Quote Originally Posted by birdgirl73
Guess you've never heard of Steve Wynn. Or Kirk Kekorian. Or Donald Trump. The most interesting thing about the Indian casinos is that they're increasingly owned by Asian (mostly Malaysian) owners/investors and then they pay the tribes a fee. I just read about that last week in the NYTimes and on Bloomberg. Go ahead and put the guilt spin on billionaires, both American and Malaysian.

The key is the "fee". Casinos also help create poverty.


From that article you posted, the figure was a quarter million, not three-quarters. I did a quick check on Bethlehem real estate prices, and in that city that's a modest price. Heck, in your city, that's peanuts. And what does Christianity even have to do with that? Christian charities and organizations provide all sorts of services.
Carter is a "Born Again" type - one of the first of the modern politicians to bring that up. That alone was enough to make him look bad.



Why would you assume guilt trips? Why not just a concern for humanity in general borne of his caring about people who are less fortunate, having grown up during the Depression
Carter was in the upper class in the deep south, where Blacks had to use separate bathrooms, eat in separate restaurand, and suffer other indignities -many of which were much worse. His money has the blood of those people on it.

and seen the level of poverty he did in the Deep South?
Did he actually experience poverty for himself?
If you'd ever bothered to do anything other than criticize him,
I like to laugh at him, actually, to keep it in perspective.
you could easily find out he actually cares. You had ancestors who were no doubt slave owners, especially if some of them were among the first to land on Plymouth.
None of The Mayflower passengers owned Slaves. In fact, John Howland, one of my ancestors that came on the Mayflower, was an indentured servant to the man who was to be the Governor. I have in my possession numerous census records from the 18th and 19th century, and none of my ancestors listed on them owned slaves. There is a column for that, and the spaces were all blank. Many of my New England ancestors in Martha's Vineyard were Quakers, who were among the first to oppose slavery. Even if they hadn't opposed slavery, I didn't inherit any property, but Jimmy Carter is still a rich man living off his family's legacy of profit from the enslavement of human beings.
I did, too. So does a quarter of America. Your comments, as is so frequently the case, don't make sense.
Make sense now? If not, sorry.