I was born and raised in Indian country and I never knew anybody who had any principal to invade. I guess I showed my ignorance again the time some students were complaining to Mitt about the costs of education and he said they should borrow some money from their parents, start a small business, and come back to college later. He did not crack a smile. My expectation that he might was ignorance.

Many people took Romney’s blindness for meanness. Maybe I did at times.

A man like myself, born and raised in Indian country, has his head in a box. He has the survival skills his people taught him, skills that work where he was born.

So do we all have our heads in boxes? Some of us learn to think outside the box as we soak up the experiences of the people we meet.

It seems to me that if I can learn to trade stocks, those House Republicans can learn that people are not on food stamps because they invaded the principal in their portfolios for living expenses.