Reply #114: Exactly

[sarahlee]

After all, it was the BIA in DC that "misplaced" billions of tribal money, the Pentegon that can't find billions of money spent for defense and cannot account for money sent to Iraq, the FBI that has spent millions on computer systems that don't work and have purchased computers they can't find, Congress that passed a Bankruptcy Bill that screws citizens in favor of corporations (and remember when they were pushing that bill, reform of lending practices was going to happen to make the bill fair - and that has not yet been mentioned this term), DC that wants to sell off our national forest, ignored the warnings of scientists about global warming, we have a president who believes it is ok to push aside constitutional rights to privacy whenever he wants to.

We just had a Congressman resign for taking bribes and DeLay is still voting in Congress while being investigated.

It would take pages to list all of the other situations where money and favoriatism has taken priority over the needs and welfare of citizens.

With tribal politics a relative might get a favor or favorible job. In DC, the lobbyiest or the president's friend or friend of a friend or Halliburtion will. At least at the tribal level, EVERYONE will be debating and fighting out the issues at the community level and when enough feel the need, changes do get made at the next election. The people have been known to take over tribal offices until audits are done or votes recounted. Would be wonderful if citizens could have that kind of influence in DC.