Anti gambling, anti casinos

[Bob21]

Blob21 wrote in post # 70:

"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."


First, you want to ignore what I already told you that a good percentage of money won by AP's is re-invested through banks and financial institutions and is used to generate loans by the local economy.


I want to challenge your above quote as it pertains to a large section of the East coast that covers two decades. Specifically the two huge tribes on their own land located in the state of Connecticut and the agreement they have with the State. Both casinos give a large percentage I believe 25% of the slots profits and Zero percent for all table games revenue to the state. Now huge percentages of AP's who went and played and still are playing there played table games resulting in not a loss of a dime to the state due to table wins by AP's. The only money the state itself lost was and still is was to slot AP's and that also is somewhat debateable because when a machine is ready to hit it hits regardless of who is sitting there. So bottom line what you are saying Bob does not apply in all sections of the country.


BLob 21 again in post#70 wrote:


"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)."

That is how you look at it but it is still wrong and you know it. What casinos pay the government is considered an expense just like the electric bill. Part of the cost of doing business period.

Hey Bosox, I got to give you a shout out, you really try. Most the time I can’t figure out what you’re saying, but at least you fight back. I actually respect that! You’re not like your two deputies, tableplay and DGenBen, who run for the hills when they can see their guns (think brains) have no bullets.

You’re definitely Chief Forum Defective and there is nobody in your ballpark. I think your deputies have given up on the “gotcha” forum defective games. You’re probably going to have to run this show by yourself going forward.

As far as Kj, since he won't answer my questions on Stanford Wong, I expect he too has whimpered off. Kj’s silence most likely means I’m right and I am correctly quoting Stanford Wong. It’s good to know Stanford and I are on the same side of the coin on APing.

Bosox, you've got to remember I’m in a MORE exclusive club than Mr. Wong. He’s only in the Blackjack Hall of Fame, where they’ll let anybody in, including ploppies like Don Johnson. I’m in an exclusive club with Zee. We got much tighter standards than the BJ Hall of Fame. We aren’t going to let any ‘ol ploppy into our club.

Now back to your point Bosox. I get that APs reinvest some of the money they make from casinos. Welfare recepits also do the same thing, thus helping the economy. You’re still missing my point. As an AP, you did nothing of value to earn your money. That’s my point. At least the casino created entertainment when they made their money. That’s why I rate casinos over APs in the good guy/bad guy scale.

With this said, this is no slap in the face to APs. I’m one too. I try to win money from casinos too. When I retire, I plan to spend more time APing. I like casinos and I see nothing wrong with trying to win some money from casinos...but I also don’t think I’m doing anything of value when I do this.

Anyway, I like your fighting spirit Bosox. This is something that is lacking in the AP community. I really liked the way you’ve taken on Norm. You have some courage and you’ve made some good points in your recent post on BJTF. I was surprised Norm didn’t censor some of your posts. He’s censored some of mine so I don’t post on BJTF much anymore.

That’s one thing I really like about this site. Dan believes in freedom of speech and doesn’t censor people. If he did, he’d probably have censored and kicked the bubbling lunatic kj off this site a long time ago.