{"id":3751,"date":"2010-02-02T12:12:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T20:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3751"},"modified":"2010-02-02T12:12:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T20:12:52","slug":"equal-opportunity-exploitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/equal-opportunity-exploitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Equal opportunity exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nice to know that in their drive to soak the rich, our political representatives don&#8217;t neglect to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/30\/nyregion\/30gamble.html?scp=1&amp;sq=charles%20v.%20bagli%20gambling&amp;st=cse\">soak the poor <\/a>(and stupid) as well:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[New York] Gov. <a title=\"More articles about David A. Paterson.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/p\/david_a_paterson\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">David A. Paterson<\/a> announced Friday that he had selected a casino operator for the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens. It would be the ninth racetrack casino to open in the state since 2001. . . .\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And there is yet <a title=\"Article about the push for a casino\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.timesunion.com\/capitol\/archives\/11873\/schumer-urges-interior-department-to-grant-catskills-casino\/\">another push<\/a> by Senator <a title=\"More articles about Charles E. Schumer.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/s\/charles_e_schumer\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Charles E. Schumer<\/a>, Governor Paterson and elected officials in the Catskills to allow Indian tribes to build two Las Vegas-style casinos in Monticello, 90 miles northwest of Manhattan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nice to know that in their drive to soak the rich, our political representatives don&#8217;t neglect to soak the poor (and stupid) as well: [New York] Gov. David A. Paterson announced Friday that he had selected a casino operator &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/equal-opportunity-exploitation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3753,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions\/3753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}