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Blues Heron

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1. Casinos are giant vacuum cleaners removing money from the local economy

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Jan 9, 2019, 08:16 AM

Jan 2019

and sending it out to Vegas, and then the Caymans or wherever. It's insane that they are allowed. I'm seeing lots of online ads for the new one in Maryland - must mean the crowds of gamblers have failed to materialize. One's better off lighting twenty dollar bills on fire one by one while drinking a sixpack.

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