Niagara Falls gambled on casinos.
But casinos operate on one principle: cheat or trick stupid people out of their money. A business model so faulty it can never be good, not in heaven, not on earth.
An enterprise meant to deceive people or get them into believing in luck instead of work, in magic instead of reality, in glamour instead of truth.
Hard truth is almost always found at casinos.
No city, nation or world can prosper with a concept like this; even Las Vegas is hurting and their model was always to ‘fleece’ outsiders: bring ‘em in smiling, entertain them and take their money.
Niagara Falls could hardly expect to compete.
Lastly, there is this racist, insane concept that a man born Seneca should have rights that Americans do not.
Why should a Seneca be able to legally own a casino, but if you, as an American, were to do so, you’d be jailed?
Go put a slot machine in your building and watch what happens.
Who thought of this?
Who tolerates a government that gives away land to foreigners who have more rights than we do?
If the Seneca Nation had a claim on Grand Island; if that were true and not some bogus, lawyered-up nonsense, then they should have been given Grand Island.
They shouldn’t have been given 50 acres in Niagara Falls.
Albany shouldn’t have traded Grand Island for Niagara Falls and made a Tribe superior to the local people.
A Seneca can operate gaming legally; can open hotels and restaurants (our main tourist businesses) without paying property tax, sales tax, hotel tax, and without building according to safety codes.
That advantage makes for an insurmountable edge on an unlevel playing field.
No wonder they are rich and Niagara Falls is poor and getting poorer.
No wonder the Seneca Niagara Casino and Hotel is glimmering and we look so shabby.
God bless a government that provides so ill for its own, and so well for strangers.
They gave 50 acres of Niagara Falls away and gave foreigners rights superior to the residents of the city.
Albany did this, and now the city is faced with a deficit. Does Albany come to the rescue?
May we, like the Senecas, become a Sovereign Nation.
And may Albany, along with its master, New York City, get a foreign owned casino and a 50-acre tax free zone right in the heart of their cities.
That would be justice indeed. |