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Maybe the New Mexico tribes have it right -- if you are going to have Indian gaiming, plow the profits back into the community and infrastructure so that you can attract further development.

Paisano is an impressive leader -- he is young, well spoken and comes across as very business oriented in press and TV interviews.

In the article, it is stated that unemployment rates on Indian lands nationally run between 45 and 55 percent. Six of the gaming pueblos (all in the Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos corridor) — Sandia, Isleta, Santa Ana, Taos, San Juan and Pojoaque— have unemployment rates in the single digits. Sandia Pueblo has an unemployment rate of 1 percent, according to the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Its good to see what the indian tribes are able to do with the profits they make by selling addiction to weak people.

I wonder, what if they were to deal some drugs and perhaps take up prostitution as well??

Why not? What is the moral imperative that says it is OK to bring people in to succumb to their greed, and not take advantage of their lust as well?

I used to live in the area. The Sandia Pueblo was 2 miles south of my place. The thing that killed the Indians wasn't the US Army, it was the reservation system. As long as you stay on the reservation you have a guaranteed income, no job but you get a stipend. That led to a malaise and the usual welfare system problems.
The gaming allows them to be independent. They can earn money for a job and not from the government and get off the reservation. They become republicans once they have money.
Compare that to back east. Other than CT, most states here don;t want them to have casinos. They prefer to ignore them and give them money. The are treated as dime store Indians.

Maybe the New Mexico tribes have it right -- if you are going to have Indian gaming, plow the profits back into the community and infrastructure so that you can attract further development.

Oh yeah? Consider this: There's an interesting ideological experiment going on here in Minnesota. Two tribes own casinos here, the Sioux and the Chippewa. The Sioux hand out money directly to tribal members and each member receives over $900,000 a year. Yeah, that's not a typo. The Chippewa take the more collectivist approach and plow the money back into infrastructure, paying for schools, clinics, roads, etc., and no tribal member gets any direct payment but they do get a job opportunity at the casinos.

Guess who has the best environment for doing business, re: roads, other businesses that have sprung up in the area, etc.? The Sioux. With a community of basically multi-millionaires, businesses have flocked to the area to get in on that action, and the state and county have built roads to accommodate the increased traffic.

The collectivist Chippewa operation has been good if you live on the rez, but the business development surrounding it has been virtually non-existent.

Collectivism loses the ideological contest again.

Anyone who makes their living from the vices of others is a low life..and no good will ever come of any of it.....

Gambling..like drugs and prostitution destroy families...destroy families and you destroy a culture and a nation...

The deconstruction of the America of our founders and the rot of our culture accelerates

Legalizing vice... is the dark side of pure capitalism....license the abuse of freedom.. without a moral compass a nation simply steers for the shoals..this is simply mankind's nature

imo

Yep, they're going to take the filthy lucre of the white man and use it for lawyers.

They are going to steal with lawyers what was won honorably by the gun....

Even I play golf on Santa Ana Res...

I love it. The 5th hole of 'Star' 9 is tucked up next to the unfinished hotel. I call it the 'Apocalypse Hole' because the hotel is an absolute hulking eyesore of decay.

The Big Chief absconded with 2.3Mil of wampum (from us) and they could never finish the hotel.

When will we learn to stop feeding the dog at the table?