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Casinos in Kentucky?

by Jeff "Mario" Smith, Guerilla Reporter

February 23rd in the year of our Lord 2008

If you want your state 'gubbament cheese' crowd to legalize casinos so they

can get their hands on an alleged $500 Million, which means that Kentuckians have to lose at least $1.5 Billion, then don't show up in Frankfort on March 5th at 11:00 AM. See the ad for the Rally here! 

Anyone who believes that the corrupt gambling crowd from Vegas is going to be some sort of benevolent gifter of dollars and provider of jobs from heaven for Kentucky is dreaming.

If you don't see the game that the Beshear Administration is playing with the current "revenue shortfall" whining they are doing, then you don't realize that at the end of the Fletcher Administration we were allegedly operating with a surplus. Isn't it interesting that right when the Beshear Administration wants to sway Kentuckians to ask their legislators to approve casino gambling as a revenue machine, we are all of a sudden in the red, when we were in the black before Beshear took the reins? Do you think there may be some fuzzy math going on in Frankfort? Ya think?

The real costs of legalized gambling to the taxpayers are hidden by those who do not want the sheeple to know what they have done to their respective states by  going down the "gambling as revenue" road. Kentucky is already using taxpayer money to put up billboards and other advertising messages about help for addicted gamblers.

The Lottery, another scam whereby Kentuckians have to lose billions in order for the state to gain millions, was going to save us. It was going to save the all too often whining education establishment. It didn't. It is only 2.5% of our budget and education eats up half of our budget and wants more.

We all know that government is not transparent like it should be, that much is obvious. That much alone should make you not trust government. Where does all our money go? Do you know? Let me answer that for you. No! None of us do because there is no real government transparency in this alleged "free" Republic.

If you think that the cost of addicted gamblers is contained within their families, you need to go spend a few days in the civil and criminal courts in Kentucky and see these wretched people who have wrecked lives through gambling, and are in court due to stealing to support the habit of losing money, divorce, assault due to the anger of seeing their dreams gambled away, drunkenness from drowning their sorrows causing a host of other problems, property foreclosures, etc.

No, this issue isn't only negative to the lower classes fooled by the advertising and others stupid enough to make it a habit rather than just entertainment; it is a drain on taxpayers, and don't count on your legislators to make that easy for you to see. 

I am not against people doing as they wish with their money, but I am against government being in the business of gathering revenue through its citizens losing money in scams meant to entertain but are sold to them as a way to get rich. I am against my corrupt and oppressive government having yet more of our money to misappropriate, and getting bigger in the process. It is time to shrink Frankfort, not enlarge it.

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