...and I am still clinching my teeth at this man.. NAACP President, this one in particular needs to just SHUT THE HELL UP.

It's people just like this in this articlle that makes me want to blow chunks. If the poor are on limited incomes so what? Is it anyone's fault if you take your money out and shove it in a slot machine and go without the necessities of life? Come on now. If you want to waste your money foolishly you can do it in many forms besides gambling. How about cigarettes? How about alcohol and drugs? Yes, jerks like this make me ill.. people who have control of their money won't be hurt. If you can't do the right thing with your funds why should others who enjoy slots be punished because of morons who don't know how to budget?

I've gone to Connecticut, Delaware and Atlantic City to gamble which I find fun fun fun. My in-laws in their 80s gamble maybe $75.00 a month in Atlantic City. Buses leave the Washington, DC metropolitan daily with a bunch of old people on the bus going to Atlantic City, NJ. I'm 58 years old and I'm planning my 2008 trip to Vegas and Atlantic City. People will buy lottery tickets and scratch-off and they are still gambling. What does crime have to do with gambling? Hell, we don't have casinos, but we have CRIME. So what the hell are they talking about crime!!! Maybe if we had more revenue coming into our state of Maryland, we could afford to keep the crime down by hiring more officers, etc, and the little man wouldn't be caught in the deficit. How much more money is going to be taken from our paychecks. Maybe the NAACP should pay the deficit.

NAACP is dumb for lashing out on this issue. They just want the gap of debt of the state get wider. The slots would be place places like Race Horse Tracks, where gambling is already being taken place. The money from slots would help with the debt. Unless the NAACP just want the state to tax the citizen of the state instead to make up for the debt.

Well, when I go buy my Power Ball or Mega-Million tickets at the lottery outlets, I see no shortage of black folks with their "Dream Books" in hand, and their multi-page lists of numbers to play.

So, tell me NAACP, what is the difference if they spend it on the Lotteries, or one-armed bandits? If they gonna gamble, they gonna gamble.

The money they will spend is already coming from the state so insted of drugs and alcohol it will go towards my kids school or open space that I can use. I see this as a trickey way for the state to get their money back and use it for good...

Sorry dot but this is one time when I actually agree with the NAACP. BTW, not all low-income families are of color. Many who frequent casinos are elderly persons living on fixed incomes. Many go there out of desperation to try and get more funds for medicine, living costs, etc. Is it sound? No. But why invite the "alcoholic" to an open bar?

Ok, it is obvious who NAACP is representing and to whom they are referring when they say "legal slot machines in the state would be devastating for low-income people." Sorry about your problems, but hey- Slots would bring more revenue to the state, therefore helping me and my fellow middle-class WORKING neighbors continue to pay for you low-to-no-income welfare recipients.

If you can not afford to play, then stay away. Let any financial relief come into the state however it can to help us working folk. Simple as that.

We deserve a break once in a while.