“The casino allowed people to come forward and admit who they are, and it offered a sense of pride and stability. But then it evolved into a sense of entitlement,’’ Rogers said. “This entitlement and one-upmanship and ego is really what’s ruining this tribe and ruining the casino. How much money is enough? At what point do you ask yourself that question? For some people, there’s never enough.’’
Rell has expressed upset that state revenues from the casinos are down. Cry me a river. What did these politicians expect when they allowed these monstrosities?
Is this really coming from a FReeper?
"Politician allow"? Excuse me, but it's not up to the politicians to "allow" anything. I don't particularly care for Foxwoods. I think I've been there twice. For small time gambler me (I know what pays for all these Taj Mahal like casinos.) it has none of the pizazz of the places in Vegas (which I haven't been to in 15 years). But it's pretty obvious to me that lots of people do like Foxwoods and places like it. Foxwoods, particularly, is so remote from everything else that one cannot even argue that it is somehow a negative influence on children. That Foxwoods may have been mismanaged "or poisoned a community of people who suddenly achieved a lifestyle they had never imagined," is hardly unique. The same could be said for the entire United States of America. Politicians are hardly the ones to tell us how to run our lives.
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