Originally Posted by BoSox View Post
Originally Posted by Bob21 View Post
Originally Posted by smurgerburger View Post
Bob's arguments seem very strange to me.

He concedes all of the allegations of dirty tricks by casinos, but is angry that people blame casinos for these actions, because casinos exist to make money and anything done legally to make money is ok?

This is a particularly strange attitude for a conservative Christian. He must be a great fan of abortion clinics which are both legal (for now) and typically non-profit I believe.
You’re missing my point smurgerburger. I have never conceded casinos use “dirty tricks”. Where did you get that? I said casinos do the same thing every other business does. They use marketing to try to sell more product to the customers. They use loyalty programs, and other marketing tools. All companies do this. I do not see this as “dirty tricks”. Apperantly you do.

I’ve said many times I try to keep casinos out of my local community. I fault our government for allowing casinos to operate. Governments, state and local, are why casinos exist. Governments know the weaker members of society (the one liberals label as “addicts”) will be negatively impacted when they let casinos in, but they still approve them. That should tell you something about our government, which is a reflection of us, since we’re a democracy.

I will not fault a casino for doing what it is intended to do, which many APs don’t understand. One more time for you since you appeared to miss it: A casino’s business model is to extract money from people by giving them entertainment through negative EV games. It’s that simple. Since casinos make a lot of money, people most enjoy this experience since they keep coming back.

For all intent and purposes the government itself created the weaker members of society "your words" that you talk about Bob. I will describe it as a lower class of people that became addicted by a complete dependancy on the governments welfare policies. All started by the democratic party under Lyndon Johnson's term a complete failure, just to win elections. Now it is a vicious cycle with the combination of lottery sales and gaming establishments recouping moneys that the government receives a big share and hands out to generation upon generation of welfare addicts. I blame the Democratic Party for all of this bullshit.


The Boz sumed up perfectly with the picture the slimy underhanded casino perspective in post #620. I had seen many of those type signs in Vegas in the mid eighties and nineties when I went often.
You and I are on the same page on this one Bosox. It’s the Democrats and liberals who have screwed up this country and developed a dependent underclass, which most the times keeps them elected. They want people to think government is the solution to all their problems, but government most the time is the problem.

Look at the states that let casinos in first. It’s mostly the liberal states. The conservative states like Texas have tried to keep them out, but it’s only a matter of time before every state legalizes casinos.