You really do get what you pay for. Las Vegas has the highest suicide rate in the nation. I kept watching my father come home on those late Friday and Saturday evenings from Phenix City. His ship came close to shore on a shining night when he brought home that sack of silver dollars. He never saw that ship again-it kept moving out of sight.
Statistics say that few win at the gaming tables and the slots.
Jess Marcum, who helped develop radar and the neutron bomb, is now a casino consultant. Studies also show that most of the losers, like my father, are poor. They see gambling as a way out. What they discover is a dead-end street. The state and its servants and institutions should always represent the common good of all its citizens.