A deal you can’t refuse
It's not a casino - it's magic
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Back to my Magic Widget analogy. So you’ve finally been convinced to consider taking a Magic Widget but want to check on a few things. You want to make sure that the money you spend has the value you expect. Woah – hold on I say – that’s just crazy talk. If you want my Magic Widget you have to take it sight unseen and just trust that it’s everything I say it is. That’s what House Speaker DeLeo is asking us all by refusing to have an independent cost/benefit analyis of casinos in Massachusetts. Isn’t that a bit like buying a house but the seller won’t allow a home inspection?
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This is the sort of thing that always accompanies casinos. When Middleboro was being intimidated and threatened with a casino in 2007 we were told that the casino was coming whether we wanted it or not and that we would get nothing if we didn’t sign a deal with the Mashpee Wampanaog. An insider to the negotiations told me recently that when Middleboro wanted to bring in a professional gaming attorney, the tribe’s representatives said they would walk away from the deal if we did. Well, we did, they didn’t walk, but that’s not the point. Can you imagine entering into a multi-million dollar agreement and being told that the deal was off if you brought in a professional attorney? That’s what happened here folks and it’s anyone’s guess why Middleboro didn’t go running in the opposite direction.
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Money to influence lawmakers – Check
Refusal to do cost benefit analysis – Check
Rush to introduce legislation – Check
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Hope that’s what you want folks – cause that’s what DeLeo is going to give you.
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Enjoy.
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Geepers Wally, this sounds strangely like what the dems want from us with the so called health care reform bill. Don’t read the details (Trust me) ya right. I remember a story about a scorpion…..
How so? The bill is there for anyone to read and the numbers vetted by the Congressional Budget Office. I don’t see the parallel.
But who will read it. and, or comprehend it.
The CBO does estimates based on legislation intent and projected revenues. The key word is “estimate” and that is only as reliable as the information they are presented and the economic and social trends that proposed legislation is based on. For example national deficit figures of pre Obama years differ greatly with what has happened due to excessive government debt in the last Bush year and this current administration.
Jim – You’re barking up the wrong tree with Bumpkin. Hes party-blind and’ll never find anything wrong with somthing a democrat proposes. Don’t bother trying to point out the deficiencies in the health-care bill. Stick to local politics. Bumpkins a little more open minded when the issues aren’t party driven.
“Isn’t that a bit like buying a house but the seller won’t allow a home inspection?”
Actually it is, except the seller insists a home inspection isn’t necessary because the house is available for viewing on the Internet, so it’s not like you’re not actually seeing it. Meanwhile, a paid home stager has made the house look like a million bucks while a paid professional photographer has taken photos at the best angles. But the buyer insists that this isn’t a substitute for a home inspection. The seller says, well, it’s good enough for you.
That’s what it’s like.
Obviously, I watch a lot of HGTV. And one of my favorite shows is this one where Mike Holmes and his crew go around fixing the giant construction disasters other construction crews do to homes. There will be no Mike Holmes to fix Massachusetts if DeLeo and the rest of the brain trust build this addition. We have to do it right the first time.
On this page you will find the names and contact information for the Joint Committee for Economic Development and Emerging Technologies. Please take moment today and jot off a quick reminder to this committee that they need to do their due diligence in this matter.
@Barking up the wrong tree Party blind? Quite the opposite. The Gingrich “Contract With America” crew opened my eyes in a big way to the Republican party – whose philosophy I can summarize with “Oppose anything the Democrats propose whether it is good for the country or not”. I was further awakened by Bush and his Neo-Con stormtroopers running off on misadventures that lessened my countries security, squandered our young blood, and wasted my money. And when that wasn’t enough, Bush and his puppetmasters destroyed my personal freedom with the Un-Patriotic Act and oversaw the biggest increase in government since the depression. Today’s batch of Republicans is continuing the fine tradition and have officially become the party of “No”. Rush Limbaugh wants Obama to fail. Joe Wilson shouted out “you lie” to the President during an address to Congress. The right wing innuendo that Hillary had Vince Foster murdered. Then we have GOP senator Jim Mint wanting to kill healthcare to sabotage Obama’s presidency.
No my eyes are wide open. And I’ll support a Republican when the GOP shows that they’re worthy of my support – because for the last 25 year(at least) they haven’t been.
Party of small government and personal freedom?… Gimme a break.
You’ve just provided me with all the evidence I need to back up my claims.
No where did I say that Republicans can do no wrong. Neither did I say that Democrats are always wrong.
But you were ready with a list of wrongdoings by Republicans. Not once in your little tirade did you criticize a Democrat.
And that’s what we call party-blind.
Give you a break? Until you are equally aware of what our elected leaders are doing wrong, regardless of thier political affiliations, you are the most dangerous kind of voter – a man armed with an opinion and little else.
The health care bill was deep sixed by the actions current administration. The sentiment in this country is quite clear on that issue and to not give credence to it is a rather myopic view. Why rehash it since it was a clear failure on the part of an inexperienced president who continues to flounder. The sabotage was self induced. Unfortunately he read his election victory as a personal mandate when the reality was it was a repudiation of another failed presidency and an continuing inactive Congress. Maybe the recent election defeats across the country will actually make Obama realize the party of “no” exists in clear response to his actions and the Republicans will attempt to actually formulate a legitimate response to the flawed and failed Democrats. I just wish the Republicans displayed the same level of fiscal and legislative responsibility during the Bush administration However, I do not view this sudden awakening anything more than an attempt to return to power and screw up – again. I seriously doubt either party is capable of restoring any faith on the part of the electorate. Maybe a viable third party will surface?
As far as Bush and his adventurous tactics in Iraq and Afghanistan it seems the current administration is clearly intent on following exactly the same path with an expanded role of 30,000 more troops and who knows what else I the works. I do not rule out adventurism in the Middle East with Iran as a potential target unless the administration will let Israel do that for them.
The increase in government goes unabated and the current administration is intent on expanding government and piling on debt that has never been seen before. The legacy of the current generation will to leave a nation economically worse off than when they found it. A sad commentary for two failed presidencies and a Congress that has proved to be totally inept no matter who runs the show.
@Barking up the wrong tree
I fail to see how listing my issues with the GOP makes me party blind.
I notice that your attacks are personal against me(party blind, dangerous) whereas mine are general about Republican party leadership. You stated “No where did I say that Republicans can do no wrong. Neither did I say that Democrats are always wrong”. At no time did I make any claim or representation of what you said or didn’t say except for the “party blind comment” and followed up with specifically why I take issue with the GOP since the Rush/Gingrich days.
I have plenty of issues with the Democratic party but view them as a much better choice overall for me. I hated bailout 1(bush). I also hated the subsequent Obama bailouts.
Since Gingrich IMO, the Republicans are more interested in torpedoing Democrats than leading. That’s my issue with them, that’s why I stopped voting for them, and won’t again until I see some change.