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i'm not saying it wouldn't of worked... i'm just saying it's not likely... ever heard of John Warren Kindt or read the U.S. Congressional hearing "The Business-Economic Impacts of Licensed Casino Gambling: Short-Term Gain but Long Term Pain"? Did you know that Wisconsin loses 318 million to gambling... ever read about south Dakota and the "great benefits" they got from gaming? Florida did a statewide analysis on the effects of legalized gambling activities and they concurred with the congressional hearings conclusions. Get this... a pathological gambler has been calculated to cost society 13,200 to 52,000 a year... this is a condition people have and the number of people with this condition increases with the addition of legalized gambling... .77% (point-77%) (77 hundredths %) of Iowa was pathological gamblers before it was legal and in the six years after it was to 5.4% ... i mean there are places like reno and Atlantic city and you're right about those places... it did work for them and those are the ones you see on the travel channel and yeah they look good with their flashing lights and people in nice suits and all that jazz... but there are the wisconsins and the iowas and the south dakotas too... i mean it's not like gaming is the silver tape for economics... that's what im saying... it doesn't always work... in west virginia those who admit to having a gambling problem (according to the Gamblers Help Network of West Virginia) of those who admit the problem... 36% make less than $20,000 a year... the next 17% make between 20k and 30k a year... and only 10% make more than 40k a year... those are facts... im sitting hear reading the print out from the Gamblers network and the congressional hearing... now these are numbers from 2001... so maybe things have changed... but according to everything i read then... i figured that gambling was AT BEST of 50/50 shot at working... which also means it's a 50/50 shot at failing and now that i look back maybe 2:1 odds aren't too bad... but i didn't feel the need to even roll the dice on it back then. it just weren't solid enough for me... im not saying gambling sucks... im just saying... it's not the knight in shining armor that some think it might be... that's all im saying