It used to be beads and mirrors that the Amerindians were bribed with in exchange for their gold.

Now they get a cheap boat and motor instead that I could buy for less than one week's wages from the boat shop up my road. My brother Bucks have not yet mastered the art of financial and fiscal foresight.

Wow...please massa please.. thank you for the lil boat....now we can cross the creek. 

That our people now see this as an example of the government doing good and that they waited for this offering is pathetic. I can build a better boat in my backyard over the weekend.  Actually, I can build a fully capable and safe fiberglass boat better than that crap in a week end. I can teach them to do the same since the materials necessary are only chicken wire, kevlar and a couple of cans of materials

Why don't you go teach them? I emplored you years ago to give back to "your people" but instead you chose the cushy life in your perch of luxury in the US. But then after your blunders revealed that you were a White pretending to be Amerindian, I finally realized why you are a talker and not a doer.

Not my job. My point is that a catalog boat is enough for these idiots to have a photo op for showing "amerind development". Bet his wife spent as  much on them shiny shoes. Show them making their own boats instead of begging for them and call it development.

Stop being couvesious. A boat is better than six empty barrels give by that crab ass Gehrard. 

You think us bucks can't make a boat out of a hollowed out tree trunk? That aluminium junk just needs a hole in it and it will sink. We had one of them for a while. It hit one of those underwater hidden rocks just by the bridge gong across from MacKenzie to Wismar. Damn thing sank in no time. A wooden boat would have stayed afloat.

Mudhead, what is couvesious?

It's to show that cobra went to skool in skeldon and learned BIG words from the teacher.

All boats are like vehicles that are subject to make accidents. People who travels by water always wear life vest for safety. If the Prezy has given a wooden boat instead of aluminum, he would still hear the opposite from his critics.  

When is the last time you saw a buck wearing a life vest?

The boat + engine cost 7.5K US. So stop belittling this contribution as though it was beads. Also govt will be providing fuel.

Garcia thanked the President and the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs for providing them with the boat and engine valued $1.5M.

My sister sells those boats. They are between 250 and 1000.  That is clearly not even 3k if one is to account for a very good twin prop engine. But that boat cannot take a high powered engine.  So the engine has to be a small one as well. In any event, I am pissed that they insult the people with having a photo op on account of giving them pittance.

I can go to the surplus store up the street and get me a far better boat than that for less than a thousand dollars. You need to get off your pitiful ass and look up the cost of boats.

Aluminum boats are not easily fixable. Small dents are easy. Large dents and you lose the boat. Fiberglass are easily fixed plus they are good as the aluminum boats in freshwater and they are safer since they have a foam core and are unsinkable.

Only PPP people mek up brand new words.

In your haste to demonize you forgot about the engine which starts at 5K

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Originally Posted by Danyael:

 

Garcia thanked the President and the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs for providing them with the boat and engine valued $1.5M.

My sister sells those boats. They are between 250 and 1000.  That is clearly not even 3k if one is to account for a very good twin prop engine. But that boat cannot take a high powered engine.  So the engine has to be a small one as well. In any event, I am pissed that they insult the people with having a photo op on account of giving them pittance.

 

I can go to the surplus store up the street and get me a far better boat than that for less than a thousand dollars. You need to get off your pitiful ass and look up the cost of boats.

In your haste to demonize you forgot about the engine which starts at 5K

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Tohatsu MD40B2EFTOS Outboard Motor Price: $5, 097.38 MSRP: $6, 070.00 Type: Outboard Motor Year: Current Series: Two Stroke Direct Injection HP: 40 Cylinders:  3 Starting System:  Electric Control Type:  Tiller Handle Weight:  205.7 lbs Power Trim and Tilt:  Yes Call 877-412-3408 To Order  or Request More Information Here

I did not dispute the cost of the engine since even without looking I knew it had to be in the four K range. I am sure a government gets a discount and coming from japan without the duties attached to a US price it has to be around 4K.

I am speaking of the boat which is   clugger. It lies low in the water is not safe at high speed and fragile.  That engine is tricky on that boat since the people driving it would be inclined to take it flat out and kill themselves.

I see those at the surplus store up the street from me plus I know what new ones cost since as I said, my sister sells them...actually better ones.

Now back to my original point; since we are water bound why are we not building boats when we have such good craft people? It may take time to get a form going but one can put together hundreds of boats easily  from one mould and there is a market for them

Is it govt's responsibility to be building boats? And who is "we"? Govt or entrepreneurs? If the economic benefits are there then it will happen. Unfortunately we have people like yourself who talk and don't do. We need more doers and less talkers. 

Its accountability is to provide appropriate transportation. 

You jumping from pillar to post, first it was the cost of the boat, then the govt should build the boat, now its providing "appropriate transportation".  Which is why the boat was purchased and presented to the village. There is no pleasing you folks. 

 The boat is insubstantial. It is a fishermans skiff to be used as transportation for kids. Of course the people will take it. They have nothing.