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   you know what is right, though you may still be blind, never too late to   
   change your mind, we are all in agreement, in truth we rise, evil is just the   
   deceived disguised...   
      
   STAND TOGETHER, OR DON’T   
   Our Gambling Problem   
      
   Instead of our government deciding what services we need and are willing to   
   pay for, they’ll have us think that by actively promoting gambling to those we   
   can take advantage of, somehow serves them right, and us well. This abnormal   
   behavior is not only    
   destructive to many cheated players, their families and friends, but also to   
   our institutions, government, and economy. You may have heard some say, that   
   gambling is a tax on stupidity, and here are only some of the reasons why.   
   This information is for    
   you to judge, think freely, ask the questions, then pray your wrong. The whole   
   VLT system our government uses is so deeply flawed it’s beyond belief. They   
   count credits as dollars, reporting to   
   trusting economists and reporters, a payout of 96%. They will tell you they’re   
   needed because otherwise the victims of manipulation would travel to the   
   states before the local state casinos to spend their last two bucks, and they   
   should, their odds are a    
   real deal better.   
      
   There are no checks and balances in place as there is normally to regulate tax   
   revenues. Nobody in the corrupt gaming commission, MLC, AFM in fact Canada has   
   looked at the computer code, and in Montana where they have, they’ve made them   
   illegal to    
   operate. They’re not stupid. Some of the possible new car owners at the MLC,   
   state that the machines run on a random basis. They have deduced this by   
   testing that they are computers and can simulate a random number concluding   
   presumably that every    
   computer program is just an act of chance. I guess the free cars to some in   
   management make this easier. If this is true, how come no one ever wins more   
   than a $1000? If, as they claim, it is random,   
   occasionally one might win $33 billion by starting at 125 credits doubling 30   
   times. Get a deck of cards and a calculator and try! Your odds are slim, but   
   at least you have a chance. If this type of psychological manipulation is to   
   be allowed, why not    
   physiological as well.   
      
   Why not put an odorless chemical right on the pay slips that would leach   
   through the players skin, causing them to act against their better judgment?   
   Body and mind? Here’s a tip: Bar owners are privy to much statistical   
   information, that we, the general    
   public are not. If they play, your being really stupid. Also the machines are   
   filthy, wash your hands. You see, they’re trying to turn us against each   
   other, into one of them, blinding us, making us lash out and cheat our weaker   
   brothers and their    
   families, if it means we can drink their blood (190+ suicides last year). But   
   in truth, we are all being bled. BAH HA! It is a pure regressive tax, no   
   attached goods or services! Billionaires own   
   freezers and stacks of paper! These players are REAL consumers, shopping and   
   moving the economy, if they hadn’t lost all our money. Filmon was right wing   
   when he called in gambling for the stupid. Was not the reason for forcing the   
   VLT’s into our homes    
   to protect us from casinos? Were we not warned that if you remove what would   
   normally be consumer dollars from an economy, there would be less there? If   
   you call the gaming commission they take 4%, Manitoba lottery books say 30%,   
   but in truth they take    
   all they take.   
      
   They pull in 191,000,000- (not mentioning 92% casinos and the shut down of   
   Crystal, not enough money in an honest game of cards, and all those losing   
   free $2 ticket tickets) in revenues each year. If you divide revenues by 4813   
   odd machines, 313 odd days    
   a year, holy Christmas, if they return 96%, that’s close to a payout of $3000   
   every day, every machine! Why don’t we take 40%? We could advertise the best   
   odds in North America! It works well in Vegas, where they actually give   
   players a chance with games    
   of chance, and because more than 50% of the players are from out of state. In   
   Oct 97, Nova Scotia gaming Corp. head Ralf Fisk quit claiming his concerns   
   were ignored, and his power was   
   stripped. In Dec 97, 5 of 6 B.C. gaming commissioners quit stating they felt   
   they were made redundant and could provide no significant contribution. I   
   guess the major media doesn’t think this is worth knowing! If your lucky   
   enough to get a hold of any of    
   the receipts that come out when the machines are opened, or tilted, you’ll see   
   that if you count actual game-ply, some bars, are taking 70%+ of the games and   
   giving you all the credit. Churning of credits with many NON- random events,   
   and prize amounts    
   are critical in determining how much is actually removed and returned to our   
   communities. Why don’t we promise a payout of 99.9%, we can still take the   
   same amount of the dollar. Couple extra   
   play 5 win 5 backs, walla! Some gaming (don’t say lottery! VGT’s?) information   
   is classified information, so there are only a small tiny few, who might know   
   all the details, but refuse to tell anyone, some by law or maybe threat.   
      
   They destroy "gaming operations" records (VLT’s and casinos) yearly, but keep   
   employee’s names for fifty! (under MLF0028) Their argument, that makes it   
   illegal, for anyone to publicly disclose the actual dollars, on a site by site   
   basis was "site-holders    
   could gain an unfair advantage if they knew what their competitors were taking   
   in" How? Don’t they already have one? If you average it out, bars are making   
   close to ten grand a machine per year, Just provide an addict a seat, and you   
   can still pay your    
   waitresses minimum wage. People can be addicted to many things like VLT’s or   
   peanuts, and they can be equally motivating, but they have different   
   consequences. It’s nearly impossible to   
   consume 500 dollars worth of peanuts in 2 seconds, and how many entertaining   
   peanuts are there, that leave you smiling and filled with glee? Mr. dealer   
   will you help these addicts see? If you deposit a hundred thousand and then   
   cash out without playing,    
   it’s now short four thousand, and the bars, more flesh for the pound. If these   
   bars were ever caught committing such an act, they’d get a wink and 2 days of   
   profits taken, instead of time in Stony Mountain.   
      
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