While we are discussing the handouts to the Native American Indians, don't forget the blacks that think they deserve reparations for slavery. Both of you are right in saying that the past IS the PAST and people need to get a grip on life and move forward. How long do we have to pay for things that happened hundreds of years ago? And, the people who are on the receiving end of the government subsidies certainly did not have to do the suffering. STUFF HAPPENS. ONWARD AND UPWARD.