It's bull-pooh as opposed to your sacred "economic sense"?  Riiiiighhht.   We all know that money is the real god and law in the US.  If non-natives want something that doesn't belong to them, their money-god justifies everything. You just have a different "sacred" than they do, and you believe your "sacred" is the right "sacred," much like the Christian "God" being the "one true god" justified all the violence and theft in the beginning. "God" gave those brave victim European invaders the land, and that little need for non-stop slaughter was just a side effect of their "God's will."  It never changes.  It's just amazing how it persists century after century.  I think they are right in one way - it's a spiritual problem, just not the way they see it.