When I worked building those things in my youth, we used to call them wobbleboxes. I have a certain knowledge of the materials they were made from, and I doubt there have been many changes since then. Most of that material they use pretty much oozes toxins, and those wobbleboxes were toxic traps when they rolled out the factory door. You can smell the formaldehyde as you enter them, and back then they had to stand outside in a huge lot with the doors and windows open for a certain period of time before they could be sold. They reeked too much if this wasn’t done.

I’ve got an idea!

Don’t buy the damn things!

Once again, you racists are casting Native Americans as too stupid to make informed decisions about the trailers, therefore must be protected from themselves by the government, which then turns around and forces the trailers on them, which allows you whiners to accuse the government of “genocide.”

Come on TAOwalker, weigh in here.

Give me a break.

Forgot to mention that when these trailers were offered to the Native Indians, we were told that if the trailers were to be aired out for at least a year with all the doors and windows open, they would be safe to reside in after that. After all the elements from Mother Nature like rain, snow, hot and cold weather helped to also cause other problems like mold and deteriorated materials building materials to start to rot.

Thanks but no thanks to this obvious continuation of ethnic cleansing of Americans indigenous peoples.

As Tao Walker would put it. Hoka Hay!

This is blatantly criminal and indeed brings to mind the smallpox laden blankets given to Native Americans by the racist, exploitive and religiously righteous plunderers of the American frontier.  Shame.

Prescott Bush tried to create a Fascist coup in 1933, and as senator helped form the CIA in which his son George became chief, and then the leader of the military Robert Gates. Fema is not working for the people, and neither are the republican party, but what is in the GOP.s best interest. Obama was picked to be another one of their pasty’s, like the Taliban, Saddam, Noreiga, Oswald, to name a few, and their radical Tea Party led by Beck will keep us in Capitolism, but to the Fascist state Prescott tried for, but failed, and the Xe will be our Gastapo in 2012.

Ralph Nader said in 2000 there wasn’t “a dime’s worth of difference” between Bush and Gore.  He mounted his campaign to SINK Gore and this is what we have: The Dross of the Bush regime.  The gift that keeps on giving.
It left us with an economic crisis.
It left us with a financial crisis.
It left us with the greatest deficit ever.
It left us with one totally illegal, useless, criminal war.
It left us with one totally mishandled and blown second war.
It left us with the Patriot Act.
It left us with Roberts and Alito on the USSC.
It left us STILL with the Katrina cleanup.
It left us with a totally insane obstructionist Republican minority.
It left us with gutted environmental controls.
It left us with state school boards with the temerity to re-write and re-create total fantasy as “history”.
It left us far closer to a fascist dictatorship than we have ever been.

Not a dime’s worth of difference.

puplewolf

no I didn’t hear , but

it is disgracful today as it always has been. 
Bless you and your people,
I am so sorry Americans keep electing such inept,
money hungry lawmakers into office.

Peace

gerard:
“Gotta take responsibility”

Who? You? Never happen. You’re a government tit sucker from end to end.

From New Orleans to Haiti to Afghanistan to global warming, it is crystal clear that there is no long-term planning in the U.S. for anything.  The only plans revolve around making as much money as possible.  Grab! Grab!

Part of this shortsightedness we “inherited” from allowing ourselvles to be brainwashed by the rightist, so called conservative, ideology that preached that there were two and only two kinds of economies—free and planned, and that planned was bad and free was good. Socialism is planned, therefore socialism is bad.

Not realizing what would happen, ordinary people believed this simple-minded myth and said, “Yes, free is good.  We want to be free.  We want an unplanned system.  Down with socialism!  Let the economy (market) be free and it will manage itself.

But—turns out the market doesn’t manage itself.  People behind the scenes manage it secretly so that they win and we lose.  Oops!  Bankruptcy.  Wars.  No jobs. Chaos. Backbiting and quarrels. Cheating. No affordable health care.  People losing their homes. Oops! Huge gaps.  Poor education. Big prisons.  Ignorant public, Something must be wrong with free.  Maybe we should plan more.

Gotta re-think.  Gotta change.  Gotta grow up. Gotta take responsibility and help out.

What amazes me is the sale of these units wholesale to someone who will reap a huge profit in their resale. They should be destroyed or simply given away with warnings attached.

The idea of recovering wasted money from these units is more GOP than Democratic.
There should be legal estopples on these mass sales to profiteers.

You know, it’s bad enough that Bush ‘n Brownie tried to poison people with these things. Where was the CDC or EPA back when these things were being bought? And why is the Obama administration trying to cover-up yet ANOTHER CRIME of his predecessor by selling these death traps to the public?

These are the same trailers that the Bush administration told the Native Indians in Oklahoma they could have these trailers for free, the drawback? The Indians would have to pay to have these death traps delivered to those on the rez who would take them. Yep, the updated version of the Blanket Fever is still alive and well in America today.

And speaking of our Native peoples. How come the news in this country didn’t report of the problems that hit one of our reservation a few weeks ago? 27,000 electrical poles broken, no heat, water, or electricity for weeks while America was sending all kinds of aid, food, water, money and soldiers to Haiti and other countries hit by earthquakes and other storms from natures wrath. Guess those of us in Indian country still rate at the bottom in America.

Did you know the average income for a family of 5 on some of our reservations is just over $2,500.00 a year?