the thing that rubs me the wrong way about the lavish spending and building of outlandish things such as an indoor ski slope isn't the things themselves. it's the fact that most of the population there is dirt poor and makes no money while the oil money family buy yet another gold plated vehicle. the other part of it is how they get their money. there was a study that showed that with all the oil money they make, they have still managed to spend so much that they are in debt. if the oil money even slowed to half, there would be a lot of oil men in serious finacial trouble trying to keep up with the loans they have out against their income. not to turn this into a war room topic but yeah, the total waste of giant sums of cash is a little annoying to me.