[Roscoe]

"Indian Tribes use gaming first and foremost for tribal government programs, community infrastructure, charity, and aid to local governments. Where Indian Tribes have suffered the highest teen suicide rates in the country, Indian gaming has built schools, funded colleges scholarships, and given our children hope for a brighter future. The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, for example, built two schools and their high school graduates are now fluent in both Ojibwe and English. Where our people suffer epidemic problems of diabetes, heart, and liver disease, Indian gaming is building health clinics, dialysis centers, and fitness centers."

http://www.pechanga.net/press_release/Letter%20From%20The%20National%20Indian%20Gaming%20Association%20to%20Time%20Magazine.htm

[demnomo]

Go to the Minnesota Star. Do a search under Indian Gaming.
Yeah, Indian Gaming has done some good things, but the bad (increased alcoholism, gambling addictions, organized crime, drugs, greed, in-fighting amongst Indians for power and control of the resources, along with rising animosity from surrounding non-Indian communities who have to deal with gambling garbage) far outweigh the benefits.

Organized crime benefits. Read the Minnesota Star articles going back ten years. Read the Boston Globe exposes. Read the recent TIME and US News magazines of last year. Those articles detail the evil and greed that consumes the casino proponents.

I'm guessing that you must be a casino employee or a gambler who believes that Indian Gaming is swell and doesn't hurt anybody nor does it violate Constitutional principles. IMHO, Indian Gaming--in its current form--is not a positive thing in the long run for Indians or non-Indians.