"Indians, at least the ones with the land and leverage to set up casinos, are raking in great honking piles of money, playing Enron with their political checkbooks, coining new millionaires every month � in short, acting like the all-American capitalists we always said we wanted them to become.

All the gold coaxed out of the California earth in the Gold Rush amounted to maybe $10 billion, which is something close to two years' take in Indian gambling. Greed stole their patrimony then; greed may give it back to them now. Sweet, isn't it? Sa-weet."

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Patt Morrison: Oh, for the Bad Old Days When Gambling Was Illegal (The Los Angeles Times 6/23)
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