“The gambling industry has a tendency to find public figures ... and these persons are used for their public image. These people generally come in for a couple of years and then they sell out and it's 100 percent owned by out-of-state interests” PeopleYearsPersonsStatesUsedInterestFiguresIndustryCouplePercentSellsTendenciesGamblingPublic FiguresPublic Image Author:John Warren Kindt
“People will spend a tremendous amount of money in casinos, money they normally would spend on refrigerators or a new car. Local businesses will suffer because they'll lose consumer dollars to casinos.” PeopleSufferingLosesCarAmountDollarsLocalsConsumersGamblingRefrigeratorsCasinosNew CarLocal Business Author:John Warren Kindt
“For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling” PeopleTwoJobsThreeLosesEconomyMachinesGamblingTwo Jobs Author:John Warren Kindt
“Bankruptcies will be up 18 to 42 percent around racinos areas tracks as people lose their money” PeopleLosesPercentAreasTrackGamblingBankruptcy Author:John Warren Kindt
“The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped” PeopleCommonMistakeGasGamblingStationsGas Stations Author:John Warren Kindt
“Sociologists almost uniformly report that increased gambling activities, which are promoted as sociologically 'acceptable' and which are made 'accessible' to larger numbers of people will increase the number of pathological gamblers” PeopleMadeNumbersActivityIncreaseReportsGamblingAcceptableSociologists Author:John Warren Kindt
“You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people you have hooked on gambling” PeopleMajorsPopulationGamblingHookedCasinos Author:John Warren Kindt