Tribes in Columbia River Gorge hit by White House decision
Source: Associated Press
Andrew Selsky, Associated Press
Updated 8:26 pm, Monday, October 30, 2017
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Trump administration is neglecting the U.S. government's obligation to build new homes for Indians whose original abodes were submerged by dams along the Columbia River, members of Congressional delegations from Oregon and Washington state said.
The hundreds of tribal members are living in dilapidated trailers and other substandard housing along the Columbia River. The promised new homes haven't been built yet even though decades have passed since the dams were built. Now a funding decision by the White House's Office of Management and Budget has put even the preparation work on hold.
In a letter, the politicians told Mick Mulvaney, director Office of Management and Budget, that "the federal government has a legal and moral responsibility" to maintain the funding. They urged him to reconsider his decision.
The letter, dated Friday and released to the media on Monday, was signed by Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell of Washington, Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden of Oregon, and Rep. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon. All of the lawmakers are Democrats.
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either. I was a poor white kid.
Harsh bigots are a real minority. Our problem is the others, normal cons. What's going on is that they all tend to believe in a natural order where the virtue is encouraged by rewards, bad behavior discouraged by consequences. Where interfering leads to societal decay and collapse.
Unfortunately, something that once at least had some basis in reality, recognizing that some people did genuinely need help before they could move forward, has been developed into an extreme ideology today by "small government" anti-tax, anti-regulation manipulators.
They've been indoctrinated to believe that if government gets its corrupting hands off, these people'll move, get jobs and better housing elsewhere, and raise their kids to be plumbers and bookkeepers, keep their cars washed, mow their lawns, maybe even become IT managers and accountants and create jobs for others to wash their cars and mow their lawns for them.
If this isn't turned into a public fight, legislators might quietly behind the scenes encourage the tap to open up a bit. But if the manipulators turn Fox and its viewers on this?
and then the country has an interior secretary gallivanting around at tax payers expense --------------
