This guy will be in charge before too long.
Posted on 12/22/2013 4:40:30 PM PST by RKBA Democrat
I’m looking at Chicago for a big city to fall but there are a lot of smaller cities ready to tumble.
I can’t remember which but either Mobile Alabama or Jackson Mississippi recently elected a black nationalist mayor and promptly hired one of Detroit’s famed black nationalists. (Kwame Kenyatta) I’d say that city is gonna go down fast.
It certainly is the most deserving.
I love Deadwood too. I have a friend who’s family own Saloon # 10. The casino I like is the Midnight Star
South Jersey is filled with retirement villages. The buses run all day back and forth to Atlantic City. I know from experience....my mother was one of those people on the bus. The city is a ghetto and don’t wander too far off the Boardwalk.
In the middle of a desert, there is no reason to make Las Vegas survive if it can’t do it itself. Gambling is the only reason it grew, and without that reason it’s a huge waste of energy and resources.
Unless they come up with something innovative that requires thousands of workers to make it go, Las Vegas’ days are numbered.
A new casino opened in Cincinnati. There are 2 more just a few miles away in Indiana and 2 race tracks are also within miles. My sense is that this area is now saturated. Why would they go elsewhere? It would be like visiting Vegas to go to a shopping mall.
The ultimate death knell for gambling as we know it is for voters to insist they’re adults and can play cards at home or at their local bar if they feel like it. IOW, TRUE legalized gambling....not the kind that makes a few well-heeled individuals richer and dumps dollars in state tax coffers.
Idiotic article because its entire theme is that “people don’t have to travel to Vegas.”
...except, the article doesn’t mention that Vegas tourism has increased from 32 Million in 2009 to 39 million tourists in 2013.
So much for the entire premise of the “article.”
Journalism for the lower half.
After we got Iphones, she started play free slots on the phone. Now, mother-in-law is playing, too, & no talk of going to the casinos.
The Iphone paid for itself in a couple of months of no casino trips.
I thought I was the only one. Probably it's all the racket and flashing lights -- can only take so much of that.
Jackson, Miss. Already pretty seedy.
IMO it was better when gambling was limited to AC and Las Vegas. You’d get better deals and everything was ‘special’. Now gambling is just a big form of the worst kind of tax. There’s not much fun in the indian casinos, especially on their 25% payout slots or whatever they want them to be.
At least when LV/AC had their advantage you could feel it in the air. Only been to AC once when I was a kid, but it wasn’t that awful. I could see maybe someplace like Shreveport being open too.
But putting casinos all over the place just takes the fun out of it and really makes the country a worse place overall. I’m pretty sure that expanded gambling in the last few decades hasn’t really made this country any better. Neither will more legalized and government involved drugs or prostitution. Downward spirals for all except the few casino owners and the politicians they pay off.
All I know is that the Las Vegas Club, downtown, is looking more and more like the Lucky 38.
“On the other hand, Atlantic City, once a major vacation spot during the roaring 20s and 1930s, as seen on HBOs Boardwalk Empire, collapsed when cheap air fare became the norm and people had no reason to head to the many beach town resorts on the East Coast.”
That implies that MOST east coast beach going folks who had always gone to east coast beeches, abandoned those beaches for airline trips (expensive then) to other states, MOST did not, so the premise that the growth of the airline industry caused the decline in Atlantic City and other east coast beaches seems nonsense to me.
MOST people who live near east coast beeches did not and do not rush to the airlines to get away to the beaches in other states, as part of their regular summer fair. Some do and most who do do so for certain occasions and not in general.
There were many factors in Atlantic City’s decline. I do not that travel by airlines was one of them.
I’ll sit at a neighborhood poker game once in a blue moon but I’ve never dropped a dime in a casino. No interest.
WELCOME TO VEGAS, MAKE YOU STAY A PEACEFUL ONE.
Yep, they are going to be needing those guys too to keep order.
I’ve been to a casino once in my life here in Michigan. I took $20 in and locked the rest in the car.
I was back on the road 20 minutes later.
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