I am shocked -- to find gambling going on at the horse track!
After reading in Forbes magazine about how "Gambling Opponents Rally Against Video Slots," I managed to be stricken by another gut-wrenching flare up of agitation from you-know-who: Those sharpshooters in Frankfort, Kentucky, who are ready to get out the big guns as the heat increases over video-based gambling again.
What's the big stink now? Oh no! They want to put video slots in Kentucky-located horseracing tracks. Whoever wants to argue over putting slots in a race track is beyond me. Let's all hiss and boo at the corruptible force, otherwise known as gambling, and hope that somebody else will come up with some other radiant and more moralistic ideas to make money.
Other issues that came up during the council meeting depicted in Forbes involved bridge-building and tax cuts; video gambling was the topic that sizzled hottest, however. And not just for video slots increasing profits to compensate for the sloping downturn of finances brought in by horseracing; no, it’s also for gambling revenues to fund things like a “massive statewide school construction plan” – How terrible, a proposal backed by representative Larry Clark, a Louisville Democrat!
Clark believes the plan has a good chance of winning an approval Thursday when it hits the floor by Friday. We’ll see what prevails: a reasonable solution or more bureaucratic tail-chasing…-- written by Nat Cat