When I said that opposition to legalized gambling was religiously based, I wasn't just offering a theory. Today's article in the paper explains exactly where the religiously based opposition centers itself... on the claims of one guy!
Conversely, that same article reveals that the basis for Governor Patrick's side of the Casino issue is based pretty much on the learned effluvium of yet another... one guy!
This is how the nanny state works, pumping the public full of irrelavent information on cooked up issues that have nothing to do with the agenda. The only agenda with the casino issue is summed up pretty nicely in that article, too.
Here's the money quote:
“The people who want gambling are the promoters, and the legislators are in an odd position,” he argued. “They have someone standing in front of them saying, ‘If you let us have a casino, we will give you tax revenue.’ ”
That quote, interestingly enough, is from the religiously based opposing authority, Earl Grinolis. Just as notable, the authority being used for the other side of this issue, Clyde Barrow [how ironic], isn't even particularly in favor of casinos or legalized gambling.
If the powers that be want to impress me, they could get their asses in gear to re-regulate the insurance and banking industries, which have ended up fleecing the public to such an outrageous extent that it threatens to crash our entire economy at this point. Talk about a fixed game precipitating social ills... insurance and banking is so far out of control now that it makes pre-war organized crime look like a bunch of amateurs!
In this state, the insurance mafia has gotten their fingers so deeply into the government coffers that it's now against the law if you DON'T buy their product!
Having a casino in Massachusetts is the least of our problems.
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