Prospectors, an Endangered Species? Page 5 of 6

I’m sorry. I get thinking about such abuses as the non-Christan practice of flipping housing (at the cost of breaking up young struggling families to benefit real estate developers and mortgage companies), and the non-productive antics of the hypocrites who control our economic well being, this hard money advocate is chomping at the bit to dig up his gold reserves from the banks of some unnamed Alaskan creek. Do not make the mistake, however, believing the slur that we disrespect our heritage, genetic lifestyle, and home. Sorry, Hollywood, a whole bunch of us have a Athabaskin markers in our DNA. Some of us listen to elders that when it comes to matters of survival you need to pay attention to the sustainability of your livelihood. We don’t need phony prophets from outside telling us what to do, just so they can live off of lies.

Recently on a snowbird trip through the homeland of tree huggers who have been coming north to benefit in the bounty of the State of Alaska sharing the wealth of our oil with citizens, and the growth industry of ecological protesting, I was treated with local news coverage in Eugene, Oregon, where “reality” isn’t staged as a TV event anymore. It seems that as Lane County was no longer receiving in-lieu payments from the U.S. Forest Service of timber harvested in the county. Therefore people who had actually benefited from these resource dollars, supporting schools and sheriff services, without paying any sales tax, were demonstrating to Uncle Sugar to make up the difference (which it did).