In reading today's Cleveland Plain Dealer it says:
Ohioans already spend $900 million-plus yearly in West Virginia, Michigan and Indiana casinos, according to gambling-industry consultants.
Then the article says:
With slots parlors at nine sites, Ohio can capture a big chunk of that money and generate up to $853 million yearly for college tuition and scholarships, says the Learn and Earn campaign, comprising Ohio’s seven racetrack owners and two Cleveland developers.
The $835 million is the possible result of the 30% of the profits from these 31,500 slot machines.
So if $900 million is being spent by Ohioans right now that means that not only would all of those Ohioans have to now gamble in Ohio but we would need to have two thirds as many as are currently gambling right now yearly to be able to have that $853 million for scholarships...That's a whole lotta gamblers...
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Not to mention, real gamblers don't play slots. Poker, blackjack, craps, or bust. Vote no on that issue.
Thanks for this post, Lisa Renee. I hope you don't mind if I link to it at some point in my "countdown."
Do, I would never forget Plantman.
Jill, of course you can anytime.
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Gambling. That is not unlike the process of selecting the elected officials. Sort of a crap shoot.
Kurt, I agree with you - the gamblers in Ohio are going to "Gamble" at these casinos, not sit down and have some machine empty there pockets leaving the player unable to make a move to better the odds. Voting no on this is already on my mind. Can't wait to see/hear the responses when this program falls flat - "If it wasn't for those anti-education people prior to the election - this program would of sky-rocketed and would of made so many kids happy".
This whole "Get Burned and Learn (too late)" scam is going to pass.
Instead of the commercials getting clearer, they're pushing this as the greatest thing since sliced bread.
They're burying the fact that a little payout now buys them a perpetual right, a monopoly, and tax-free revenues for-frickin-ever.
Ohioans, you are being played for suckers, wake up and smell the fraudulent lies for what they are.
I have no problem with gambling; I have a very real problem with the scam that is being perpetrated on those too lazy to look into the whole amendment.
Before you vote no, think of what Issue 3 might mean for adult daiper sales in Ohio. When slot players find machines that they perceive to be "lucky" the are reluctant to leave the machine to go to the bathroom, so some of them wear daipers when they go to the casino. More slot machines mean more adult daiper sales at your local drug store.
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