State lawmakers in Ohio are showing just how hypocritical state governments can be. They spent much effort to ensure that bars and club owners could not profit from skill forms of gambling such as electronic games.

The goal, they claimed at the time of banning these gambling devices, was to clean up the state’s image and to ensure that people were not susceptible to problem gambling.

That was the good, pretend like they care about the people lawmaker. Those same lawmakers are now showing that it was not the gambling they had the problem with, but who was receiving the profits from the gambling machines.

On Monday, bars and restaurants will once again be offering a form of legalized gambling. This time, however, the state lottery will be the ones receiving the profits from the new keno game.

Governor Ted Strickland defended the choice to bring the keno games to the state by saying, "I’m making a distinction that I think is a legitimate distinction between casino gambling or other kinds of gambling in Ohio. And the lottery, which is an activity that has been voted on by the people, has been supported by the people of this state for a long time, and this is an activity that is state-controlled and state regulated..."

State controlled and state regulated only means that it will be the state that will profit from the gambling. People of the state voted on and approved the lottery.

Scratch off tickets and weekly lotto drawings that the people voted on is much different than keno games in which there are 221 drawings a day. That gives people 221 times a day to gamble.

Since most of these games are offered at bars, people who normally would spend four hours in a bar unwinding after work will now have the opportunity to gamble sixty times while they are out.

The Lottery Commission is expecting to have 2,000 outlets in place by the end of the year. That means that the total number of gambling chances for a one hour period would be 30,000. That figure would be if only one person was in each of those bars and playing the keno game.

Clearly, the goal here was to produce a game where the state could steal the most money from their customers and claim because it is regulated that it is actually saving people from problem gambling.

Whatever makes the Governor sleep at night works. Just don’t tell people that this is what the voters had in mind when they voted to legalize the lottery.

Source:http://www.casinogamblingweb.com/