Casino in Cbus (Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo: 2009, to rent, house)

[rjd1650]

What are your feelings on casinos in Ohio, especially one in Columbus?

[NewToCA]

Negative, I refused to sign a petition a few years ago about establishing casinos and using the funds for higher education.

[OSUGUY87]

Originally Posted by NewToCA

Negative, I refused to sign a petition a few years ago about establishing casinos and using the funds for higher education.

Whats your reasoning?

I'm for them!

[wGoshen]

Normally I would be against them, but it's needed to full the budget gap.

[NewToCA]

Originally Posted by OSUGUY87

Whats your reasoning?

I'm for them!

I think it is a really bad idea to make casino type gambling so available. Though I understand why many folks favor it, I have seen too many folks, and families, ruined through gambling losses.

Regarding this being a budget cure, please keep in mind that we have a boatload of casinos out here in California, and we are still having substantial difficulties. In fact, today, they announced they are no longer going to fund the "meals on wheels" program in Sacramento.


http://www.worldcasinodirectory.com/...ia/casino-list

That means cuts to senior nutrition programs including Meals on Wheels and sites where seniors who aren't homebound can go to get a meal. The county delivers 1,300 meals a day to area seniors and operates 24 dining sites, all of which could be eliminated.

http://bulletin.aarp.org/states/ca/2...me_unions.html

[Zippy7fo]

terrible idea....

[MissingIndiana]

I think Columbus is a large enough city that there should be other options for reviving it's economy. This isn't one of the little Ohio River towns like Rising Sun, IN or Vevay, IN that has very few opportunities for bringing in more money. Although I have seen casinos benefit these smaller communities, I don't think it's the safest thing to rely upon to supplement a budget.

Additionally, if the plan includes also putting casinos in Cleveland, Cincy, and Toledo wouldn't you think the 'market' for casinos might start getting saturated? Detroit really isn't that far from Toledo and it already has casinos. As bad as Detroit may be, don't you think it would still be a bigger draw for people than Toledo? I also don't know a ton of people in Indiana who are going to drive all the way to Cincy to gamble when they have casinos all along the Ohio river as well as near Louisville and the French Lick Resort in south central Indiana. It just seems like a casino in Columbus is only going to be targeting the people from Columbus.

[Seafood Guy]

No way. It brings with it poverty, it'll disrupt families by enabling compulsive addiction. It creates low level paying jobs. Gambling in a casino is no different than playing the lottery. It's just a tax on the poor. Everyone is always hoping that this last roll of the dice is their ticket out. That this is the last day they'll ever have to work.

Casinos in Las Vegas add the entertainment aspect of various shows with singers, magicians, etc. People fly out there to be entertained for a weekend. More and more each day, humans are becoming dumber, don't use common sense, and have no self control. The casinos can pick up and go after being here for 20 years. The people it will damage financially is here to stay.

We don't need 3,000 jobs that pay $8 an hour. If you go to Argosy/Hollywood casino just once, you'll see how it's predominately filled with lower to lower middle class people.

This would be a band aid for the budget gap. There could be a surplus of $500 billion today, and 3 years later it'll be gone. The local and state governments need to reign in on their spending and learn how to control it before they get any more money. Think of any friend you have that is really broke and always barely scraping by. A church could give him or her $10,000, and I guarantee you it'll be spent in two weeks.

[Seafood Guy]

Originally Posted by wGoshen

Normally I would be against them, but it's needed to full the budget gap.

So if you had a daughter, it'd be OK to prostitute her for an hour to a pedophile because you needed money to pay your electric bill?

[wGoshen]

Originally Posted by Seafood Guy

So if you had a daughter, it'd be OK to prostitute her for an hour to a pedophile because you needed money to pay your electric bill?

How is that even remotely similar to the issue? If you wanted a good example, it would be to rent out rooms in your house so the wealthy landlords next door don't get all the rent money that you desperately need.

Ohio has been too stubborn to host casinos for years, and it has cost the state billions of dollars. I wouldn't want to live next to one, but it needed to be done. You have entire school districts and police forces that are already stretched too thing that are going dissolve away if we don't find some cash inflow.