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Another thing I think people thought would happen would be welfare cases and such down there wasting away their money but that would not have happened because you had to be staying in one of the downtown hotels to take advantage of the casino so that limits it to basically tourists and people with money around these parts which would have kept the hotels, businesses, and restaurants filled during all this!

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Says who? I think you're making this stuff up, Thunders1.

The people who can least afford to play these money games are the very people who are most inclined to play them... they have a dream of lady luck delivering them from their misery... a desperate dream at times... it's why the WV Lottery remains so successful.

Gaming is nothing but an end-around tax on the poor... it is an artificial industry, in that, there is nothing inherent to the product that makes it any more special in WV than it would be in southern Indiana than it would be at some Indian reservation than it would be in Reno or Vegas. It is a house of cards, pun intended.

No. West Virginia's future is bright as the internet age makes it more and more possible for people to work from their homes, and as corporations reframe their "workplace" around the capacity for people to interact with each other electronically... places like Huntington and Charleston especially are going to become attractive and popular within the next 25 years for their relative peacefulness and proximity to outdoor activities.

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Prove it. Prove that its the poor people that have a higher tendancy to place $100 on black than to by a $1 lottery ticket.

Prove that it is the poor man that would pass by 20 bars with video poker machines only to spend his last dime at a video poker machine in a casino.

Prove that a poor person would avoid TriState Greyhound Park like the plague but spend his child's milk money at a casino.

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Just looking for some clarity...

You're attempting to justify a casino on the basis that the state already allows other forms of gambling? "They're already doing this, so why not permit them to do that?"

And are you also suggesting that even in having more lavish outlets for gambling, that people won't be any more inclined to spill their money then than they are now?

And finally... your definition of "prove" is what?... just so you don't set the definition so high that it can't reasonably be approached let alone met... and to be fair, just make sure it's a level of "proof" that you yourself can meet, otherwise you're only issuing the hollow challenge in the best Scott Farcas tradition.

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More nonsense. I guess that is why Casinos target ghettos and trailer parks instead of businessmen and suburbia. I guess that is why I see all these bums riding around in limos at Vegas. Yeah, if I build a $1.1 billion casino, the first place I would go to recoup my money is center city Philadelphia. Yeah, to heck with trying to get Michael Jordan to come spend his millions. I'd go after all the welfare recipients in WV first.

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Is that why almost all of the casinos you've been so eager to mention were located outside of an urban area, ie where there is a sizeable middle class and upper class to appeal to?

What happens, Professor Blade, when a casino is located in an area where there is comparatively little middle and relatively no upper to appeal to?

And if you get MJ here before you get WV welfare recipients, then my man, (with acknowledgement to the judgment of Marco00 and any of his French colleagues ) you've not only TKO'd me, you've knocked me out of the universe... but at least give me some reason to understand why people like MJ would flock to WV when they can pick from all these other wonderful places you mention... what sets WV apart?

(Putting it at The Greenbrier is one thing... putting it in Hgtn or Chas or the Weston State Hospital (cough-cough-gag-gag-bellylaughter)... any of those is quite another.)

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There is nothing inherent, industrially speaking, in Snowshoe Resort, Myrtle Beach or the Grand Tetons either. To say that tourism is an artificial business one of the most foolish things I've ever heard. Period!

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Indeed, tourism when you've got a unique ski slope, a particularly inviting beach, or a picturesque mountain range... those are far from artificial, and I would join you in calling that foolishness. One doesn't simply invent a reason for someone to go to one of those places... they are not synthetically appealing, they are naturally appealing.

(Can we get back to the subject now?... as I remember, we were talking about opening another McDonalds in Huntington... er, no... another Planet Hollywood... strike that, they went out of business... no, another Hard Rock Cafe'... ahhh... no, I remember... another CASINO... another "UNIQUE" casino, unlike all the others... one that EVERYONE will want to fly to WV to come to...)

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Geesh sturt, taking about a house of cards! The internet! Yahoo with a combined net worth of $12 dollars and 50 cents is making billions in the market. Granted, real property is not the only way to create value but the gaming industry has billions of dollars more real property than the e businesses.

You are speaking with no real facts and calling people out for the same. That's my strut!

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So, the "real facts" are that I should gauge the future of e-commerce on your singular stock quote for Yahoo?

Isn't that a little like going back 25 years ago and yucking up the potential of the fast-food industry based on the stock price of McDonald's back when?

Thanks for setting me straight, Professor.

Forgive me... I've got to go order some xmas presents from Amazon now... (you should try it sometime... it's really great for those of us who despise going to shop at "real properties" )

...meanwhile, I'm content that I've laid out some solid points that you don't seem interested to acknowledge, let alone, engage.

Looks like bobo has uncovered some of the kind of information that is actually substantive, and though I'm committed to getting some sleep right now, when I do reply that's the kind of thing you'll see... not the city media's self-promotion or travel agency yada-yada-yada steeped in a profit motive.

And finally, defensiveness doesn't become you:

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I don't have to justify anything. The state already allows the lottery and video machines. That is a fact. The only issue here is allowing table games. Huntington already has the other two.

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Ummmm... if you aren't attempting to "justify" a casino in Huntington, pray tell what are you doing and why are we even having this discussion??? And in answer to my two questions, it would have been simple enough to just say, "Yes, Huntinton already has the other two, so I'm just saying why not table games, too." No need to get snippy prematurely, my friend.

G'nite.