Casino

I was reading the local newspaper this morning, while drinking my orange juice and I found an article about a project to open casinos in Colombus, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Toledo. Supporters of this project assert that the casinos will create more than 34 000 jobs and that it will provide $650 million in tax revenues for the state, counties, cities and school districts. Opponents say that construction of casinos will hurt businesses of the area and lead to a great job loss in those communities.

Here is my opinion about the project. The region of Cleveland as well as other areas of Ohio is stricken by the economic crisis. Would it be very beneficial to open a casino in an area with such economic conditions? Would not it be better to spend the state money in more productive projects that would help Ohio during these hard times? Moreover, it had been proved that where a casino was present the divorce, bankruptcy and gambling addiction rates were much higher than in areas without. Personally, I oppose casinos as well as other things that create addictions. Moreover, I am not sure that casinos can resolve or at least help to resolve the problems related to the economic crisis but instead cause much more damage by making local businesses go bankrupt. We need to keep in mind that casinos are not like we can see on television: the are not places where you can break in the safe and robe the money bur instead places where a lot of people see their lives being ruined by addiction and loans. The project will be voted on November 3^rd and I hope voters will realize the impact casinos can have on the region as well as on people’s lives and will take the right decision.