re: Slot machines are sad to me...

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Senior citizens bussed in from the nursing home to dump their child's inheritance.

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This being part of your argument against gambling is ludicrous from the get-go.

First of all, if the nursing home seniors are dropping money in slot machines, then it's THEIR money to do as they please.

If they are old enough to be in a nursing home, then by that supposition, their KIDS should by then be grown adults and in control of their own lives and finances and not still depending on mom or dad to leave them money upon their deaths.

Yeah, pre-arrange the funeral, cremation costs, etc., but there is nothing that says a senior has a responsibility to leave their offspring an inheritance.

And dollars to donuts, old mom and pop are not being visited very regularly by those whom you think deserve to be paid off in the will.