Why when Ohio is already struggling for jobs did they vote down prop 6 for the Casino?
December 30, 2009 by
Filed under overseas construction jobs
I know Casino’s don’t bring in the best cliental but with GM on the brinks the most of Ohio’s manufacturing shipped overseas, and with now DHL leaving this state is turning into a bunch of welfare receipts. I should know I just separated from service here in Ohio and the only places I’m getting phone calls for interviews is out of state now.
With that said Prop 6 would have allowed Casino’s and brought in 10,000 jobs plus however many construction jobs to build it initially.
Do people from Ohio just not want to work ( as I am originally note from here ) or what?
lol….cant understand why they would’nt let them to be honest, unless it was a strong Bible Belt opinion showing.
Well, they also voted against the only person (John McCain) that could help them, so they’ll have to play the cards they dealt themselves. From what I’ve heard from a traveler, Ohio is full of welfare recipients now, a lot of in-breading going on, etc, so it explains why they voted for Obama.
Well, they voted for Obama… that should tell you as much as you need to know about them wanting their state to become a bunch of welfare recipients and handout takers. Gimme gimme gimme! I deserve the government to pay for my gas and my mortgage and my car! Since when did I have to pay for my own way? Not since before Obama!
With all these people out of work what would they be using to gamble?
Ohio is very conservative
Work? Why work? The Messiah said he is gonna provide free college educations, take care of their mortage and car payments, and give everyone free money from other people who work hard and have too much by his standards.
Why work?!
It didn’t get the vote because it wasn’t proposed to be built in the largest voting city, Cleveland, instead they picked some tiny town few people ever heard of, location,location,location.
I live in a state with 2 casinos. They have hired many and continued to expand. They are indian run and have sovereign land.
But now that they have been here over 15 years they are losing money and no longer contribute much from slot machines revenues. They have laid off more and more employees.
Their problem——they went for change. They changed the slot machines to ticket machines. Very boring and not a revenue increaser.
Also they just got a union. The UAW, interesting, they will be run into the ground too. “Currently the Foxwoods dealers union has been pushing the state of Connecticut to improve the conditions of their workplace. Workers and union organizers are pushing legislation that would ban smoking on the casino floors of Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun. The sponsor of the casino smoking legislation, state Sen. Mary Ann Handley, D-Manchester, is the co-chairwoman of the legislature’s public health committee. The bill did not pass during the 2008 legislative session. [6]”
In the beginning the state was benefiting from the slot revenues and the jobs, now the slots are down and people are being laid off.
Casinos are not the savior of the economy that they promise to be.
When Casinos were introduced to Louisiana, many local businesses in my area saw their sales dip by up to 40%. People were spending their discretionary income (and sometimes money that wasn’t discretionary) at the casinos. Shops either laid off workers or didn’t replace workers lost through attrition. The jobs “gained” because of the casinos were lower paying jobs than those lost because of the casinos.
So despite the promise of jobs, which isn’t really fulfilled, the community now has a new host of problems to deal with that the casinos bring with them. Among them are increased crime, bankruptcy, divorce, domestic violence and a host of others.
Congrats to the people of Ohio for not falling for the false promises of the casinos.
I voted no.
I read through the entire prop and didn’t like the way that it was worded.
I understand how hard hit Wilmington has been for jobs. I worked in Wilmington until one year ago when my company moved. Last month the company we worked for closed so all of the Wilmington people who drove to the new plant were looking at finding work again in Wilmington. They are my friends and I really care about them but I couldn’t vote for the Casino as it was written. There has to be another way.
I’m not opposed to gambling. I grew up in New Jersey where there are casinos. I would happily vote yes on a prop to allow gambling statewide. I don’t think that gambling should be illegal at all. It doesn’t infringe on the rights of others so I feel it shouldn’t be a crime. But the way this prop was worded was too shady. I’m sorry but I just couldn’t vote for it.
Yes, I want work and I want all of my Wilmington friends to find work soon. There just has to be another way.
I would have voted for it, but there were loopholes in the wording that could have guaranteed in the future that the casino owners could get out of paying taxes. The Ohio people admitted on a local talk show that they screwed up the wording and it was too late to change it. We can all guess who slipped it by them.