nypost.com — Talk about winning the jackpot! Thanks to retiring Senator Chris Dodd one of the highest grossing casinos in the country (earning more than $1.3 billion in gross revenues in 2009) received a 3% government loan. Bailout=Shush Fund. Your tax dollars at work.
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netantJun 21, 2010
Connecticut taxpayers who voted for Dodd SIX years ago, got 54 million loan for a construction project. Technically, they didn't get screwed.Its the US taxpayers that directed the USDA to lend money for agricultural projects that got screwed. And even then, they didn't really get screwed if they get back the return from the loan they made.No, its voting for Lieberman that screws them and the rest of the country. He's the one of the biggest reasons there is no public option on the health insurance bill, or more "universal" coverage.
scottamusJun 22, 2010
Still don't understand why the casino couldn't bankroll it themselves.
hillsfarJun 22, 2010
Actually I'm a registered Republican who voted for Ron Paul and Tom Campbell in 2008, along with Obama later that year. You'll also see from my comments that I'm libertarian and fiscal conservative.
magus_melchiorJun 22, 2010
@egoideal: Actually, they want to roll back child labor laws and have them work in sweatshops.
bjornskiJun 23, 2010
@jthesaintWhy don't you help your local economy like you suggest everyone else do it, and go spend your money gambling?
bjornskiJun 23, 2010
People who receive social welfare typically spend nearly 100% of it in the local economies where they live, helping support much more than just helping some company write off the cost of some research for a plant they'll build in China, to employ Chinese workers to build products to ship back to the US and sell to unemployed people.
bjornskiJun 23, 2010
@Gordon2108That's very true. Nowhere in the constitution does it say "America is a capitalist country".