Anti gambling, anti casinos

[Bob21]

No. Government isn't bad. Government provides a license and also provides checks and balances on both casinos and players. It's the FEDERAL government which regulates Indian casinos because gaming is now a federal jurisdiction. I'm surprised no one has mentioned that.

APs aren't bad guys either. They play in casinos to the best of their abilities within the law.

Casinos aren't bad either as long as they also operate under the appropriate laws and regulations.

Bob21 why must anyone be "bad"?

Agreed! I’m an AP too. My point is if your going to call casinos “bad guys”, then the government and APs are “bad guys” too. If you were looking a pecking order on where the three entities land on the “bad” scale, I’d rate them in the following order worst to best:

1) Government
2) AP
3) Casino

We already knew how the blob would rate them. No surprise there.


Now I would go with :


1 Casinos

2 Government

3 If I have to, AP's

Of course the choice of choosing between 1, and 2 for the top spot is difficult as you can not get much lower than the Government itself but what puts casinos in the top spot is a totally complete lack of compassion, and a streight forward onesided vision. Bob you said in an earlier thread that a degenerate gambler may lose their paycheck in a casino, but the welfare dept. will issue him another one and that part is true. The casino in turn may buy you a free lunch period.


Now some AP's including myself are in fact are real cheap on tipping dealers "strictly as a matter of principle" but did you know that many of these same AP's "including myself" are generous with worthwhile charities. Surprised Bob?

Hey Bobo, here’s why I rated casinos better than APs.

The casinos are providing value to society by giving communities entertainment and revenue for state and local governments.

APs are providing no value to society when they win their money from casinos. They are basically hurting local economies by indirectly extracting revenue from state and local governments.

I think you called APs cockroaches. I’ve always preferred to calls us parasites. Probably because I’ve always had a higher opinion of parasites than cockroaches, but that’s just me.

I want to be clear an AP is not “bad”, just as a welfare recipient is not “bad”. What they are both doing is legal. One gets their money directly from the government, while the other one gets their money indirectly from the government from our government’s voluntary tax centers run by private businesses (casinos).

By the way, you have some interesting “principles”, stiffing dealers on their income. Like or not, part of a dealer’s pay is dependent on tips. My “principles” don’t allow me to stiff people working in tip related jobs. I tip and support quite a few charities, as well as my church. Does that disqualify me from being an official AP?