Wednesday, April 27, 2011  Government Creates Poverty
Government Creates Poverty By John Stossel  The U.S. government
has "helped" no group more than it has "helped" the American
Indians. It stuns me when President Obama appears before Indian
groups and says things like, "Few have been ignored by
Washington for as long as Native Americans."   Nevertheless,
Indian activists want more government "help."  It is intuitive
to assume that, when people struggle, government "help" is the
answer. The opposite is true. American groups who are helped the
most, do the worst.  Consider the Lumbees of Robeson County,
N.C. -- a tribe not recognized as sovereign by the government
and therefore ineligible for most of the "help" given other
tribes. The Lumbees do much better than those recognized tribes.
The Lumbees' wealth is not from casino money.  "We don't have
any casinos. We have 12 banks," says Ben Chavis, another
successful Lumbee businessman. He also points out that Robeson
County looks different from most Indian r