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pipi_k

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6. We certainly do!
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 06:28 PM
Jun 2014

I live in one of the Hilltowns, and while my town wouldn't benefit directly from a casino in Springfield, I do believe it would see some indirect benefits, like when people come in from NY or western VT, etc. Maybe they'll stop in to see the sights in my little rural area...spend some money...help support small businesses here. Because, with very few exceptions, there is NO industry here.

Maybe people staying in the casino hotel(s) would come up this way for some leaf-peeping in the Fall, even.

And yes...Springfield has suffered greatly.

Trouble with those anti casino bozos grinning like fools on TV is that they'll mouth the words, "Well, we need to find other ways, blah blah blah..." but they can NEVER come up with workable plans for revitalization of Springfield, which used to be known as "The City of Homes" but is going pretty quickly down the shitter.

Three years after the tornado of June 1, 2011, there are still sections of the South End that look like a bomb went off there. The South End. Where the proposed casino would be built.

Springfield is dying, very slowly, and very painfully.

And casino opponents don't care.

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