Case in Point: Century Old Battle over the Indian Trust Fund

Reading this article is quite frustrating and illuminates the utter greed of our government. Not lost in all the arguing is the offer of an $8 Billion dollar settlement on a $50 Billion case. The Native Americans should be grateful for the mismanagement of their monies netting them only 16% of what they should be granted?

Senator McCain claims that he wasn't happy with the settlement offer, but if that was the case, why was it made in the first place?

Of course, the ludicrousness of this whole piece is the fact that there has never been a comprehensive audit, nor any believable accountability, in the entire management of the Indian Trust Fund.

The judge in the case was removed because he had "lost his perspective." Holding the government accountable for over a century of injustice, injustice still perpetrated again and again by the Department of the Interior in the present day, apparently did not sit right with the Feds. The poor judge was mired in swill and commented on the stench. Sadly, doing his job got him "fired," so to speak.

I know that there are horrors going on in Darfur, the Middle East, Thialand, and the like. Aids, genocide, and child trafficking are a blight upon humanity. The systematic degrading and plundering of a people is as well. Suffering is still suffering.

Haven't Native Americans suffered enough at the hands of our government?