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

For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy

Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy

The lightning spread of 'Western-style' gambling overseas has increased the problems of addicted and problem gamblers, organized crime and alleged corruption in Asia and the Middle East

Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

For every dollar of revenue generated by gambling, taxpayers must pay at least $3 in increased criminal justice costs, social welfare expenses, high regulatory costs, and increased infrastructure expenditures

Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines