Posted on 03/31/2011 5:15:40 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
I watched a tv interviewer recently talking to a woman who had just purchased $20 in lotto tickets. She told him that the lottery was basicaly "unfair". Interviewer asked her, "how so"?
She told him that "rich people had an unfair advantage, in that they could buy all the tickets they wanted".
Next - a subsidy to the "poor" to buy their fair share of lottery tickets.
Good paying jobs, illegals working in the kitchen and maids clean rooms, etc, etc.
LA casinos spend a ton of money lobbying TX legislators to keep gambling out of TX.
I live less than 100 miles from an Indian Reservation casino and go there occasionally and the parking lot is 95% full of TX license plates.
If we ever get gambling in TX, Louisiana's will probably dry up.
You may be right that casinos and legalized gambling are bad news, but let me have my online poker at least, dangit!
I hate it too, and give it the same one finger salute I give to obummer whenever I hear one of his sound clips.
The commercial is so obnoxious and obviously over-reaching, that I think they will suffer a backlash of Texans feed up with the dishonest tactics of the gambling industry. Of course they are tending to run the ads on music stations, not talk radio stations. Guess they figure the target audience won’t see through their B.S.
I’m kind of surprised that Gov. Jendal hasn’t started running radio spots countering those phony ads, apologizing to Texans for the gambling industry falsely besmirching Louisiana’s good name and trying to drive a wedge between the neighboring states, who have shared a long history of goodwill.
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