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This book tells the personal story of a man who thought gambling was
just 'fun', 'entertainment', a man successful in his career, who
lost his fortune, his inheritance, and almost his family and job,
because of Gambling.
Prostitution is a thriving business in Las Vegas. The
pawn shop business is doing exceptionally well in Atlantic
City.
Suicides have increased almost double proportionally to other
cities, homelessness has increased, population has decreased, as has
property values.
The percentage of people with AIDS has doubled relative to
other similar cities.
Is this what we want our communities to look like?
People in poorly paid jobs with little chance for career
advancement, money taken from addicts, the elderly and the poor,
prostitution - materialism, all developed to the nth degree.
GAMBLING LOSSES come from
Social Security checks,
from the rent, from family savings, student tuition!
GAMBLING LOSSES fund the already wealthy,
who send it far away, out of local communities, even out of the
country.
Gambling magnates, such as Solomon Kerzner,
Connecticut Indian casinos,
sends his many millions stolen from Connecticut citizens,
back to his home in South Africa.
Money flies out of communities, never to return.
Gambling is a 'Black hole',
Sucking up community resources
giving nothing back.
GAMBLING is a poor choice
for individuals,
a misguided and financially unsound idea for communities,
and a reckless, materialistic, unproductive and ungodly
course of action for any country.
Read this book and see the
studies and research, done by a multitude of experts in the field,
who detail how gambling affects and influences the economic system
of our society. These economic and social effects in home
communities are insidious and pervasive, although silent and
unheralded.
This book discusses gambling as
an addiction, its clinical make-up, Its affect on individuals, on
families, and on communities.
It concludes that casinos and other gambling entrepreneurs play
a key, culpable role in the addicting of individuals.
This book will tell you all you
ever wanted and or needed to know about gambling - and then some. It
will show you innumerable stories of tragedies, the 'underbelly
of the beast,' the dark side of this monster of addiction,
created and incited, by business interests and by Government.
Our State governments enrich themselves nicely at the expense
of their own citizens, usually the ones who can least afford it.
Actually can any of us afford to throw our hard-earned money away,
to 'flush it down the toilet' so-to-speak, to spend it and get
nothing in return except a night's entertainment?
Gambling's product, what it
produces, what we exchange our money for,
is an ephemeral 'high', that gives nothing to us or those dependent
on us.
Gambling's product is tainted,
impure, corrupt and serves to 'hook' others, while it
misrepresents itself. Gambling, in its many forms of casinos, OTB, 'Looteries',
tries to get people addicted because that increases their profit
line. Addicts are really good sources of income for casinos. In
fact, casinos make most of their money off people who would be
categorized as 'compulsive gamblers'.
When you finish this book, you will be an expert on gambling and an
advocate for what we, as a society, should begin doing - Closing
down gambling halls and beginning to see where we're going and where
we want to be, to see that we need to be about supporting and
helping others, not putting up tools for their addiction and ruin!
After showing what gambling
addiction looks like,
this book explores gambling from the viewpoint of
Economics, Addiction, Social Values and Social Costs,
including Suicide, Religion, and Government involvement.
GAMBLING, of the magnitude with which its being done these days
is a new, 21st century phenomenon - an addiction uncovered and
created, and now being encouraged to spread by our very Government,
addicted by gambling's revenue.
State governments are helping to fuel gambling's expansion
documentable glossed over and ignored by gambling entrepreneurs yet
they're a very real and virulent entity - 'private industry gone
amok'. many years.
Have Atlantic City and Las Vegas
been transformed into wonderful places to raise families?
Have they reduced their numbers of poor people,
built housing for the needy,
or lowered the mortality rate?
Look at the areas within 10 blocks of the casinos.
See for yourself!
It's all about 'MONEY',
a lot of money,
in the pockets of the gambling industry,
Some in the pockets of State Governments,
Leaving the lives and budgets of people Forever,
Citizens who will soon be poor. . .
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