Massachusetts Governor Patrick proposes bringing three destination casinos to my state. Let me just say that I support and applaud this decision. Casinos will bring in tons of revenue and create tons of jobs. Not only that, but it will provide me and millions of others somewhere to go and something to do on the weekend.
Destination casinos are places you can go to just for the fun of it, even if you don't plan on spending tons of money gambling, and they all have buffets. I would go to the casino just for the buffet. We do not have many buffets in Massachusetts; they're all out in California.
I'm not much into gambling myself; I prefer guaranteed rewards for all monetary expenditures. I will not pay just to lose money. Seems illogical to me.
Of course, now "battle lines will be drawn" over Patrick's decision, pitting the evangelicals and Christianists against the liberal secularists, gambling addicts and buffet-lovers. Why does there have to be a fight about everything? As to the fact that more casinos gives those with gambling addictions a place to hit-up, that's a gambling addict's problem. We don't hide all the alcohol away because some alcoholic might see it. It's an addicts responsibility to take control of their lives, not mine.
Destination casinos now adays are more family-oriented anyway, and this in my mind makes them less the crime destinations that they could be. Personally, I think all the grungy poor people and senior citizens that haunt the places with delusions of getting rich quick or acquiring something inheritable at the last minute--when all they're doing is squandering what little they make from minimum wage or social security--are much scarier in general.
Anyway, all I want is a buffet within 50 miles. Thank you Governor Patrick!
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