Nothing can bring a family together like financial ruin.
Jay Leno of the Tonight Show, broadcast from Las Vegas. The more people believe in the importance of luck, chance, randomness and fate, the less they believe in the importance of stern virtues such as industriousness, thrift, deferral of gratification, diligence and studiousness. In the next decade or so, we'll face more problems with youth gambling than we'll face with illicit drug use. If the Disney companies set out to make children happy, the Vegas casino owners hope to keep them distracted, at least long enough for Ma and Pa to pump the college tuition money into the gambling maw. Then, in October 1991, casinos opened in nearby Black Hawk and Central City two historic Colorado mining towns not far from Hays' home and Hays' life fell apart.