The Winning Hand: West End Times Article - October 17, 2009
No American citizen ever admits to having voted for Richard M. Nixon as Prez in the 70's. But he won!
No Canadian citizen ever admits to having voted for Brian Mulroney as our P.M. in the Mid 80's. But he won!
No Québécois ever admits (rarely) to buying lottery tickets or going to 1 of our 4 provincially run casinos. But they do!
Can someone, anyone, please explain, though, why Lotto Quebec does such a bang up business, and that the Powers That Be at the head office on Sherbrooke Street, here in Montreal, feel the market is almost saturated with ‘players’, A.K.A. "losers"...YES...LOSERS...that they (us) now have a vested interest in the lottery business in France?
Yup, Mais Oui...We now have a stake in the French country as operators of their country’s casino business, because we are so good at emptying peoples’ pockets...better than Oliver, of movie fame with the same name. We are better marketers of the casino trade than snow removal experts with 100's of years of experience, and better hucksters plying the trade of ALL casino and lottery games, than we are at pothole fixing.
Give me a break!
756,983,000 gazillion dollars...it’s not enough?
756,984,000 gazillion dollars...now THAT'S A BUSINESS!?
Give me another break!
Imagine our province being the innovators and leaders in the scientific world or the pharmaceutical world? A province for making a world class car beyond efficient on gas. Quebec, known for building indoor covered stadiums that cost a reasonable amount (you know, something under a billion or so...) is a land rich in resources, and poor in savings; a land proud of poutine, but poor in social services; a land that has its language police in order, but its police department, out of order; a city where a sign for selling coffee must have French words EXACTLY double-double the size of the same words in English...but has casinos well signed in both languages... BECAUSE IT’S BUSINESS. The English have money, so let them lose it in either language...MON DIEU...!
This place we call Quebec is full of overzealous people who will rip, rape, zip, take and pull out as much CA$H from its citizens’ pockets, as humanly (inhumanly) possible.
Gamble. But gamble less. Slowly. Use your head. We give these thieves in Quebec, Quebec enough of our money. Don't hand it to them on a silver platter, for God’s sake!
And please stop denying you go to the casino or buy Lotto tickets...because SOMEONE is...almost 6 billion dollars a year worth!
Man, that's 24 billion quarters...almost enough quarters to park downtown for a couple of hours!
De-nile...And so the river flows...with our money...
De-nile...And so the river flows...with our money...
