The Senate health committee advanced the bill to close the loophole which allows smoking in casinos. This loophole should never have been there in the first place; hopefully this will go through.
Meanwhile, the casinos are attempting to find ways to make everyone happy, such as unstaffed non-gaming smoking lounges. That way, no employees will have to be exposed to the smoke, right? Just like they aren't with nonsmoking rooms in restaurants, I'm sure. Apparently, they'll clear them out before employees are sent in to clean them. (Fat chance of that happening.)
While all this goes on, the casinos are under a deadline of April 15th to make 75% of their casino floor smoke-free. I almost feel sorry for the casinos here; the improvements to their floors will cost a lot of money and they aren't sure if or what they have to do.
Let me repeat, I almost feel sorry for them for not knowing what they have to do. If they gave a fig about their employees, maybe we could feel bad for them.
3 comments:
>At least they're trying
That might be one description of what they are doing. I describe it as using the guns of government to steal value from the casinos and put themselves more firmly in control.
>close the loophole which allows smoking in casinos
Since the casino is presumably private property, why does the gooferment presume to tell them what they can and can not do
>This loophole should never have been there in the first place
Please this is the "boiling a frog" strategy. They are just turning up the temperature.
>no employees will have to be exposed to the smoke
You make it sound like the poor employees are too stupid to seek work that suits them elsewhere.
>I almost feel sorry for the casinos here
But, not enough to leave them alone in peace to make people happy.
>they gave a fig about their employees
Hard to run a casino without employees. If the employees were as upset as you are, they'd seek other employment. This would force the casinos to compete for labor and offer more and better.
>maybe we could feel bad for them.
I feel bad for us. When the thugs in Trenton get tired of the casinos, or when the casinos go broke, (the silver city casino in lv went smokeless in an attempt to compete and closed when it went broke), then they will have to raise money from somewhere. Guess who'll have to pay more? And, if they can tell the casinos "no smoking", then why not inyour house? And, if they can legislate their morality about smoking, then why not fast foods, or slow foods, or what you watch on TV, or anything.
No, feel bad for us. Those thugs are robbing us blind, imprisoning us, and enforcing their will on us.
It's immoral.
There's a saying that goes something like "The hallmark of a bad idea is when you have to force people to conform". Good ideas are adopted willingly. Bad ideas are circumvented.
I'm not doing this again.
See this discussion.
Ay. yi. yi.
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