Dodd-Linked Casino Owners Given $54 Million in Stimulus Cash
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, June 17, 2010, 12:02 PM
More Hope, Change, Corruption…
The Indian Tribe that runs a Connecticut casino earning $1 Billion-Plus Per Year got a fat government check.
ABC News reported:
With the support of Sen. Chris Dodd, D.-Conn., the federal government has awarded $54 million to Connecticut’s politically well-connected Mohegan Indian tribe, which operates one of the highest grossing casinos in the U.S.
The tribe runs the sprawling Mohegan Sun casino, halfway between New York City and Boston, which earned more than $1.3 billion in gross revenues in 2009. Each tribe member receives a cut of the profits, a number a tribal official said was “less than $30,000″ per capita per year. The stimulus money is a loan from a U.S. Department of Agriculture rural development program that is meant to help communities of less than 20,000 people that have been “unable to obtain other credit at reasonable rates and terms and are unable to finance the proposed project from their own resources.”
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Andreas K. commented:
Reparations for what “evil Whitey” did to the “poor, innocent and spiritual, let’s not forget good looking First People.”
Which brings me back to this:
#1) DESCRIBE THE MAGICAL INNOCENCE
The Indians were infants, sometime violent and incontrollable, but with a magical innocence. They could cut bodies into pieces, rape women, kidnap and murder children, they still are good-looking playboys whose pictures are available everywhere. How about a picture of the Butcher of Minnesota (1,400 civilians murdered), Little Crow (Sioux), in your living-room? So nice!
#2) FIND THE GRIEF
Warning! It is the most important part of the gospel: find the grief. For that purpose, you have a virtual free-hand to seek “answers” through centuries. If Black Kettle’s tribe murdered Clara Blinn, it was probably because they feel angered about the Sand Creek Massacre, four years earlier, or the treaty of Fort Laramie, in 1861, or… well, the arrival of Colombus, in 1492.
#3) STICK TO GENERALITIES
Very important: do not cite names until you have explained the history of the tribe and of all the Indians (and, if you want, even the Aborigines in Australia or Vercingetorix in France). It is very important not to downplay your thesis by saying that only a few characters were involved in the story. Remember that the magical innocence of #1 needs generalities, not specificities. If Black Kettle’s warriors murdered civilians in 1868, call them “Cheyennes”. Or better: “Cheyenne young men”. Or the hit: “angry Cheyenne young men” (hop! you have the link with the grief above.)
#4) REJECT ALL THE REPORTS OF THE ARMY
The prosecutions of your heroic Indians always comes from the army. It is thus very important that you reject their claims with a very natural “of course, the army said that they were guilty!” Because no Indian knew how to write, almost every paper you will find will be written by army officials or the US government. How lovely it is: you can erase all the factual evidence with a few nonchalant words!
#5) MAKE THE INDIAN CUSTOMS THE CENTRAL ARGUMENT
Extremely important: use, and re-use moral relativism and multiculturalism. Make everyone remember that they are Whites and that they cannot – of course! – understand the amazing complexity of these amazing civilizations (do not explain what was amazing about these civilizations, because it will be very hard to find anything gorgeous. Stick to “evident” generalities. “Of course they were amazing!”). Everyone must understand how the tribes worked before “rushing to judgment” (you can also link this “cultural imperative” with the “grief” above). Moreover, you can add that actual American Indians, and nobody else, can understand what the rules are. Make strong conclusions: “If you do not know the rules, how can you condemn them? How can you stick to judeo-christian values when we deal with faaaaaar more complex tribal rules which tolerated mutilations, wife beating, kidnappings or gang rapes?”
#6) DENY ANY KIND OF RESPONSABILITIES
This last argument is linked with the Indian customs above. Deny any kind of individual responsability in any case. More important, deny any collective responsibility. According to the Indian customs, the chiefs could harbor terrorists and be peaceful and feed terrorists and be trustworthy and detain white hostages and be the innocent target of bloodythirsty White men. To get this complete amnesty, the chief just had to claim that he was peaceful. His own words are the most important piece of your defense.
The gospel (finished product):
How could anyone attack a spiritual, good-looking Indian who claimed to be good, who had no responsibilities whatsoever and whose own tribe was attacked by two Spanish sentinels two centuries before ? Gosh, don’t you have any soul?
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Orpheus commented:
That money should be going to the gulf, not to casinos.
Let’s get to the polls and make sure that’s the Last of the Mohegan handouts!
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Paul_______ commented:
Van Jones, SOBama’s buddy said, “give them the wealth, give them the wealth” and he meant, take from White people and give to the Indians and Blacks. SOBama said it during the campaign, “spread the wealth” but I guess nobody was paying any attention except to his skin color!!!!!
gus commented:
It’s a motherfu23ing slush fund.
We knew it then we know it now.
vagabond trader commented:
Hmmm,wonder how much the “impoverished” Mohegans are kicking back to Dodd.I know a few tribal members and they are quite prosperous. Free top of the line healthcare for life, 100% financed low interest mortgages and a 5 figure check every year.
Auntie Em commented:
So that was what that shout-out was all able. Transparency!
Ebayer commented:
“unable to obtain other credit at reasonable rates and terms and are unable to finance the proposed project from their own resources.”
They took in $1.3Billion dollars and had to get a Gov’t “loan” because they couldn’t afford to finance a project on their own?
What is this project that they need $54 Million for?
And what rates were they given by the Gov’t that weren’t available elsewhere?
Smoke Fire commented:
Chrissie is getting his going away present for when he leaves the Senate, and has to work for a living. LOL.
It appears that all of the members of the Peoples Democratic State of Connecticut supported this, and will undoubtedly be getting a kickback from the Mohegan’s. Now answer me this question. Why does the Mohegan Tribe, who are taking in tens of millions of dollars need a 54 million dollar infusion from the Federal Government?
daryl commented:
Buying elections on the installment plan, one taxpayer heist at a time
Buy your votes early and avoid the rush. Damned crooked bustards know that the only chance obama has at another term is if they can hold the House and Senate and they have the time to wash some of his first term off. Sort of like, “repackage the dude”, if you will.
archer52 commented:
He’s on the list.
Jaimo commented:
Maybe the money will go for the Mohegan Government Center that started last year and then was put on hold because of the economy.
donh commented:
Christopher Dodd is a King Pin of the United Automobile Workers Union , which recently used strong arm legal tactics to gain access to Connecticut Casino labor markets. All the house dealers and personnel at these indian casinos are now forced to join the UAW. Is it any wonder politcal cash has flowed into these “indian” casinos after the union mob took over all employment operations.
neomom commented:
My family is the descendants of a German Hessian and blackfoot Indians. I guess that explains why I was too drunk to achieve world domination. Dodds a thief. When we regain power, and one way or another we will, I want these people in jail.