hoorah

what you going to do  now, the election is done and Rob is in, the first educated president we ever had.  If you ask me, we are finally on track. Let us do this, lets get everything straight for this day. We are a people who now think economically, we think in education terms, we think of what is best for our people. what is best is that we have someone who thinks and knows that way and we need to get working to stabilize or culture and needs to improve our economic position to make sure that we control our own destiny as a nation and not as a people and not as an individual... but as a nation. at this point we will survive because we voted for the right way to run this nation.

$250,000 to Republicans, what are we thinking

The irony is very quick to see in this; the Seneca Nation donating $250,000 to the Republican Party...  for one it is the Republican Party, two: why are we giving their system money, three: don't our people need that money for something. 

I am not sure if giving money into their political system is really going to help us, especially if those specific politicians do not get in. Of course I understand what they are trying to do, throw their hats into the ring, get noticed, let them know that we are knocking at the door.

But I think we maybe better off as an island amongst ourselves.  Invest the money into our community.  We could always need a little more.  We need to find more and more ways to become more self sufficient.  As it is we are not.  We are relying on the materials and economic systems of New York and the US.  We need to get everything to come from this land and further develop a way to make the cost of living for our people as close to zero as possible. 

Could you imagine that, living life, making a salary and having no bills in regards to heating, cooling, communications and maybe a big fat farm/agricultural subsidy. To live life with no extra cost except to buy food and be happy, that is what the nation should be striving for our people.

Donating to them is only going to put us between their political spats, and it is going to piss alot of people off knowing that while sni workers are only getting paid for 37 and 1/2 hours ( and working 8 1/2), and it still takes weeks and months to get dental and medical appts and there is no place to buy clothing right on our lands.  There is plenty of work to get done at home. That is where their attention should be

Keeping our politicians honest and strengthening our government... that is the goal

Anonymous said...It is evident that no one is using this blog due to the censorship of the administrator. Regardless of how "unsafe" comments may be why keep operating the blog if no one uses it?

Well now that there is another blog, another voice to say, another avenue to express our concerns and try to keep our government honest, my job is pretty much done. This site was never intended to bad mouth people or put out the trash, it was to "keep our governments and its politicians honest, including SNI, State and Federal."

Whether anyone uses it or not does not matter, because they are still reading it.  Maybe now it can turn into something of a good news source or editorial board, which it has been turning to.  So like I said, whether people comment or not does not matter, there is more than one source, people are talking and sharing news and there is an avenue to express peoples concerns.  Job accomplished in my book.

We are what the tea party stand for, and they can't stand it

You would think that this Tea Party campaign and all their positions on government would be in favor with our governments and our rights.  It seems like it would only make sense that they would be one and the same.. doesnt it??

The original Tea Partyiers if i can say that were about less government but more importantly they were about no taxation... it did not matter about no representation, they just did not want to be taxed.  Is that not the same for us.  We have rights, we have treatied rights with the founders of this government that promise us these rights.  And yet these people who seem to believe in no taxation on their income are all for taxing everyone elses income.

This whole tea party thing seems like they would totally back us.  we do not want their governments involved in our business and our commerce just as much as they do not want them involved in theirs.  So why do they have candidates such as Paladino running the gauntlet trying to get us to pay "our fair share" of a tax that truly does not belong to us?  How is that Tea Party?

Maybe they need some "real" indians to get dressed up and go out there and gut some trucks passing through our territory. Maybe we need to send someone to gut and burn a Marlboro factory to show that the new tea is cigarettes.  The government should not have any right to tax anything. And as it is they tax everything, they even tax water.. the only thing left is air. But maybe we already pay that with our land and school tax.

Under the scorn of a fill in governor

So Paterson decided to Scorn us. Here is what he was quoted saying in the news in regard to our "refusal to participate in the collection" of the cigarette tax as well as our "unnacceptable" idea to bail out his local municipalities that HE is leaving high and dry by allowing illegal gaming devices with in our exclusivity area.  Why are we to pay them when they have their own "casino" not even 15 miles from one of our casino's?

But he did not mention that, nor did he mention how their government is full of fat cats who are spending tax dollars recklessly on pet projects and assistants for the assistants for the co directors of each legislators office. What is also funny is how he says:  "This is not how government works in the state of NY." 

He is right about that, you lie, cheat and steal, you are not up front nor do you follow through or keep promises. That is how New Yorks government works.  Actually New Yorks government is broke and I don't mean just financially.

Here is what was said in his visit to Western New York yesterday..

"Paterson scorned the Seneca Nation of Indians for its refusal to participate in the collection of $4.35 in new tobacco taxes for each pack of cigarettes sold. Non-Indian retailers have been collecting the state tax since Sept. 1, while tribes have refused.
Three tribes, including the Seneca Nation, are arguing the case in federal court.
At the same time, the Senecas have delayed making $214 million in casino-related payments to the cash-starved state, citing their belief that New York has violated terms of its 2001 compact with the tribe by allowing slot-machine operations at horse tracks in Batavia and Hamburg.
Paterson's legal counsel, Peter Kiernan, last week gave Barry Snyder Sr., Seneca Nation president, until Oct. 20 to make the payments or risk having gaming licenses withdrawn for three casinos in Niagara Falls, Buffalo and Salamanca.
Snyder and the Senecas have offered to make direct payments to the municipalities and bypass the state.
"It is unacceptable to us," Paterson said.

Read more: Paterson hails historic-tax-credit program - Business First of Buffalo"

Vote for Dipietro, 59th senate district

Hey man, we have to give it up for a guy siding with us.  vote for him will ya.

"Finger Lakes, N.Y. —

David DiPietro, the Tea Party candidate for the 59th state Senate District, said he opposes collecting a state tax on transactions between Seneca Nation merchants and non-Indian customers. DiPetro said today he objects because “It threatens Seneca sovereignty, disrupts their successful economy and increases taxes on consumers.”

“The Senecas are our allies in keeping our dollars in Western New York and out of the hands of greedy Albany politicians. Instead of looking for ever more victims of news taxes, the State needs drastic spending cuts."
DiPietro said taxes by New York’s state and local governments are more than 40 percent higher than in comparable states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania."

Moe John to run for President

I am not sure this is a choice that most of us wanted. Moe and Porter??  Can we do what Richard Pryor did in that one movie where he ran for Mayor... None of the Above?.  I am just kidding.

Maybe this is more of a ploy to save the party system.  I think we need to get rid of the party system.  We need to have everyone throw their names in for the positions available and go in and vote for the best choices.  No straight ticket, no full course vote buying, no bullying.  I think there would still be vote buying and bullying, but I think we would have more say in who gets in.  A sincere good "individual" can get in, one that we voted in. 

I think the discussion here should not be about whether we vote for Moe or Rob but rather if it is time that we change the election process.  I truly think that we have reached the point to get rid of party voting. It has finally ran its course, especially when you consider the impact that the casino money has had on everyone. "If you vote this way, then you will get this much annuity."  and on the other hand "if you do not pay into my election fund, you won't get the construction contract.".  Both valid points that have been used since the 2004. Casino means cash at hand and in hand. 

I think that it is time to push for a resolution and a referendum to have a no party system, elect straight down the line.  Let there be a run of participants for office.  The true people leader will come out on top.

At least for this year though we will actually have to show up for the election and vote... and possibly get $50 in gas money.  Its not $250 but it will have to do.

Lets get everything under control

There is alot of crap going on in the Allegany territory. First there is a triple stabbing that happened due to some drinking and trying to pick up girls. Then there is the vandalizing of the Allegany Fire Hall in Jimersontown.

Of course the case behind the stabbing is very severe, seeing that it involves a member and 3 members of the Tuscarora nation.  The incident as we hear it is not ideal but it is understandable for the person who stabbed the attackers.  If anyone broke into my house in order to abduct my girlfriend, I might do the same.  Having been beat up and threatened to have his women taken, I would have done the same. Protect your own.

In regards to this firehall vandalizing, this is just the opposite. These people ... Kids need to be punished.. they need to be yelled at, egged pegged as trouble makers. A littel public ridicule for these families need to happen. These kids are out of hand when it comes to this stuff.  The parents need to let their kids know that when they deface one of something that belongs to all of us, we need to spend money that would go to something else, to that thing that they deface.

When ever a vehicle is crashed, a basketball or piece of weight equipment or playground equipment is ran through or stolen, the nation needs to use money that  would buy new stuff, to replace or repair the dysfunctional equipment.

Keep your kids in check.  When a person is in trouble protect them. 

For those who are causing trouble in the Jimmersontown community, I have heard that there is going to be some protection coming, there is some justice going to protect that community.

Any other communities having problems, let us know, we can help

Tax cases get joined

The courts have decided to merge the two separate cases of the Seneca/Cayuga with that of the Mohawks in regards to the right to sell tax free cigarettes.

Wise or not, I don't know.  It sounds like the Mohawks were going after this on their own.  I also think that we are all individual nations with our own people and land rights and  I think this is a way for them to clump us together as just "Indian Nation". 

This is important, because they can draw one nations right upon the other as well as draw one nations discrepancies and land rights upon the other. Granted that we are both Indian, we are Iroquois and we do share a similar language and culture, but our land rights are different.  The Mohawk have land that straddles the U.S. Canadian border, and we have more treaty rights than they do.  How will this work out in U.S. courts, courts that  are not about our best interest??

I hope that we figure this out and that we do not let them figure it out for us.

National trend; keep it local..

The seneca nation has offered to make direct payments to the municipalities that hold a Seneca casino.  I think that this is a good idea.  I do have split feelings on it, seeing how these municipalities have done what they needed to, to run all over our rights to do business for their gain.  Seems like now that we are becoming in a way global/national or at least reaching the level of a business that is being looked at through stock and trade; every municipality wants to cash in. 

This is something that each municipality wanted anyway, whether they deserve that right is another infringement.  But as Indian people we do look to take care of those closes to us as they do interact with us daily and service our people. It is just too bad that these municipalities would not look at us in the same way.  I think if it was us on the other end of this situation, we would be rejected and turned off by the local municipality or they would make us sign a local treaty to secede some right to them. 

Maybe we should do the same to them. You have to know that they would do that to us. Make them start to pay us a tax or say we will pay this amount for more local free electricity or advertisement.  Give us a seat on your city council.. you know things that can benefit us. We do have rights that are not fair to them, but we have also been dealt the bad end of a stick that was meant to eliminate us as a nation. 

So we need to consider what our real means should be in this matter. Should we act like them and make a dollar or should we be our selves and see that this is the right thing to do for the municipalities that look after our investment.