Gambling with your money

The blessed souls living in sunny quake-prone California are fervently looking forward to next Tuesday. Besides the string of primary elections, Californians will see the end (for now) of those annoying commercials that sell the virtues or ills of gambling. Gambling in the West has become a source of revenue for an ever expending government so the Governor and Indian tribes have partnered to expand the number of slot machines in the Golden state in exchange for sharing millions of revenues. Although self-reliance for Indian tribes has strong electoral support, it is rather amusing to see gambling being sold as a benefit to the people of California. The state politicians who pass every year law after law to ‘protect’ the good citizens of the state seem to have no qualms about authorizing up thousands of slot machines as long as it allows them to spend even more money to “save” helpless taxpayers. So Californians Help your state: Off you go gamble that paycheck.