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ANF<\/a>: Governor-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms wants the state to revisit decisions on whether or not casinos should be legalized in Georgia<\/span><\/p>\n The thing about human nature is that if there\u2019s a topic that continuously keeps bubbling back up, regardless of how many times it has been rejected or shot down in the past, on a long enough timeline, it will eventually get a green light.\u00a0 Sometimes, it\u2019s on account of the landscape changing, the minds of the decision makers changing, or the decision makers themselves have changed.<\/span><\/p>\n But at the end of the day, I wager that most of the time it has more to do with the general exasperation of the people tired of having to have the same argument again and again, and much like parents relenting to their children\u2019s incessant whining, even lawmakers have a point in which they just seem to throw their hands up and just say, fuck it, fine, okay.<\/span><\/p>\n Off the top of my head, some examples I can think of repeatedly brought up issues that were rebuffed but eventually went through are:<\/span><\/p>\n That\u2019s where I think this is going to happen here in Georgia, eventually.\u00a0 It may not be this go around, but I think it\u2019s a safe bet that this topic will inevitably bubble back up again in a few years, probably justified by like North Carolina or Mississippi having some modicum of positive financial impact from the casinos they\u2019ve erected in their states, and if not this time, but eventually Georgia will relent.\u00a0 Eventually, someone will pose the question, of why should NC\/MS\/X state get money from our residents when we can be keeping that money here, and bam, casinos will start sprouting in Georgia, like snakehead fish or Asian murder hornets.<\/span><\/p>\n I mean, we\u2019ve already got legalized slot machines in a number of Kroger grocery stores, and there are more than numerous gas stations scattered throughout the state who are pretty flagrantly running their own slot machine rooms, loosely adhering to the law, while still sucking down the dollars of addicts under different terminology.<\/span><\/p>\n Personally, I\u2019m not a fan of the idea, but I also don\u2019t think this is a winnable fight, seeing as how the whole topic of casinos in Georgia seems to sprout up every two years or so.\u00a0 I just think it\u2019s a matter of time before it\u2019s going to go through, and resisting it seems like a futile exercise.<\/span><\/p>\n Fortunately, my gambling bug isn\u2019t nearly what it used to be, and I like to think I\u2019m more resilient to going back to wanting to gamble as much as I used to, which honestly wasn\u2019t that bad considering I never lost my head at any point of my oft-going to Vegas days.\u00a0 So even if and when casinos become a thing in Georgia, it\u2019ll be pretty easy for me to resist.<\/span><\/p>\n Additionally, from what I\u2019m gathering, is that it\u2019s places more on the outskirts of civilization, like the mentioned Henry County which is 1-2 hours south of Atlanta city proper that want these things, and yeah, those flyover counties probably would benefit from an influx of cash to their sleepy chunks of land.\u00a0 I just didn\u2019t like the idea of a casino replacing Turner Field\u2019s real estate, and having a gaudy casino right in the heart of the city, but out in those hill tribes, go for it.<\/span><\/p>\n Sure, they\u2019ll look ridiculous and gaudy and completely out of place, like most off-the-highway casino resorts do, like they are in North Carolina, Mississippi and Washington, but I guess if the claims are at least close to being true, and some of this money brought in goes towards important infrastructure, it might not be the worst idea in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s just sad though, that economies are so reliant on the cash flow provided by, gambling.\u00a0 Because it\u2019s just like that legendary quote from that Chinese kid\u2019s yearbook: it\u2019s not enough that I should succeed \u2013\u00a0others should fail<\/em>.\u00a0 Degenerate gamblers cash losses and probably their lives when they kill themselves rather than face the consequences of their addiction, lead to the economic flourish of the places in which these money traps lie.<\/span><\/p>\n What a world we live in.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ANF: Governor-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms wants the state to revisit decisions on whether or not casinos should be legalized in Georgia The thing about human nature is that if there\u2019s a topic that continuously keeps bubbling back up, regardless of how many times it has been rejected or shot down in the past, on a … Continue reading Here we go again with the 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