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.
ML/NJ
FWIW, I hope you have read: Without Reservation: How a Controversial Indian Tribe Rose to Power and Built the World's Largest Casino ; and see the graft, corruption and legal and political forces behind the creation of Foxwoods. It reads like a detective novel.
Remember when P&W used to be the largest employer in the state? BAWAHAHA!