Originally Posted by
jerrytimes
Really? Now while I don't think that the Detroit area needs any more casinos, how can you say that downtown was better off before? Sure, the new stadiums have brought more to help revitalize the area, but thousands of people go downtown daily that normally wouldn't. I'm one of them, and I don't go to gamble often, but I like going to Greektown casino for other reasons. Sure, I'll drop $20 in some slots, but that's about it. I'd never stepped foot in a single Greektown restaurant before the casino was there, now, I do at least once a month.
The complaint about the smokers leaving, that's something that you should be mad at the state about. You should be able to smoke wherever a bar owner wants to allow you too. I know that casinos begged for that, but the government did it. Also, the guy losing his house because of a gambling addiction, oh well. That's that persons problem. If the casinos weren't here, he/she would do that at a different one. The casinos employ tens of thousands of people, not only in Detroit but also in the USA.