"E. laBrett Ruus" <elruus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> In article <eca071$93$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, jrernst@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
>> I just returned from a week long mission trip at the Rosebud Lakota
>> Reservation.
>>
>> A woman there is attempting to teach the youth reasonability, pride and
>> self-reliance by riding and caring for horses.
>> She explained to me that the had plenty of horses, but what they did
need
>> was tack and saddles.
>
> How about doing car washes, yard sales, odd jobs, collecting & recycling
> cans, things like that, your friend and her youth would learn more about
> responsibility, pride and self reliance that way, than by begging for
> handouts from anonymous strangers. Isn't that what perpetuates the
> social problems in reservations and ghettos in the first place?
Ok I'll tell her what you suggested, but only if you and your friends go
and
buy their baked goods, get your cars washed and buy what little they can
part with at a garage sale.
There are no job's to be had in the area. With no jobs there is no hope.
With no hope there is no pride. What she is doing is trying to do is
instill
the pride of achievement in her students in hope the rest will follow. If
they have this respect for themselves maybe they won't turn to alcohol or
drugs. This is why she would like the had-me-down tack. It is not only to
use, but to refurbish if need be.
You are either an ass or you live in your own world and don't have a clue
of
how the real one works.
These people are not asking for new tack and saddles, all they want is
something that no one uses anymore. It could be just a dust collector or a
piece of crap that the devil himself has thrown away.
John Ernst
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