Hey -- Bill Bennett did his bit to keep the gaming industry in business.
I work in the gaming business, in marketing, so I appreciate that.
Also working in the gaming business are waitresses, bellmen, change people, clerks, mechanics, technicians, IT people, maintenance and sanitation workers, bookkeepers, accountants, dealers, pit bosses, executive officers, security personnel ... on and on ...
This is an industry like any other. We give a service, people buy it. We treat our customers well.
People spend their entertainment dollars according to their own lights...and that's how it should be. The gaming business is, as much as anything these days, vacation and convention business. Of course, I live in Vegas (I'm not in the business) and have great appreciation for the economy here -- the most robust economy in the nation...maybe in the history of the nation.
Kudos! It's just me...I think $8 million dollars on gambling is wrong.
It's obvious that I'm in the minority. I'm okay with that.