Posted on 09/23/2009 6:53:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
for some reason i read this and thought of that t.v. show beauty and the beast. tunnel people hmmm. any of them look like lion men who love poetry?
It's prowling the slot machines in the casinos, looking for credits that were left unclaimed and cashing them.
All the casinos -- at least on the south end of the strip -- have gone electronic. There are no coins. You put bills in the reader, and it maintains your balance until you cash out.
And when you cash out, you get a printed voucher. You can put it into another machine, or convert it to cash at one of the ATMs in the casino.
It may or may not be the fault of the man in the White House.
These people also have to be held accountable for their own actions and lives.
In fact, none of them sound either mentally disturbed or physically incapable--to me at least.
Therefore, we find the dilemma.
"Homeless"?
OR
"Prideless"?
If there is a job in the Las Vegas Sentinal calling for a ditch digger or an ambulance driver or a roadway flagman, even if it pays only enough to get a fleabag apartment above ground, will any of these people recover their HUMAN PRIDE, knock off the dumpster diving and pan handling, and go do an honest day's work for pay and get out of their situation?
Sorry. I hear nothing but lame excuses here.
And I cannot lay that all on Obama's doorstep, as much as I dislike HIM, too--and believe me, there is enough to be made about him these days.
In fact, I wish that the article would have ended with the reporter showing them four current job openings in Las Vegas and see what their reaction would be to going to an interview for them...
[What, exactly, is credit hustling? Is it a fancy term for panhandling?]
No, I think it refers to people who get various freebie coupons and promotions from the casinos, as well as looking for unplayed slot credits, etc. I met some couple who was doing that once, but I can’t remember the details.
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