'We need to live without handouts'

Before we jump to conclusions, to help out the cries we hear, let's look around at our economics. Yes, our gas and oil cost is overwhelmingly high. Here we are stepping on our oil and gas under the United States because we have no voice to lead us. There's no head. We'll keep crying, "we're getting nowhere."

Stop. Look. Listen.

There are teens and kids running around all night using their parents' snowmachines and four-wheelers. Do they burn gas?

Let's look at our bootleggers charging $100 a bottle. Where are they getting cash? Look at the villages. There is bingo in every town. Who's giving them money? We have energy assistance (energy rebate) for those with low incomes. I see food stamp cards. We don't use cash to buy food. I see energy drinks in the store. Every store has them and they keep running out. Who's buying them? There is a lot of pop going to villages. I pass children eating chips. They are not hungry for moose soup.

I see, now, two openings for moose season. Few elderly people set the fish net under the ice. No young people are helping ice fish. Nobody goes there. Rabbit snaring; my grandson brought two rabbits home from what he caught.

Now we have freezers to keep our food supply fresh. I eat berries that were put away in August, moose meat and summer fish that was put away in summer and fall. If we start receiving from the food bank, what will happen to our corporation stores?

We need to start making a living on our own without handouts.

Teens lay around with nothing to do. Young adults bare five or more kids. The kids have no discipline. They don't learn how to hunt and survive.

My parents had no jobs and weren't working in my time. Still, I didn't starve. Then I learned to raise my six children, who are now adults with many grandchildren running around.

Let's face it. I support bingo. I support bootleggers. I support my corporation store.