Washington – A disappointed US Senator Charles Schumer says he is going to explore every option in his continuing attempts to bring a casino to Sullivan County.
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Late last month, the US Department of Interior rejected an application for the Wisconsin Stockbridge Munsee Band of Mohicans to build a casino and resort in Bridgeville.
Schumer told MidHudsonNews.com on Wednesday that he is not giving up on the idea of locating a gaming operation in Sullivan County.
“The Catskills deserve a casino, want a casino and we are going to look at every possible way to try to bring one here,” he said.
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What’s the point of his persistence?
I don’t care much for him but in this case I wish him hatzlochah. All our surrounding states and the Mafia and the Internet are profiting from the gambling that would go on anyway. Can’t our almost-broke state use the money?
I am against the building of a casino in the Catskills – I think its a very bad idea for our community
If they need jobs there, Schumer should be figuring out ways together with other elected officials to bring manufacturing and “made in USA” back to upstate New York.
The money made by Casinos, and the taxes on that, don’t come from thin air.
Much of the time, it comes from people who cannot otherwise afford it, and the social costs are very high.
Gambling is against the Torah, much more so than wearing glasses that have metal frames.
We all have to pray that he doesnt succeed with his terrible plan.
This argument is LUNACY. I see far more yidden destroying themselves financially through greed and vanity than through gambling.
I see people taking welfare and food stamps while they drive around in $40,000 cars… and eventually I watch those ridiculous vehicles get repossessed. I see people lying about their income to cheat the system to buy houses they can’t afford and eventually get foreclosed on. I watch young men refusing to get proper jobs to support their families out of sheer laziness and sense of entitlement.
My wife and I dabble in gambling. The way it is made out to be here, you would think Atlantic City casinos were filled with frum yidden. They aren’t. Trust me. Cases of extreme gambling addiction are few and far between and these people don’t need casinos to satisfy their compulsions. They are just as happy to find a back-room poker game in Brooklyn.
A little (and I mean a LITTLE) gambling never hurt anyone if it is done for FUN and not as an obsession.
As for the jobs this casino would bring, it is true. There are seasonal jobs for our bochurim even at these casinos. Summers bring a need for landscapers, etc. Are we “above” that kind of work now?