The Glade 4.0

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4 times An out of state gaming company has tried to get a Casino Monopoly in Ohio via constitutional ammendment. 4 times voters have told them to take a hike. Yet here they are again.

It's getting old and it bothers me they are sliding it in on an off year when they think no one (or less people) are watching.

I'm against gambling as means of tax revinue (it generally targets the poor), and I think giving a company a monopoly by constitutional amendment is wrong.

They are also billing this as a jobs creation issue, but there are no guartenees that an Ohio contractor will do the building, and likely many of the specialized positions may go to workers who are currently out of state. (I don't know how many experienced Black jack dealers live in ohio right now. I'd probalby guess not many.) The jobs likely to go to current locals are going to be the fractional +tips service jobs.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Every election cycle this issue is like a contest to see which side can lie and distort the issue more blatantly.

I'm more concerned about the fact that someone thinks casinos are Constitutional Amendment material than I am about the pros and cons of the casino. If Ohio ever amends this in it'll be hell to get rid of it.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

When they opened the casino's in Detroit they hired a lot of local dealers. They then flew them out to Vegas for training. Friend of a friend is working down there, she tells us she makes pretty good money.

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Raell Kromwell

Work up a petition that forbids the State of Ohio granting a monopoly to any business, tie it into the anti-trust laws already in place.

This is a classic example of the 'if we keep trying eventually they will say yes' strategy.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Your ideas are intriguing, mike.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Down here it's secession, apparently.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

I'm in definite agreement on all fronts.

I'm indifferent to casinos. I certainly am not a gambler (five bucks a couple times a year with some friends on poker notwithstanding), and can appreciate how the industry as a whole tends to prey upon certain demographics and its own brand of addict, but there are local enough options that I don't believe Ohio's permission or banning of casinos will alleviate the pressure and opportunity for these people to cause themselves problems. I'm also not keen on the government being the solution for lack of personal responsibility.

But when it comes down to the bottom line, I despise government-supported monopolies, and placing gambling in the Constitution even more so, let alone enshrining both simultaneously.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Ditto Kaffis and DE.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

I live in Vegas.

Gambling's kind of a big deal here.

I fully support a government mandated ban on all gambling everywhere that's not Las Vegas. Including lotteries. And Indian casinos. And internet gambling.

You get the picture.

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Holy shitsnacks!