bottom line - 02 July 2008 05:42 PM

good for him...we’ve seen the pie in the sky gambling promised...when all is said and done...gambling has not helped education in La.

it’s a form of taxation on poor people

It is not a tax on poor people no one forces them to Gamble.

Bobby Jindal - 02 July 2008 06:01 PM

The Iberville racetrack gambling was opposed by the casinos.  This is the Abramoff-Fletcher shuffle ... Bottom is right about the poor people; the ones who get rich are the lobbyists.  Right hand pushes for racetracks while left hand raises casino and indian money to fight the right hand.  Mercy me.

I think that Jindal was 100% right on this one.  (I hope bottom line’s head doesn’t explode when he reads this.)

Thanks , Coach.. You, like I, admit the good in others

BuyUpolitics - 03 July 2008 09:03 AM

bottom line - 02 July 2008 05:42 PM

good for him...we’ve seen the pie in the sky gambling promised...when all is said and done...gambling has not helped education in La.

it’s a form of taxation on poor people

It is not a tax on poor people no one forces them to Gamble.

Not it’s not a tax on the poor. It’s a tax on the taxpaying public that has to come up with more to help those who gamble everything away.

Gambling Oh I mean Gaming is not a business that creates anything. It is a drain on areas that don’t bring tourists in to gamble.

Go in the casinos and you see a few hill-rollers and thousands of people dreesly poorly,front teeth missing,etc..look around next time to observe…

the poor get their S.S. check,unemployment/low wages check and they blow it often thinking they’re going to win big...many are poor and uneducated..

it sometimes becomes an addicition they don’t know THE RULES ALWAYS FAVOR THE HOUSE or they would not be in business

I actually heard a guy in Harrah’s cussing as he walked out door..."there goes my child support money..F.... !!”

I think they should open it up and have as businesses as the market can handle.  Like any other industry, the market should decide who survives.

Noone is forced to spend there money in there. I don’t buy lotto or powerball tickets.  I pass casinos every day and I don’t stop. I have just visited my first casino almost a year ago and was bored silly.  Anyone who spends their child support money or bill money should have their utilites turn off or be in jail for lack of support.

It is simply protectionism of existing gaming.

Louisiana should do like Mississippi on gambling and quit these hypocritical acts of limiting gambling on moral grounds. There should be no limit on the licenses and individual cities and parishes should be allowed to decide if they want it or not. It works in Mississippi.

It is like the dry counties in parts of the South where the bootleggers and preachers are reluctant allies to keep lawful alcohol out of the county.

ccrider - 03 July 2008 08:48 AM

Leon Trotsky - 02 July 2008 09:41 PM

fred - 02 July 2008 06:22 PM

Lev is concerned only about the party… A narrow viewpoint indeed.

I am concerned about the state of the Republican Party today.  Intellectually bankrupt, purveyors of failed policies, harbingers of doom and gloom if they are not elected, zenophobia.

Right on. Look at what Bush Cheney have done and we’re likely seeing what Jindal and his crew want to do.
Consider the spending that may prove to bankrupt the government down the line.

A failed energy policy.

An economic plan that has cost millions of jobs and could cause millions to lose their homes.

A foreign policy that has us bogged down in a country that did not attack us and unable to fight in one where the attack originated.

Almost total loss of confidence by consumers.

A dollar so weak it’s driving up the cost of gasoline to record prices.

Bush Cheney’s economic policy can be measured by comparing the price of gasoline when they took office and the price today. Bush Cheney and their friends are making millions while consumers are facing economic failure.

I am a conservative and was a Republican except for both Bush’s reelections.

CC, is the failed energy plan about not being able to drill on our on soil?  If so, that was Clinton that put it into law and congress is blocking the issue.

Ditto on the gambling has not helped education, at least not anyplace I have seen.

bottom line - 02 July 2008 05:42 PM

good for him...we’ve seen the pie in the sky gambling promised...when all is said and done...gambling has not helped education in La.

it’s a form of taxation on poor people

Good for Jindal. Now if we can start getting some rollbacks of existing gambling instead of merely “opposing its expansion” I would be thrilled.

Bob Odom - 05 July 2008 09:54 AM

bottom line - 02 July 2008 05:42 PM

good for him...we’ve seen the pie in the sky gambling promised...when all is said and done...gambling has not helped education in La.

it’s a form of taxation on poor people

Good for Jindal. Now if we can start getting some rollbacks of existing gambling instead of merely “opposing its expansion” I would be thrilled.

He is not going to do that. They are politically too powerful. He will parade restrictions of gambling out there touting his stands as anti gambling but the reality is he is merely protecting existing gambling from competition. He couldn’t roll back gambling in Shreveport if he wanted too. It would be political suicide.

HB 937 provided for a public referendum on the issue of slot machines in a live horse-racing facility.  It would have given the people in the area an opportunity to decide that issue for themselves, but it was vetoed.

I thought conservatives liked public referendums.  Not with this?

The gambling industry is a parasite on society. It does more harm than good.

Trollfessor - 05 July 2008 02:34 PM

HB 937 provided for a public referendum on the issue of slot machines in a live horse-racing facility.  It would have given the people in the area an opportunity to decide that issue for themselves, but it was vetoed.

I thought conservatives liked public referendums.  Not with this?

They are for smaller government until it deals with the what they want you to believe.

I wonder if Jindal would sign a bill outlawing bingo at the Knights of Columbus???