Video gambling—Illinois Church Action on Alcohol & Addiction Problems information
I’ve been busy and haven’t checked for comments lately until Saturday morning. I have received two more which I do plan to respond to eventually. However, after my Tuesday post I plan to do a couple more posts on “global warming” and then, if the Senate proceeds as it hopes to, some posts on nationalized healthcare. Although, of course, all is subject to change depending on what is occurring.
The post tonight is taken from material mailed to me by Illinois Church Action on Alcohol and Addiction Problems. I am selecting the information posted from a large group of information. It is my understanding that the same material was also mailed to the Tazewell County Board before the Board voted to table video gambling and recently to the Trustees of the Village of Morton.
The selected information:
The following is from a letter to the editor written by the Executive Director of ILCAAAP (http://www.ilcaaap.org/) and published by The State Journal Register on November 30, 2009. The title on the letter is “No reason for communities to allow video gambling.”
“Construction jobs are not at risk if communities ban video poker machines. Video gambling will neither bring nor reduce road and construction projects for any community.”
“While video gambling is one of the funding sources for the Capital Projects Fund, ‘there is no provision restricting local governments from receiving projects from the Capital Projects Fund, even if that governmental body bans video gaming in there area,’ according to the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability.”
Other material from the packet includes:
“A warning label was placed on each video gambling machine in West Virginia after the machines were legalized. The label stated: ‘Gambling May Be Hazardous to your HEALTH, your WEALTH, and your FUTURE.’ (The label should have also stated: VIDEO GAMBLING IS STATE SANCTIONED STEALING!—my addition)
The following is from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
“Professor says Vegas gambling machines designed to get people to ‘play to extinction’
Stephanie Schorow, MIT News Office
May 20, 2009”
“After more than a decade of research that included lengthy observations and interviews focused on gambling machines, Schull is publishing her conclusions on how closely guarded, proprietary mathematical algorithms and immersive, interactive technology are used to keep people gambling until they—in the industry jargon—‘play to extinction.’
Now an assistant professor in MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Schull believes her research underscores just how addictive today’s sophisticated gambling machines have become, something to consider when states are increasingly looking to legalized gambling as a revenue source, often by allowing video poker or slot machines at bars, horse tracks or other locations. Indeed, estimates indicate that a large majority of the revenue from the U.S. gambling industry—reported as $92.3 billion in 2007 by the American Gambling Association—comes from such machines.” (Note: I do not and will not refer to gambling as an industry. They are parasites who prey on the weaknesses and greed of men and women. It is no more an industry than is MURDER—organized or not—my addition.)
Even more information from ILCAAAP:
“Question: The Video Gambling Act allows bets of only nickels, dimes, and quarters, and the maximum bet of $2 per hand. Will this prevent people from betting in excess?
Answer: No. There is no limit to the amount of money that people can lose. Gamblers could lose their entire paycheck at one sitting. Slot receipts account for 88% of the revenue at Illinois casinos, with 70% of the slot revenue from Penny Slots, 2 cent, nickel slots, dime, and quarter machines. (Illinois Gaming Board July, 2009 report)”
“Question: Will other businesses benefit from video gambling?
Answer: Not according to the local government officials in Charleston, South Carolina and Great Falls, Montana, who commented that the atmosphere of convenience gambling created a negative environment and stigma in the communities, which hurt local commerce and residential areas and had a detrimental effect on community investment. They said the proliferation of video gambling machines in ‘tacky’ establishments discouraged new business from coming into a community. (Government Accountability Office report on Convenience Gambling)”
“Question: Should individuals and/or communities WAIT until the rules are completed to take action to ban video poker machines in their area?
Answer: No. The machines are the problem—the rules will not change that. Up to 60% of revenue from gambling machines in Ontario may derive from problem gamblers. (Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre, 6/23/04) The link between gambling and suicide is so strong that the Canadian Safety Council declared addictive gambling a public health crisis that accounts for up to 360 suicides a year. (Buffalo News, 6/24/06)”
“Question: Does the proximity to gambling matter?
Answer: Yes. The odds of gambling increases by 17 percent for every additional form of legal gambling in the state, according to a study at the University of Buffalo Institute on Addiction. Availability of an attractive gambling opportunity can lead to gambling pathology in some people who otherwise would not develop it, according to John W. Welte, Ph.D., principal investigator on the study. Ten percent of those who live in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods are problem gamblers as compared to about one percent of those who live in the least disadvantaged neighborhoods. (Study: University of Buffalo Institute on Addictions by Prof. John Welte. (June 28, 2005)” (And as been noted before: People, who would not gamble when it was illegal, will now gamble become it is legal and sanctioned by the State!—my addition)
I’ve been busy and haven’t checked for comments lately until Saturday morning. I have received two more which I do plan to respond to eventually. However, after my Tuesday post I plan to do a couple more posts on “global warming” and then, if the Senate proceeds as it hopes to, some posts on nationalized healthcare. Although, of course, all is subject to change depending on what is occurring.
The post tonight is taken from material mailed to me by Illinois Church Action on Alcohol and Addiction Problems. I am selecting the information posted from a large group of information. It is my understanding that the same material was also mailed to the Tazewell County Board before the Board voted to table video gambling and recently to the Trustees of the Village of Morton.
The selected information:
The following is from a letter to the editor written by the Executive Director of ILCAAAP (http://www.ilcaaap.org/) and published by The State Journal Register on November 30, 2009. The title on the letter is “No reason for communities to allow video gambling.”
“Construction jobs are not at risk if communities ban video poker machines. Video gambling will neither bring nor reduce road and construction projects for any community.”
“While video gambling is one of the funding sources for the Capital Projects Fund, ‘there is no provision restricting local governments from receiving projects from the Capital Projects Fund, even if that governmental body bans video gaming in there area,’ according to the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability.”
Other material from the packet includes:
“A warning label was placed on each video gambling machine in West Virginia after the machines were legalized. The label stated: ‘Gambling May Be Hazardous to your HEALTH, your WEALTH, and your FUTURE.’ (The label should have also stated: VIDEO GAMBLING IS STATE SANCTIONED STEALING!—my addition)
The following is from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
“Professor says Vegas gambling machines designed to get people to ‘play to extinction’
Stephanie Schorow, MIT News Office
May 20, 2009”
“After more than a decade of research that included lengthy observations and interviews focused on gambling machines, Schull is publishing her conclusions on how closely guarded, proprietary mathematical algorithms and immersive, interactive technology are used to keep people gambling until they—in the industry jargon—‘play to extinction.’
Now an assistant professor in MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Schull believes her research underscores just how addictive today’s sophisticated gambling machines have become, something to consider when states are increasingly looking to legalized gambling as a revenue source, often by allowing video poker or slot machines at bars, horse tracks or other locations. Indeed, estimates indicate that a large majority of the revenue from the U.S. gambling industry—reported as $92.3 billion in 2007 by the American Gambling Association—comes from such machines.” (Note: I do not and will not refer to gambling as an industry. They are parasites who prey on the weaknesses and greed of men and women. It is no more an industry than is MURDER—organized or not—my addition.)
Even more information from ILCAAAP:
“Question: The Video Gambling Act allows bets of only nickels, dimes, and quarters, and the maximum bet of $2 per hand. Will this prevent people from betting in excess?
Answer: No. There is no limit to the amount of money that people can lose. Gamblers could lose their entire paycheck at one sitting. Slot receipts account for 88% of the revenue at Illinois casinos, with 70% of the slot revenue from Penny Slots, 2 cent, nickel slots, dime, and quarter machines. (Illinois Gaming Board July, 2009 report)”
“Question: Will other businesses benefit from video gambling?
Answer: Not according to the local government officials in Charleston, South Carolina and Great Falls, Montana, who commented that the atmosphere of convenience gambling created a negative environment and stigma in the communities, which hurt local commerce and residential areas and had a detrimental effect on community investment. They said the proliferation of video gambling machines in ‘tacky’ establishments discouraged new business from coming into a community. (Government Accountability Office report on Convenience Gambling)”
“Question: Should individuals and/or communities WAIT until the rules are completed to take action to ban video poker machines in their area?
Answer: No. The machines are the problem—the rules will not change that. Up to 60% of revenue from gambling machines in Ontario may derive from problem gamblers. (Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre, 6/23/04) The link between gambling and suicide is so strong that the Canadian Safety Council declared addictive gambling a public health crisis that accounts for up to 360 suicides a year. (Buffalo News, 6/24/06)”
“Question: Does the proximity to gambling matter?
Answer: Yes. The odds of gambling increases by 17 percent for every additional form of legal gambling in the state, according to a study at the University of Buffalo Institute on Addiction. Availability of an attractive gambling opportunity can lead to gambling pathology in some people who otherwise would not develop it, according to John W. Welte, Ph.D., principal investigator on the study. Ten percent of those who live in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods are problem gamblers as compared to about one percent of those who live in the least disadvantaged neighborhoods. (Study: University of Buffalo Institute on Addictions by Prof. John Welte. (June 28, 2005)” (And as been noted before: People, who would not gamble when it was illegal, will now gamble become it is legal and sanctioned by the State!—my addition)
posted by Christian Gunslinger at 3:54 AM
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"Answer: Not according to the local government officials in Charleston, South Carolina and Great Falls, Montana, who commented that the atmosphere of convenience gambling created a negative environment and stigma in the communities, which hurt local commerce and residential areas and had a detrimental effect on community investment. They said the proliferation of video gambling machines in ‘tacky’ establishments discouraged new business from coming into a community. (Government Accountability Office report on Convenience Gambling)”
Is there any actual evidence to back this up other than the words of local government officials who's motives we have no idea about. For all we know the local officials who made these comments could been opposed to gambling from the start and where looking to blame anything and everything on gambling or they could of just been looking for a scapegoat to blame there own failures at economic development on or they could of been pandering to groups that opposed gambling. The comments of some unknown local government officials whose motives we know nothing about or even qualifications to judge the situation is not proof in the least. Are there any studies that back up there statement, for example by economist or political scientist?
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