John Quotes

This is a very insulting tribute But take it in good heart Congratulations Mom and Dad You've reached Silver together...apart Lots of love etc

Over a pint in the pub, you have a good moan That's the fate of every Magpie While Mam perfects her game show skills Giving talks at the WI

You moan a lot and jingle your change But let's face it, there's no escape You can flick the remote as much as you like But she's on the TV and on every tape

It's not easy for you, Dad You seek your own space You slope off to watch telly But still see (Mom's Mum's Mam's) face

I'm soooo happy you're my Dad And soooo I want to say I love you, Dad, and wish you A sooo very best birthday

Dad, because you are my father it's been easy to believe in God.

Dad's are the treasures of the world!

Still very active And rarely seen apart You're teenage geriatrics Modern and young at heart

Proud parents to two children Grandparents to five more Who visit the "Harper Bakery" It's Gran's cooking they all adore

My goodness, you're 60 already, already Time is a thief But still, you're only as old as your tongue And a little bit older than your teeth Have a wonderful birthday

Happy 60th Birthday, good buddy. How are you dealing with your awful debility, lessened utility and loss of mobility?

At 50, you probably get muddled? I'm the same, that's how I know? If you ever get lost, don't worry? Just change where you want to go

Throw all caution to the wind, today, on your 40th No need to have wisdom and sage But tomorrow, as you start your 5th decade Do try to act more your age

So OK, it's your special big Four-O birthday But don't expect me to be obsequious and fawning You, being you, can't possibly be a good example So do try, at least, to serve as a warning

I'm glad God chose you to be my Dad!

Gladys.. work has kept you fit And Bill.. you never moan Well life's not for carrying cases With a butler of your own

Dad: someone who hopes his son will turn out just like him, and who is afraid his daughters will meet someone who did.

When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens

If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector

Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn

Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that produces no product

No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool

Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those

The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind

Casinos don't bring business except for the gambling boys

Generally, traditional businesses were slow to recognize the way in which legalized gambling captured dollars from across the entire spectrum of the various consumer markets, but now they know

Your social costs, your costs to the taxpayers, are $3 for every $1 of benefits, it's not good economic development

Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars set aside for necessities

The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped

The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction

Movies and Disney World don't create addicts

This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money

Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits

Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy

Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government

A shrinking economy means lost sales and lost jobs

$60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000

The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine

Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year

For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy

The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas

It is not economic development; it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas

Your addiction rate will go up if you have gambling in this area

An Osage tribal study found that between $41 million to $50 million left a 50-mile radius around their own casino

Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines

In 1993, 40 percent of Minnesota restaurateurs reported declines attributed to casinos

Thirty-seven percent of gamblers dip into their savings to fulfill their habit

Gamblers spend 10 percent less on food; 25 percent less on clothing and 35 percent less on savings