Originally Posted By: rocky mtn bill
Craig, our suicide rate and problems with drugs and alcohol are in part the result of the difficulty of earning a living here. Montana is a poor state. There are few job opportunities and low pay. Winters are long and dark. We don't have much in the way of mental health services. Our Indian reservations are where the problems are most acute. Developing economies there is a daunting task. I don't have any answers.


It's a daunting task developing economies on reservations up here as well. But the liberal solution of treating them as incompetents, providing them with specialized benefits based on race and encouraging them to continue to live in isolated, rural backwaters while stoking their sense of victimhood has only exacerbated the problem. Hmmmm, reminds me of how the Democrats treat blacks.

While I understand the Liberal empathy for those less fortunate, it is staggering to me that your solutions, so often and with incredible regularity, are tried again and again always with the same failing result. At the same time, conservative notions of personal responsibility are, again with such regularity, at the hearty of successful outcomes. It speaks to the idea that it's not really about solving the problem but more about making the Liberal feel better himself because he can look at the effort and console himself that "we are at least trying".

The ONLY successful reservations I see in Canada are ones that encourage getting off the government teat, shouldering personal responsibility for one's situation in life and working hard to change it. You know....the recipe for success that most of the rest of us try to follow.

The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia