{"id":2263,"date":"2010-02-12T15:31:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T23:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2017-11-29T10:21:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T18:21:27","slug":"ycmiu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/ycmiu\/","title":{"rendered":"“YCMIU”"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I learned earlier today, that’s PDA shorthand for “You can’t make it up.” (It was used by Jon Ralston<\/strong> in reference to a certain governor’s claim to 11-plus years of celibacy … but I digress.)<\/p>\n

Actually, maybe you can<\/em> make it up. In Massachusetts<\/strong>, a group called United to Stop Slots<\/strong> (U.S.S., geddit?), has issued a Casino Math Workbook for Beacon Hill<\/em> whose facts and figures, at first glance, look suspiciously like they emanated from someone’s hindquarters. “The report said that for every $1 generated by casinos, it costs taxpayers $3 to deal with increased crime, bankruptcies and other ill effects,” declares The Republican<\/em>, a western Massachusetts newspaper. “The total increased costs of casinos on social services and regional police and other services is not known, showing a need for an independent analysis of the costs and benefits, the report said.”<\/p>\n

Proving that it could talk out of both<\/em> sides of its mouth, USS’ Workbook<\/em> also bemoaned the loss of lottery dollars to casino play. So I guess some forms of gambling are OK-er than others. But back to this matter of $1 of casino revenues = $3 of social costs. Gee whiz! We’ve just figured out how to balance the Nevada<\/strong> budget: Close all the casinos (and slot routes, too)! Why, gosh darn it all, we’ll just be rolling in dough. Who knew?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I learned earlier today, that’s PDA shorthand for “You can’t make it up.” (It was used by Jon Ralston in reference to a certain governor’s claim to 11-plus years of celibacy … but I digress.) Actually, maybe you can … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,112,33,90,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20679,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions\/20679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}