Buffalo Boy's Blog
Giving You More Than Just My Two Cents
Stop Getting In The Way
Its not often that a business or organization comes along in Buffalo or any city for that matter and actually wants to build a $300+ million dollar building. Thats exactly what the Seneca's have been trying to do. That and offer thousands of jobs to a job starved community.
However, there is a group that has been fighting this tooth and nail that thinks that Buffalo would be better off without thousands of new jobs and without a brand new building and tourist attraction that could help to jumpstart the economy around the harbour projects.
Today, the Seneca's got some good news from the National Indian Gaming Commission, approving a gaming ordinance for the Seneca Creek Casino. Now if only these bastards who are trying to block the thing would get the hell out of the way and go get jobs.
Its one thing to oppose something, you don't like it, fine, no one is putting a gun to the people who are part of this group forcing them to go to the casino. Just don't go. But when you are part of a group, whose funding has come from other casinos, namely some Las Vegas Casino's back the hell off and let this project go through. They call themselves Citizens for a Better Buffalo or something, well to me, a better Buffalo is one with a new $300 million building and 1200 new jobs, the positives in this case far outweigh the negatives, but thats just my two cents.
Mike, research into every casino that's ever been built in the northeast, Turning Stone, Foxwoods, etc. and ask the community how much the casino has really helped. They are all-in-one entertainment centers, they control the gaming, the golf, and the grub. Local businesses will lose out because hey, why leave the casino when they've got the steak buffet line right next to the video poker?
I'm not against the casino, or for it, I could care less, but I don't like the reasons that are used to support it and I tend to agree with the reasons people have for opposing it. That said, if I can go play blackjack 20 minutes away vs. driving to Seneca Niagara, I'll be there to break ground on day 1. But my personal convenience to enjoy a bad habit doesn't outweight the fact that nothing good really will come out of the casino.