Why, Spain, of course.
American billionaire, casino mogul and Republican donor Sheldon Adelson has a new project: a $35 billion gambling megacity in Europe. He has chosen debt-ridden Spain as the location for "EuroVegas," which is expected to bring up to 250,000 much-needed jobs.
But many Spaniards are divided over whether they want casinos in their backyard.
Adelson recently touched down in his private helicopter in the Madrid suburb of Alcorcon, where wind whips across empty lots and half-built apartment blocks. The area has been down on its luck since the housing collapse, and one-third of its residents are unemployed.
On this land, Adelson envisions a glittering gambling city, to rival Las Vegas — complete with 36,000 hotel rooms, 18,000 slot machines and three golf courses.
Unemployed residents like 28-year-old Ruben Alvarez say it's like a mirage in the desert — almost too good to be true.
"If it's true and they really bring 250,000 jobs here? Imagine that. Things would definitely improve here if people had work. It would let people breathe a sigh of relief," he says. "But we'll have to see if it's true."
Turning Madrid into Vegas? Gosh, we should elect Republicans like Mitt Romney so we can make sure Adelson gets a nice fat tax cut as a reward so he can continue to create hundreds of thousands of jobs not in the United States.
And remember, with Mitt Romney warning us Wednesday that we'll end up like Spain if it's such an awful, bankrupt Socialist hellhole with no future and crushing taxes and a moribund economy (and America is super awesome and stuff) is anyone in the political press going to ask why Romney's biggest single donor about to invest in a $35 billion casino city smack in the middle of the capital of Madrid rather than in America?
Wouldn't hold your breath waiting on that particular answer.
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