When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens

My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy

The gambling industry has a tendency to find public figures ... and these persons are used for their public image. These people generally come in for a couple of years and then they sell out and it's 100 percent owned by out-of-state interests

27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers

A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling

Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the third year the casino is open.

Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos