SOCIALISTIC IDOLATRY

I am sorry to say that my life has been a part of the grand experiment of socialism in the United States. I was born and raised and have spent the most part of my life living on reservations. I have lived on four reservations and have ministered on dozens of others. They are all the same and display the same poverty characteristics and problems. The main problem I see is the pythons grip of socialism that has decayed the talents and initiative of our Native People. Right now we are being set up for another round of disappointment and failure with the emergence of Barak Obama. Now I love Barak and would love to see him become president, but I can see the writting on the wall. Beneath the messianic image and rhetorical hype Barak offers empty promises of more government intervention and control over the lives of Indian People. Barak inspires images of robbing the rich to take care of the poor; images of more government programs (we are domestically dependent nations). Unfortunately, the government socialism experiment on our reservations has done nothing but destroy my people. The problem with taking from the rich to give to the poor results in everybody becoming poor, even the tribal governments. Tribal governments do not generate enough income to pay for themselves, they are a poverty entity and they perpetuate the socialist system to perpetuate their own existance. Indian people we don't need tribal councils! On reservations the Tribe owns the businesses. Anytime an enterprising individual tries to stand up they are slapped down with tribal regulations, federal regulations, state regulations, county regulations, tax regulations, and if Barak has his way United Nations regulations. On the reservation the government runs and owns the housing. A couple of years ago my son and I built the first privately financed house, in our home town ,that has been built in many years. On the rez we have government run health care. They tell you what treatmants you can receive and if it is not in the budget to pay for your care you are not allowed the treatment. You stand in line for services (literally stand in line). Now I am thankful for the health care I receive, but for you America there is a better way. On the rez we are waiting for the next tribal program to help us out. We are a shell of an economy. If you want socialism, I am telling you, it is a trap to lower the standard of living for every American, and to empower the elite few, who know better, to tell us what is best for us.