----- Original Message ----- From: "John Stroebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> That is part of what is being done there now. Oh, no, I finished a second > year and moved on to teach on the Wind RIver Reservation in Wyoming. > This article began with a post I was sharing...showing a business success on > this reservation. I showed an article on how VISTAS found a way to assist > the Ute and Navajo children in San Juan County with sales of home made candy > over the Internet. The success was so surprising that the parents are now > involved. > I was a part of VISTA back in '82-'83. I did not have the good VISTA experience you did, though my project was gratifying. My problem was that VISTA required written reports, and that VISTA really did not seem to care whether the project was successful or not. As far as VISTA was concerned, as long as the weekly reports were timely, the project was successful. As far as I was concerned, the reports were far too time consuming unless I what I wrote was vague and contained a lot of obtuse verbiage. Accurate reports were impossible because I was in charge of a "Gleaning Program" for local farms at the local food bank. Of course this was neccessarily seasonal, and I found that there is actually very little food (commercially) grown in Ohio for human consumption. The rest of the time I was helping out around the food bank, which actually took up nearly all my time. The food bank was something that I believed in, afterall, it wasn't government funded. One good experience was at the beginning of my service, I was required to sign a proclamation to defend America from all enemies, foriegn and domestic. I scratched out America, US and other government references and replaced them with "people of the world" or some such. I found out several years later that the local director of VISTA always showed this signed statement (sans my signature, I hope) to new recruits during orientation as to what they were allowed to do if they had a problem with the oath. > That is what we do there...we need to first begin with education. A person > who can not read or spell can not access the Internet, and this is one major > way to find a market for their products. I set up a business council to help > Ute adults with assistance with business decisions. > Here again, I found that the welfare mentality caused people to not care or work toward their own welfare. This was the era of free government cheese handouts. People would stand in line for several hours for a 5 pound block of cheese (or fight to get to the front of the line (police were omnipresent during these handouts). Sad, really. And the volunteers I managed to find for the project never came from the local food pantries, but from church groups and other civic organizations. PEACE Steven R. Linnabary, Treasurer Franklin County Libertarian Party (614) 891-8841 P.O.Box#115; Blacklick, OH 43004-0115 "When you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable" John F. Kennedy ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/KlSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
