Casinos as Oz

Casinos as Oz

Gambling is an industry built on the twin spectres of two social diseases: greed and addiction. As a Groveland School Committee member I certainly would wish the most resources for our children, but at what price? Gambling is a degenerate industry. It supports all the social ills humans have pursued. The greed of insatiable state government cleverly masked under the guise that jobs are needed will lead also to the usurping of revenues from local and border businesses.

The degenerate gamblers will be enabled further. The costs in lost revenues, jobs and closed businesses in the vicinity of the casino gambling operations will merely offset the “gains” that are being touted by our state politicians.

My only hope is that when I approach a casino to satisfy my curiosity to visit one, the flowers adorning it will be like the ones in Oz: fake, cheap and plastic.

— Joe D’Amore, Groveland