Victim of casino glut, NJ's Atlantic Club closes

[unhappycamper]

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/01/12/2990884/victim-of-casino-glut-njs-atlantic.html



This Nov. 14, 2013 file photo shows the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel in Atlantic City N.J. The Atlantic Club will shut down on Jan. 13, 2014.

Victim of casino glut, NJ's Atlantic Club closes
By WAYNE PARRY
Associated Press
January 12, 2014 Updated 10 minutes ago

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — New Jersey's Atlantic Club Casino Hotel shut down early Monday morning, the victim of a glut of casinos in the northeastern U.S.

Once Atlantic City's top-earning casino, where then-owner Steve Wynn clowned with Frank Sinatra in commercials, bringing the legendary singer an armful of fresh towels, the Atlantic Club went out with a whimper. In the hours before the 12:01 a.m. closing, its restaurants and bars had all shut down, and many gamblers and employees had already left.

The few die-hards that stayed on the casino floor until the end counted down its final five seconds as dealers who were suddenly unemployed burst into tears and hugged each other. Within moments, casino staff began stacking and counting chips and preparing to remove cash boxes from the casino floor.

"Where was our support?" asked Kathy Buonasorte, a cocktail server for 28 of the casino's 33 years. "They all left us. No politician helped us. No one came to save us."

[BlueStreak]

1. Mark my words. Pot will be the next casino/lotto industry

30 years ago, the Puritans in our society had held the ground on gambling -- confining it mostly limited to sinful Nevada and Atlantic City. But the power of the buck overwhelmed that. State after state figured out that the biggest innovation in government funding was "The Voluntary Tax". People literally will line up to pay the state billions of dollars to gamble in casinos. And then they got an even better idea -- letting the states run their own numbers rackets and cut private business out altogether. Now that is almost everywhere.

Pot will be exactly the same way. I'm not particularly happy about that, as I don't plan to smoke pot, and having everybody high around me definitely puts me at greater risk. But the money will be huge. The next big Voluntary Tax.

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. Just because Cannabis may be made legal.....

doesn't mean that you will be "having everybody high around me" and you will in no way be at "greater risk" of anything.

That is not just ridiculous, it is absurd.

The vast majority of people with the proclivity to get high, already do. Legalization just means they won't be threatened with jail for ingesting a plant.