This is hard to believe, I wonder what it cost?
'Cops for Casinos': Ohio Fraternal Order of Police Announces Support for
Casino Ballot Issue
Next step, if Organized Crime, agrees to keep accurate records and books, and pays taxes on their revenue, then, the FOP will support Organized Crime in Ohio.
Casinos, where people lose their hard earned money, where you can win an unlimited amount of money, where you can lose all your money, where you can become addicted to gambling, are good for Ohio.
Jobs are created, people make money. Does anyone know where this money comes from. OH, that's right, PEOPLE LOSING MONEY. How can anyone, or any organization, think that it is GOOD, for people to lose money.
Perhaps the FOP thinks the additional workload will be good for them. What all follows casinos. Crime, prostitution, just to name a few. And, WHO, in Ohio, is qualified to oversee the regulation of casinos? It takes a thief to catch a thief. In my opinion, and I spent a number of years in the industry, millions of dollars will be hidden and laundered.
Who is going to support these casinos, who's very existence depends on customers losing their money. Are we in SLOW economic times, YES. Are jobs becoming increasingly harder to get, YES. Are casinos, presently in operation, having a hard economic time, YES. OH, so let's build casinos in Ohio, because we have a lot of experience, and know what we are doing.
WHERE does the money come from, to build expensive casinos. Perhaps PTA groups, or church groups, or perhaps organizations with laundered money, or unions, or the underworld, as it is referred to.
Amazing, when NO revenue was being collected by politicians and municipalities, it was run out of town, "We don't want that underworld element around here."
Now, how much revenue will the state take in? How much, OOOOHHHHHHH it is a good thing. And will the casinos be UNIONIZED, of course. So, we have, a casino, possibly being built with UNION money, putting thousands to work, paying their UNION DUES.
They advertise, 34,000 jobs for Ohioans. Ohio is full of dealers, boxmen, floor bosses, casino managers, experienced casino workers, well, maybe dishwashers and waitresses.
It would be interesting to know how many of the FOP members agree with that endorsement. I just cannot imagine any rational thinking person, agreeing that an industry that feeds on people losing money, is good for anything.
Remember, GAMBLING was a bad thing until someone saw the potential for tax dollars. Now, the excuse, "Tax dollars are scarce," so don't tax the people more, just steal the money from them. Remember this, "A gambling license is a license to steal." That is why it is called "gambling."
I will not say another word, if they just let me control the licensing, or get "first count" in the casino counting rooms. Jobs that Madoff dreamed of.
