It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy

Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy

The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away

I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area

A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling

Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos

Utah sells itself to Fortune 500 companies as a noncasino state where employers don't have to be concerned about absenteeism and other problems associated with gambling

Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

It's not about saving humanity. It never has been." Mantrella, THE WAKING GOD TRILOGY

A tormented mind wants to forget, what a broken heart will always remember.

We can't move quickly. You move quick out here and you die quick.

Into a mouth shut flies flie not.

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

The Woman that does not love your Frowns Will never embrace your smiles.