eyelessinlima.com Letters to the Editor for
Dummies...
...05/24/2026...
In 2023, the U.S. gambling industry generated about $18.2 billion in
online sports betting revenue and $44.9 billion in total casino gaming
revenue (worldmetrics.org). Adding $96.7 billion, the total gambling
market size was roughly $159.8 billion in 2023 (worldmetrics.org).
Gaming losses by Americans now exceed 100 billion. Illegal gambling
figures probably come close to legal figures, and the loss through the conduct
of gambling addicts, mainly theft, are probably as astronomical as
those of other junkies.
If every drug addict (who number 48 million - give or take a million
or so) in the U.S. spent
a dollar ($1) on junk every day, in a year, the sum would amount to
$17,520,000,000. Think of what the sum is if the monkey on his back goes
into double figures - or triple. That's a lot of cash flow.
Opium, as heroin, comes out of the Asian shithole "Golden Triangle," Cocaine,
out of 3 shithole countries in South America into the world in
serious tonnage. The U.S's only open market is for junk and is probably the biggest.
In this country's more benevolent
days, this government
admitted that they deigned to bomb or set fire to the poppy and coca fields
because it would have a disastrous effect on those country's economies. It wouldn't
do this country any good either. Because promises have become legal tender. Do you
wonder why the public nest egg is diminishing?
The "War on Drugs" has always been a lingering pretense of American Puritanism,
as was once the dismay with gambling. The roulette wheel and the lotto,
carrots dangling frontwards of the guy who can't sing or play the guitar,
promise him a chance at the big time. Dream on.
Drugs make him live the fantasy. But the union of these two streams form a river
of cash that neither the government nor the wrong kind of hands can resist dipping
into. All that money doesn't appear to be going towards any decent end.
Fire is raging at the four corners of this land; earth, wind and rain are
tearing at its heart. Whole towns are disappearing.
The cost of living
can't be measured in dollars alone. Morons with guns are hunting us. Faith in our
institutions: medicine, education, the law etal, is under constant attack.
People who once had $1/4 million homes are sleeping in shelters.
The Golden Age of America is upon us. Let's not do a body
count again.
Let the good times roll! Noe.