Posted on 07/27/2008 8:46:55 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
I didn’t vote for this last round of casino expansions. When I found out the tribes were dumping huge bucks into efforts to influence what takes place in Sacramento, it really soured me on the whole casino deal.
Initially I had wanted a better life for the Indians on the reservations. I just hadn’t planned on them trying to control Sacramento with those funds.
The biggest revenue for Casinos goes to their owners. Suprise. How about a novel idea like CUTTING SPENDING for a change? We have absolute dopes running this country.
Well there's yer problem right there.
People have less disposable income right now for all forms of entertainment, including gambling. Plus most are in pretty remote locations, and the cost of gas is hurting them. Some are offering free gas or gambling credits to get people to come.
Unfortunately you are correct that the primary beneficiaries of Tribal Gaming are politicians who receive tremendous amounts of cash to sell little communities like mine down the river.
Although there are an estimated 12,000-15,000 Chumash descendants, only 150 receive money from the Chumash Casino. The people who get the checks are the ones who were getting free cheese on the reservation in the 1980s. Most Chumash descendants, like Irish immigrants, assimilated into the mainstream and prospered in very occupations. These people, the hard working Chumash descendants, get nothing.
The people who lived on the reservation in Santa Barbara County were primarily the dead-beats and losers. Now they are still dead-beats and losers but they each get about $500,000 a year for being 25% 'Chumash' and $1,000,000 if they are 50% 'Chumash'. Of course there is no DNA test involved...only the vote of the 'Tribal Council' to determine who is Chumash. Interestingly, the Tribal Council is made up of people primarily from a single family of former free cheese recipients.
The only people benefiting from the Chumash Casino are the 150 check recipients, politicians and coke dealers. The Chumash Casino is a blight on the beautiful Santa Ynez Valley.
This leaves only the least desirable customers, the desperate losers, who come here on a bus, or crowded into old, unsafe autos, hoping to change their luck. We live on the street leading to the Casino and it is a daily parade of criminals into our otherwise lovely little valley.
This is what they said about taxes, bonds, the lottery, casinos, etc. What next? Carbon Credits?
Here in Bangor Maine, the new “racino” has penny and nickle slots. A sure sign of the type of clientel the casino hopes to attract.
We ARE truly doomed if the dumbest among us are running things......
Sadly, all the hard working Californians are going to have to leave and let the place sink. I don't see any possibility of waking up Hollywood and Sacramento to the realities of life.
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You should set-up a stand that sells 'lucky charms' (not the cereal).
Those folks who play LOTTO would buy'em....
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I don't think most people realize the bottom of the barrel types that patronize Indian Casinos. Lots of Government checks get spent in these places.
The last thing I want is a 1989 Chevette with bald tires and 5 illegal aliens stopping at my house.
ROFL!
Schwarzenegger has oversold every single thing he has ever promoted, including himself as a "leader."
Hype Hype Hype !
sadly, One can not govern on Q factor alone... not to mention having a Kennedy in each ear ..
I accidentally pulled into an Indian Casino parking lot a few years ago. I saw 100% low life’s, rolling unsteadily through the dirt lot in a simulanteously enebriated and extremely angry condition; All the more surprising, since it was only 9 in morning!
I was lucky to get out alive.
can you post here where you are getting all of your “facts”?
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