Bristol County Daily News

Its all about how you see it. Gambling! I always loved going to Las Vegas the lights the action the money the drinks the shows the glamour!!! But four days was always more then enough. Anymore then that and the lights fade the drinks are flat and youve seen all the shows you were interested in seeing so when I think about a Casino in New Bedford I just dont think of the glamour. I think about the traffic, the noise, the drinks everyone else will be having and that my family might be on the road when one of those drunken fools who just lost all of their money is driving down the road thinking about how they are going to explain why they cant pay the mortgage this month and not looking as if they could see where they are going and boom my life would be forever change. So when they talk about services for the community I ask what kind of service could you give me if my family has been destroyed. I don't think you could service that! And the honest truth is no matter how much money the casino will bring if just one family is lost it is too many. As I tell my children when we practice our fire drill...don't go back for anything. As long as we all get to our meeting place safe I can buy all the stuff we have in the house at the store. And yes maybe I will lose all my mementos, pictures and baby stuff but I will have my babies and that's what matters. I will choose them every time. So when I think of the city of sin moving in to the town next door I am not thinking it will fix the towns financial woes I am think that I may lose someone I know and love and that the casino isn't the answer I would be looking for. Maybe we should go the other way and move toward simplicity.

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