Gambling and the Economy

Locally they are pushing to put a casino and the reason is people are supposedly traveling to spend theri money. But it always amazing to me that as the economy goes down the first thing people think about. As the economy has gone down - the first thing that seems to fill up the town are pawn shops. The pawn shops are lending a lot of money with high interest rates and people lose their shirts. As the wages keep going down - what are people to do. The local taxes keep increasing and people will be forced out into the streets. The rich keep getting richer and do not have to pay taxes as the rich does not put their money back into people and pay decent wages . to get back to subject in matter- Gambling does not increase local money to be spent locally. As the people get poorer - and people gamble to get more money -it does not work. There is not any free money thru gambling. I remember my father taking the last 5 dollar and going down and gambling to get more money. This was back in the 30's and we did not get over the depression until transportation and production to get the war machine going. One thing we did have those years- was we had good schools that made the students learn. I was selling newspapers on the streets and I remember people taking their WPA checks and gambling them away. Memories are made of this. In the process I never had to do home work as I could pass all the tests at end of 6weeks and get a good grade on my report card. Of course we did have good teachers that told the kids that they had to learn or they would flunk. That is not true today. Gambling gives false hopes for a free ride so I wonder what will happen when realization starts to take a hold. Who knows that might get some decent politicians running for office that might be interested in the average person before it is too late and our economy is totally gone. Churches are not the answer except to make a person feel better but that does not solve our troubles. What can I say? People wake up before it is too late. Don