Let's talk about the jail cell I will occupy if I respond to my
customer's demand by following suit and installing slot machines in my
meeting room...

My tribe's name for me is Singing Pipe. Wanna cut a deal with me for making
your hotel a reservation? Or is that making a reservation at your hotel {;-)

These aren't Indian casinos. The state(s) justified allowing
organized gambling casinos by stating that the money would go toward
education. Who could oppose fleecing the stupid amongst us, when it
meant that their money would go for "the children"?

They also limited casinos to river boats. Who could argue against
bringing back cool old paddle-wheel boats, straight out of a Mark
Twain novel?

Last month, local citizens authorized a new 1% local sales tax to --
you guessed it! -- "support the schools". All that gambling money --
and we're talking BILLIONS -- apparently isn't enough to build the
schools we need in Iowa.

And now, after a few years of allowing only river boats, they have
changed the law to state that casinos must be built "on water". Thus,
our new casino hotel is built in the middle of Iowa, far from any
navigable rivers -- on top of giant bags of water. Incredible!

And, in the final coup de grace, there is now a bill before the state
legislature to remove the "on water" requirement. Our new governor
Culver -- firmly in the pocket of organized crime -- is expected to
sign it into law.

We now have 19 casinos in Iowa -- a state with fewer people than the
Chicago metropolitan area.

It is to weep.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"