Native Alaskans to Palin-You Just Don't Get It


	Native Alaskans to Palin-You Just Don't Get It

dmegivern

2-24-2009 8:52 AM

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6-12-2009 2:31 PM

disenchantedcitizen

They don't have enough money or political clout to concern her. Which is exactly why she needs to get out of office.

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The boarding school times in which young people left "for a short time" were some of the most devastating to these communities. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://open.salon.com/blog/writing_raven/2009/02/21/palin_thinks_the_youth_need_to_move_out_of_the_villages">What these communities need is infrastructure, jobs in the communities themselves. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://open.salon.com/blog/writing_raven/2009/02/21/palin_thinks_the_youth_need_to_move_out_of_the_villages">Palin's reminder to villages: We're in a cash-based society now.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://open.salon.com/blog/writing_raven/2009/02/21/palin_thinks_the_youth_need_to_move_out_of_the_villages">Does she think the village people are trading beads? 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