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Fair ~ River stage: 35.2 Rising Thursday, Mar. 18, 2010 |
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Speak OutRiverboat gambling
FOR every winner there is a loser. The gambling industry tries to sprinkle a sugarcoating of helping education or some other fine cause on the moldy bread of children going without food because a parent gambled away the paycheck. It is instructive to compare the courses, over the years, of Cairo where gambling was permitted and Cape Girardeau which prohibited it. Unfortunately, shady characters gravitate to the gambling business. The economic benefit of permitting gambling will, in the long run, become an economic blight. The sugar coating is the only way to hide the moral and economic barb of gambling's hook. We like Cape Girardeau the way it is without riverboat gambling. |
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Well said, Wheels.
I don't have a problem with people gambling in any way, shape or form.
But please don't ask for me to pay more taxes for your health care, housing, food or any other entitlement you may receive as a result of your irresponsibility.
The evil New World Order again? Freemasons? Secret meetings? Little black helicopters and tin foil hats? I prefer to be a sheeple...
I keep hearing the riverboat will bring undesirable people to Cape, has no one read the paper in the last few months? Just lately there has been robbing, child abuse, assault, shootings, and rape. Yet a riverboat will bring in more jobs and more revenue for more security and police. If your worried about the drinking try counting how many alcohol selling businesses there are in Cape.( I once counted 37). And if your worried about the gambling, BINGO!!
Damn! That's twice I've double posted!