I Stand Against Table Games

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Let me get this out up front.  I am voting against table games.   

Ah – you lose.  I’m not a “right wing religious extremist” standing against table games on moral grounds while I lobby to keep BINGO tax-free.  I’ve been to casinos in Atlantic City and I’ve been to Tri-State and I’ve been to Wheeling.  You can count the number of times on one hand.

 

I stand against table games in West Virginia because our government is stupid.  Every year and every election cycle we are told that things will be better as long as we vote for certain people and vote for proposed ballot initiatives.  On just the issue of gambling alone we were ‘promised’ by Governor Bob Wise that the gray machines would be reduced, restricted, and regulated.  Now we have Mimi’s every mile or so in addition to the mom and pop’s that have them in the back room of their stores.  But this administration is different.  Yeah, right.

 

I stand against table games in West Virginia because our citizenry is stupid.  They keep listening to the bull sh*t that splashes out of the mouths of politicians about how a vote for them or a vote in favor of the ballot initiative will make things better.  Their politician is a good politician but the others are worthless.

 

I stand against adding table games in West Virginia because of the high rate of seniors (who are more vulnerable to being scammed according to state attorney general), because we rank at the bottom in citizens who have attended college (gambling is most threatening to the uneducated), because our economy stinks (poor people will spend a higher percentage of their household income on lotteries, slots and table games) and there has been no plan presented on what our government will do once our neighboring states bring slots and table games online.

 

Everyone knows that there will be state programs developed with the windfall that table games will initially generate.  Everyone knows that state programs are rarely, if ever, discontinued.  So what is the plan after the surge?  Where is the money going to come from once the newness wears off and masses of people quit frequenting our “resorts” and now go to our neighboring states to spend their money?

 

We need to take a stand against the “We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it” mentality of state and local government.  We need some sort of plan for that bridge.  We’ve flown by the seat of our pants for too long and we keep getting farther and farther behind.

 

I also stand against table games because I do not believe the government should be doing everything for us.  We have a responsibility to educate, employ, house and care for ourselves and our families. 

“Mountaineers are always free!”  Not if you are addicted to government programs.

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