John,
As you attested through your experience in VistaVolunteers, govt
social programs not only breed apathy and disorganization, the
embody them. I imagine your experience is typical. There is no
better model of low ambition. Not only do recipients of aid loose
ambition, but so does the govt agency handing it out. Neither the
recipients nor the givers have to work for what they get. Neither
has to be competent; they have no customers to win over. The
incentive is exactly the opposite of business. Govt especially
has incentive to waste money so they can get more the next year.
The more money they waste, they more they can forcibly extort
from taxpayers in the future.
You are great at giving advice, but how are you at taking it?
Here, take mine. Next time, spend only your own doe to go back
and start your own enterprise (make a real investment) in the
area, take advantage of the cheap labor, and present yourself as
a true role model for independent innovation. Considering how
often you use the word, you must know bullshit better than
anyone; so you must also know that Native American children see
through bullshit better than anyone, especially (I imagine) phony
baloney white-govt bullshit. And they will see it in you, no
matter how little govt bullshit you represent. This time, put on
different glasses that see individual opportunity for wealth
instead of mass poverty, for therein is the solution to said
poverty. Get rich, don't hire any LDS, and benefit the area
better than any inept social program ever could. Real
entrepreneurs aren't backed by govt; you only need a little
individual creativity (and a little less superiority might also
help).
-Mark
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IT is exactly the same today as it was in your day. Get the
reports in,
regardless of what is REALLY happening SAY they are going well! A
volunteer
could literally do NOTHING every day if that is what he or she
chose, just
send in a GOOD REPORT and on time!
We were fortunate....we had a great crew of 12.
Want to hear another little ditty about San Juan County? We were
selected
through the White Mesa Ute Board, a non-profit run by a certain
individual.
He was the head of the other 6 non-profits in that part of the
county. He
literally ran the whole thing. He was an LDS member. The charter
said that
12 VISTA volunteers were to work on White Mesa and develop
sustainable
programs that, if successful, would expand to the rest of the
county.
In truth, I was the only VISTA on White Mesa. The REST worked to
support the
local college and schools in the county, freeing up paid
employees from
secretarial work, putting together educational testing and doing
grunt work.
In this way, San Juan County got the lions share of the resources
the VISTA
program intended for the Native Americans.
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