Recently the Miami Herald did an expose' on the Florida Seminole Tribe who have been siphoning millions from those Florida retirees, displaced Cubans and "snow birds" via their casinos with facimile (class II) slot machines and high stakes Bingo games. The paper was prompted to investigate because the Seminoles (rather the now fractional descendants of the original tribe) just bought the Planet Hollywood resort and restaurant chain for a mere nine hundred million dollars. Well it wasn't just that, you see the tribe wants Florida and the Feds to let them open full-on, Las Vegas style, class III gambling casinos, so they can siphon even more money from the unsuspecting non-Indian gamblers who think they have any chance of actually winning more than a free trip to the buffet line. Their investigation took them to the gated mansions of the tribal government officials where gardeners, chauffeurs and maids worked dilligently to polish up the Mercedes and BMW's parked on circular driveways and to keep their multi-million dollar "teepees" looking as good as any estate you might find in Scarsdale or Purchase, New York. What the rewporters found out in their investigation was, not only was this tribe of "Indians" making tens of millions from those gambling casino profits, but also that they still recieved over seventeen million in federal welfare and grant monies every year. In this day and age when so many governments are crying poor how is it that the federal government is still pouring millions of non-Indian tax dollars down the Seminole money pit? What planet are these bungling bureaucrats from? Better still, what insanity prompted Congress to unleash unregulated Indian casino gambling on the rest of the country without regard for the safety, welfare and quality of life of the other 298 million Americans?
Friday, January 11, 2008
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I believe all this nonsense started with the Pequots in Connecticut. Congress created a huge hole for the rest of these so-called tribes to set up casinokeeping following the blueprint established by the Pequots. It seems to me that if law can be made - it can be unmade, and the place to go is back to where this all started - undo the bad legislation that has caused all this.
"What planet are these bungling bureaucrats from?"
They are from the:
"gambling-tribes-have-paid-
for-my-bitch-ass-10-times-over" planet. Either that, or Uranus.
I say shut 'em all down if they don't want to straighten out the way they do business! This is taxation without representation!
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