Vote by Cities-Not State for CASINO!

[ytowner]

A job is a job. You guys make big deals if like a new business opens and it employs 5 people.

well this will employ like 2000. the pay will be higher

and you know people these days will work for less if they need to. actully i find workin at a casino fun.

If not next to the arena. Build a skyscraper in downtown!

[kitten44505]

What about good paying jobs?

If the bums in Columbus were as intent on bringing jobs here rather than paying companies big divitends for exporting jobs to Mexico, we wouldn't need gambling joints.

[ytowner]

Okay your calling the runners of this state of Ohio, who are against Casino's like you bad. I am lost miss.

Bingo whatever. That is for senior citizens. These church groups are against it and they all have bingo. well i say not to be mean Screw them. They are the hypocrites. B-I-N-G-O is a thing of the past.

We lost way to much money to Mountaineer. And they don't have tables there; only slots.

Our casino would be slots and the most popular cards games like Poker and Blackjack.

Talkin with some kids I know they said heck they would stay and live here if one was to open.

IF PEOPLE WANT; THEY WILL GET IT. IF THIS CITY VOTES YES WHICH I SEE NO REASON WHY THEY WON'T SINCE THEY HAVE HAGAN THE NOD FOR THE DEMOCRATS AND HE SUPPORTS CASINO'S; I DON'T WANT TO HEAR FROM PEOPLE LIKE YOU COMPLAINING.

Because guess what. People need jobs. Our city needs more money. People want more than nature walks through Mill Creek Park.

[kitten44505]

My youthful friend, religion has nothing to do with it as far as I'm concerned ... it's the politics of the darn thing that I don't like.

Here in Ohio we seem to get nothing but liars, cheats and downright hypocritical crooks running the state, and until we can get some really honest men and women in state office with integrety, I'll oppose any scheme that could put more money at their disposal.

Look at how the state lottery has been abused. It was to go to schools, and what happened?

In Navada they have a winning formula and the tax payers benefit.

If a gaming commission could be establiished here using the Navada formula, then I would not be opposed to it.

As to Bingo, a lot of good that has done for the Church.

We had a wonderful school at my church with a great secure playground, but Bingo didn't save it. The Bishop closed our school and made our children go to a school that is not only in a bad area, but much older, that is right next to on off ramp of the expressway, and when the students have to go over to the church they have to cross the street.

I really don't know what the answer is to be perfectly honest about it. I do know though that so long as hypocritical horse thieves run the state we will continue to be a third class state.

Call me bitter, but darn it, there was a time when our state was one of the richest states in the Union, and now jobs are leaving at a record clip, and no one in Columbus really cares.

[jay]

Would people move here if we had BINGO?

BINGO is gambling.  You could play BINGO at a different hall night after night for weeks.  

Folks from other areas should take bus tours to Youngstown just to play BINGO!

[ytowner]

I understand your a religious person. I am. I go to church every week. I went through Catholic Education for all my years from PreSchool through college.

I want this!
Young Adults my age want it! My 10 buddies who left town said they'd move back if we had a casino!

I'm sorry. I want and need it.

[kitten44505]

Have you personally toured cities that have casinos?

Show me one city outside of Navada that has improved dramatically from gambling ... where crime has gone down ... where slums have been eleminated ... where there is at least 50% employment city wide ... where the casinos have bebefitted businesses outside the boundries of the casino.

Look at Atlantic City ... Detroit Salamanca New York. No overall benefit.

Only a fool would think that gambling would solve Youngstown's problems either in the short or long run.

Navada has succeeded because the state legislature there did right by Navada's tax payers.

Here in Ohio, we have nothing but horse theves that would rob their own mothers of the gold fillings in their teeth, then slap a tax on them for having the gold in the first place.

I don't trust politicians ... and I certainly don't trust gamblers. Neither are capable of telling the truth.

[ytowner]

People would move back into the city. Downtown will have 2,000 new jobs....

So many new businesses from the west side to the south and beyond.

the city would hire more police.

hotels in downtown.

add like night getaway packages like a game at the arena and then a show at night at the casino.

i am a republican. i am a catholic. i am FOR CASINOS!

YSU would get more people, in a bad way of course. just every aspect of the area will be changed by this.

PROS ARE 8 and CONS ARE 2.

80% GOOD. 20% PREVENTABLE BAD


One more thing. The younder population wants casinos. Poker is their lives. Add senior citizens and slot machines= SUCCESS

[kitten44505]

I would agree that the old United Engeneering buildings should come down ASAP ... BUT the question is, are those buildings still being used? I know that the last time I was down in that area I saw semi- trucks making deliveries.

AS FAR AS CASINO'S ARE CONCERNED, I FAIL TO SEE JUST WHAT GOOD THEY WOULD DO. You folks continually ignore the fact that in those cities that have casinos, the immediate area around the casino is nice, but beyond that the old problems continue. Prove beyond all shaddow of any doubt that we would see an upserge of improvements outside the immediate area ... PROOF THAT COULD BE USED IN A COURT OF LAW, and prove to us that you will be prepared to put your money where your grand ideas are by investing in land on Market Street south of the river, then maby I would support a casino, BUT if tax dollars are going to be used in any way, then I will personally file a class action suite to stop it.

[ytowner]

Jim Petro got wording on petitions for the CITY to vote on casinos and not the state!!!!!

The standards are they need some 320,000 signatures. The city must be 50,000 people or more. I think it would pass in Youngstown. You knock down that steel mill west of the market street bridge right on Front Street.

We need that one more thing downtown. A casino would make downtown 100% SWEET!!!!!