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.”
Lynn Malerba, chairwoman of the Mohegan Tribal Council, defended the award of the stimulus loan to the tribe, and said that every member of Connecticut’s seven-member Congressional delegation except one had provided assistance in securing the funds. “The whole Connecticut delegation, I think aside from [Rep.] Jim Himes, who was traveling, sent a letter in support.”
I think the answer to this is to raise taxes…yes, we definitely we need higher taxes.
Oh please, how can you argue that one party is better than the other. Is there a difference anymore or has there ever been? As far as I am concerned they are all corrupt. Fire them all!!!
#40. That type of thinking is what got us into this financial mess to begin with, or don’t you remember. If you don’t qualify for a loan, there is a reason for that.
With a job supplementing the 30K given, you should be able to live comfortably Unless you live beyond your means, and that’s a personal problem. throwing money at a problem does not work.
I don’t get the hypocrisy. The Republicans are crying the Government is not doing enough to alleviate the recession. Yet, when they do something that will create jobs all the tea baggers come out of the wood work spouting crazy things about gifts to casinos.
I don’t know the details of this, the article didn’t spell them out. What is apparent though is the headline and comments are wrong.
Does accuracy mean anything to the right wing nuts?
#43. Hah! No surprises here. Partisan idiot.
Do I really have to point out what you people call a democracy is a colossal failure? Power corrupts. Always.
I suppose you idiots would rather see the $54 million go to something less profitable? The grant is not using YOUR tax dollars at all, it’s using tax dollars that the casino is pumping into the community already which makes it’s way back to Washington in taxes. The money also keeps businesses around this casino in business. Media just loves to jerk all you pea brains around with this lie of “your tax dollars” and you all buy it. It’s so laughable.
#46.
wow,
SOMEONE THAT READ THE ARTICLE.
I havnt posted here from a number of reasons.(I dont think I did).
But, I will say something..
YOU ARE BEING TESTED.
READ THE HEAD LINES..
READ THE ARTICLE..
OR BE STUPID.
There are to many they read a head line and the Shorts, but NOT what is being put in the Article..
NOT being critical of what is SAID and happening..
A heading of, “Dog Slaps girl”
would make you all say? COOL a Dog with thumbs.
Please, start READING the articls and MORE THEN 1, opinion of the incident.(Which is hard to do sometimes).
THEN,
follow up[ and SEE if the correct thing happened. IF’ the money went to THOSE IN NEED, or into POCKETS of AHOLES.
The government takes your money, then let’s you beg for some of it back. That is, after they get their taste.