupled with an unhealthy dose of what appears to be racial prejudice.
We spend billions on Indians, far too many live in squalor, and most yawn.
When you say most, who are you referring to?
Doesn't billions of dollars interest you?
Yes.
Also, I never went along when others called Indians "chugs". Not because I liked them, but they seemed underdogs and didn't need such abuse.
The ignorance of that statement aside. Anytime I hear some 'Indian' talking about how the 'white man' is keeping 'Indians' down, I don't just ignore it, or not go along. I bristle against it and challenge them to make a valid, contemporary case.
Indians live in Canada, but separately.
These are the silly generalized comments that make it so hard to give your posts anything but contempt.
That does seem to be the plan, throw billions of dollars at the problem and hope it solves itself. It might work. But it seems to be working very slowly.
It rarely works. It's something I have railed against for years.
If I didn't have to spend so much time trying to correct the myths, lies, stereotypes and generalizations. We could likely find common ground. It's not as if you don't say somethings I agree with. It's just that you bury them under a ton of shyte, that makes it hard to treat you with any sort of respect.
Don't I get some credit for not calling people names? That's racist and ignorant?
Names have nothing to do with why you come off like a bit of a racist. It's in your dismissal of facts, and use of broad sweeping, myths, lies, stereotypes and generalizations, that creates that impression.
Makes no sense. Being indifferent is not racism. Whenever I met an Indian I treated him like anybody else. Same with a black person.
Then why do you generalize whole racial groups, and ignore facts that show your generalizations to be false?
I think what pisses a lot of people off is that they read about this million or that million being given to a "tribe" or tribes for the purpose of education, housing, welfare. Then they read about how much money the "chiefs" make, and how the money gets siphoned off somewhere, with little oversight and accountability - leaving the ordinary folks as poor or poorer than they were before. True or not, it's the news pap which is thrown out there.
It's true. It's wide spread, and it pisses me off too.
It seems to keep on happening..........((seems))...........and reporting the like is inflammatory, but there's usually very little follow up done so "whitey" just sees the tax dollars being chucked into the vortex, and hears about "new" land claims for some more millions; all this while the white man is seeing his owns situation regress.
I can empathize. Especially when you consider the amount of sloth, waste, criminality and apathy, that permeates many reserves and Councils.
It was in large part to those very issues, that my Grandfather moved off the rez.
Because there's NO POLITICAL WILL to really change things, to really HELP.
Beyond the cheap optics of throwing wasted money at any issue that raises its ugly head. It's time for real change, real focus and real accountability. Across the board.
