Quote Originally Posted by Hamtragedy View Post
Casinos are always the winners.

Ask the small businesses who lost business to the casino what they think. Ask the venues that used to host some of those concerts what they think. Ask the bar-owners who lost their smoking customers to the Casinos what they think. Ask the dude who spent all night there trying to win the mortgage, or his daughter's education, back, then flew outta the parking lot at 70 MPH at 7 in the morning, what he thought.

I walked thru the greektown a couple years ago, in the lower level of what used to be trappers alley. Beige and windowless, it is the single most depressing place in the state of Michigan. Screw the casinos. This thread sucks.
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.