Comments on: Council Bluffs loves Nebraska

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By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 04:11:00 +0000

It may be your right to gamble in a casino chad b but is certainly not your families obligation to put up with your decision to spend entire paychecks on gambling. Not to mention cities that have a clean environment and friendly atmosphere get to go through crap because “the revenue produced by gambling is so great” NOT!!! the millions in revenue is being spent on more law enforcement and a once clean city turned to utter chaos and pawn shops stationed at every street corner. Look at Las Vegas, sin city, theres a prositution house in every county around them and one of the highest crime rates in the country.

Gambling offers no benefits exspecialy those low income familys trying to get a large return because believe it or not they are the main ones losing money in the casinos. Than we get to pay for their wellfare because they have no money to feed their family with. YaY gambling!!!

Maybe you should look at both sides and not just the $$$$$ aspect that gambling can only offer…

By: taz

taz — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:32:08 +0000

Do any of you play keno or even the powerball?? What makes this nationwide gambling different compaired to local casinos.

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By: DianeO.

DianeO. — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 05:04:20 +0000

The people of Council Bluffs had a lot to do/say about the new fountain and plaza. Many people donated to the cost of the fountain, too. I can understand the argument about gambling, however - what irks me is why the people of Omaha have such a hard on against Council Bluffs when the majority of Omahans have never crossed the bridge to find out what Council Bluffs and its citizens are all about. If you would read the history of this area - the money makers of the 1800s in Council Bluffs were the ones who put their money into building Omaha. Today there are people who buy property in the Loess Hills (some are from Nebraska) and sell the dirt to Omaha. I suppose you could literally say that many buildings in Omaha are built on Iowa soil. Back to the gambling - historically, Council Bluffs/Kanesville was a dark and dirty town in the 1800s - that included gambling. In the late 1950s, and into the ’60s, there was dog racing at Playland Park - all that ended though. Omaha has had gambling for years, also - horseracing, keno, and the occational bingo parlor. I don’t ever remember anyone in Council Bluffs complaining because Omaha had gambling and Council Blfs didn’t. The gaming in Iowa is elected in - Iowan’s can vote either for or against it. I voted against it. Would the town have survived without it - yes. Is it too late to turn back - yes. Council Bluffs doesn’t get to keep the majority of the money that the casinos rake in - the first cut goes to the casinos - the second: Des Moines - from there it gets divied up across the state - yes, Council Bluffs gets a cut - not the citizens though. Our property taxes have been raised 10% every year since those properties have been put in - crime has gone up. Most of us don’t care who visits the casinos - most of them are the elderly. Many go just for the concerts or the restaurants - some to conventions. My family avoids them - because we choose to. The great thing is - God gave everyone “free will.” It’s up to us to exercise that gift properly.

By: Billy

Billy — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 05:21:58 +0000

Damn, you guys have some HOT dem girls! Sweet - I’m transfering!!!

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 05:12:43 +0000

I’m gay. I’m ready to admit it.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 07:28:11 +0000

So Tony we should add to the problems of credit cards as you talk about with building casinos. Sounds smart your right you changed my mind lets build casinos cause Iowa is doing so much better than Nebraska is. :()

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 02:36:30 +0000

Thanks John for aggreeing with me. You reinforced every reason why I am against expanded gambling. You have very good points on why gambling is bad for nebraska.

By: john

john — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 23:21:39 +0000

I hate george w bush

but i’m against expanding gambling too.

There are lots of arguments to be made against it. (and to all you conservatives who act like us liberals don’t think for ourselves, here we have the president and the vice president of the same club holding vastly different opinions on an issue!)

First off I don’t want a casino in Nebraska because casinos conrtribute vast amount of money to political campaigns, and always give to the candidate most likely to sell their soul. Democratic party or GOP the candidates who take casino money are the worst candidates, but the best funded. Casinos also give way more money on average to republicans than dems.

Secondly, while the social addictive argument can be used against alcohol also (and yet I am in favor of keeping beer legal), the converse argument cuts bothw ways too. What i mean is that Chad’s “let adults do what they want to decide to do” argument works for legalizing meth and prositution too.

We need to admit that there are some social ills that we legislate away. I think having one or two states where smoking mj and gambling (and hey, even prostitution) are legal is good. But we don’t need to have expanded gambling just because our neighbors do. Iff anything, we should use our time trying to get Iowa to get rid of gambling, not help gambling spread like a disease.

The numbers show that gamblers are mostly the poor and in need of hope. gambling effectivley turns into a tax on those two things. And yet it is the poor and those in need of hope that most show the differences between the dems and repugs. Us dems fight for the oppressed and in their best interest. We would appose a tax that unfairly hurt the disadvantaged further, why not appose a casino that does the same?

These are rambling not well written arguments, but they highlight a few reasons why I strongly apposed gambling on the ballot in 2004, and was glad to see it go down in flames.