After Obama’s Immigration Action

 

What exactly does the Tea Party want to do about the undocumented already here who have no longer to fear or worry about deportation. As I understand it, that's the chief change made by President Obama. His order has nothing to do with new illegal immigrants. If the Tea Party has a better idea about what to do about the immigrants who lost their fear of deportation, other than forcing them to take it back (because there isn't the funds or ability to deport 5 million plus people) why don't they tell us. We are all in general I believe open to new good ideas. I must be missing something because I don't understand the Tea Party's purpose for existing other than control through intimidation and spreading negative energy that improves nothing. It only creates more social discord and disorder we certainly can do without. On second thought, they seem to represent a group of terrified souls imprisoned by their own fear of any kind of change. Even when the change is in the form of real genuine progress in human rights. However, I feel like the Tea Party just lurches from one red herring to another. They are about creating rage and then fanning its flames as high as they can. But it is not about developing solutions, it is only about their own ambitions of power. As the deficit fire burned itself out, they just used its ashes to start the immigration fire.

U.S. to pay Navajo Nation $554 million in largest settlement with single Indian tribe.

Yá’át’ééh, my name is Kevin Johnson. I am of the Yucca Strung Out-In-A-Line born for the Manygoats Clan. My maternal grandfather is of the Bitter Water Clan and my paternal grandfather is of the Red Running into the Water People Clan. I am a proud member of the Navajo tribe.

 In a historic settlement, the federal government will pay the Navajo Nation more than half a billion dollars to settle claims that it mismanaged reservation funds for more than 60 years, the Navajo Nation and the US government announced on September 25, 2014.

 At $554 million, the settlement is the largest obtained by a single American Indian tribe against the U.S. It caps a drawn-out dispute filed in 2006 with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. The settlement goes a long way toward repairing some of the “wrongs that have been done against the Navajo people,” said Keith Maryboy, a council delegate for the Navajo Nation.

But it also serves a more practical purpose, he said.

 The Navajo Nation is the largest Native American tribe, with more than 300,000 members and a reservation that spans 27,000 square miles in three states, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. But some tribal members who live in remote areas lack modern amenities — even electricity and running water.

 “This landmark resolution ends protracted and burdensome litigation. It will provide important resources to the Navajo Nation. And it fairly and honorably resolves a legal conflict over the accounting and management of tribal resources,” U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. said in a statement.

 The lawsuit alleged that from 1946 to 2012, the U.S. government, which served as trustee for the tribe’s natural resources, did not negotiate appropriate deals with entities that were extracting natural resources such as coal, uranium, oil and gas from the Navajo reservation.

 In addition, the Navajo Nation contended that the U.S. did not properly monitor royalties to ensure that the tribe was appropriately paid. It also contended that the U.S. did not properly invest the proceeds to ensure that the tribe would receive an appropriate return on its money.

 The lawsuit, which sought $900 million, did not go to trial. Instead the Obama administration decided to settle out of court, said Andrew L. Sandler, who represented the tribe with partner Samuel J. Buffone.

 “There was a lot of government misconduct for a very long time, but the Obama administration and Justice Department stepped up and did the right thing in this case,” Sandler said.

 The settlement was negotiated in June and finalized by senior Navajo and U.S. officials in early August, Sandler said. The U.S. has agreed to pay the settlement in the next 30 to 60 days.

 About 100 similar cases have been filed by other tribes, Sandler said; many have been settled, but a few remain in litigation. The second-largest single settlement was for $380 million, with the Osage tribe in Oklahoma. The 2011 deal ended 11 years of litigation over claims of mismanagement of tribal assets.

 “The trust litigation has been a protracted battle and, in the end, it was a victory for tribal sovereignty,” Shelly, the Navajo Nation president, said in a statement. “After a long, hard-won process, I am pleased that we have finally come to a resolution on this matter to receive fair and just compensation for Navajo Nation.”

Our misfearing culture

 
On Thursday October 16, 2014 USA Today published Erin Kelly,"WASHINGTON — A top public health official told a House panel Thursday that the Obama administration has not ruled out imposing restrictions on travel to and from West Africa to help protect Americans from Ebola.

Thanks conservatives. You own this. This is all your fault. The lesson in all of this. This is what less government gets you. More blood on the hands of the GOTP as a direct result of their continuous failed ideologies.”

First and foremost, there are far too many rabbits to pull out of this hat. Who to blame? What about our deployed military forces? Airport precautions?  I found this article Erin Kelly wrote via USA Today, being that the Ebola cases worldwide and here in Texas are much alerting and frightening, it is relevant material on how easily which supervision is to blame for not being a proactive force. My argument as well from the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Tom Frieden. In this article he said "We will consider any options to better protect Americans," Thomas Frieden, said when asked by Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., whether it is the policy of the Obama administration that there would be no travel restrictions." Please remember the President signed the bill that reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention budget. Even with a lower budget, it's no excuse for CDC decisions that have been ineffective and harmful to health care workers and the public. The CDC doesn't purchase protective equipment, they simply make a recommendation (protocol). The CDC protocol permits the bodily fluids of an Ebola patience to splash onto the skin of a healthcare worker. The CDC has refused to adopt the protocol of the World Health Organization (WHO), which completely covers the care giver. This isn't the fault of conservatives, liberals, or the tea party. Nor is it the fault of President Obama, but it did occur on his watch. I do fault the CDC for not taking aggressive steps to protect health care workers and the public. However, we must also realize the CDC only recommends. Even if they made the perfect recommendation, for the perfect protocol, hospitals can ignore or misinterpret these recommendations. More aggressive steps must be taken. A greater CDC budget is not necessary to halt tourist visas from Western Africa. An increased budget is not required for the adoption of WHO protocols. The health care industry and the CDC needs to better listen to the nurses, in order to better stop Ebola.