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• 1 Allison Booth // Dec 12, 2009 at 9:23 am

  There is no no, we need slots at Kentucky Racetracks to compete for $450 million we are losing to ‘out of state’ gambling. We need as many wealthy republician horse people to lean on their republician officials in office in Frankfort. You are allowing the signature equine industry with over 100,000 ‘green’ jobs to be stolen away.

• 2 Conservative // Dec 12, 2009 at 12:25 pm

  How many of those alleged 100,000 jobs are held by illegal immigrants?

• 3 jake // Dec 12, 2009 at 12:26 pm

  Not sure.

  How many illegals are there at JBS Swift and other similar companies in Kentucky that Republicans have a boner for?

• 4 Thunder Storm // Dec 12, 2009 at 1:04 pm

  Conservative,
  Probably 98% but …
  Its cause Whitey won’t get off his fat welfare foodstamp drawing ass and go to work.

  Kentucky get $1.58 in fed dollars for every fed dollar we pay

• 5 frank mitchell // Dec 12, 2009 at 1:16 pm

  Although there have to be a few illegal workers somewhere, all the farms that I’m quite familiar with (say three or four dozen) are run by straight-arrow businessmen who have too much to lose to monkey around with the INS.

  Only a handful of those farms are owned by millionaires, who have worked 20 or 30 years to earn that distinction. Many of the rest are making a good living, and some are not.

  Even so, every farm is paying taxes right and left, as well as enriching the local economy by providing work for farriers, vets, feed men and others who then plow that income back in to automobiles, homes, clothing, equipment, building supplies, restaurants, and everything else in the community.

  So, whether the horse industry employs 50,000 people or 250,000, the number affected and benefitted by all the jobs and businesses, tourism and taxes is a simple number. It’s EVERYONE.

  Let’s stand up and say it out loud: THE HORSE BUSINESS IS A GOOD BUSINESS, AND EVERYONE IN KENTUCKY OUGHT TO REALIZE THAT IT IS GOOD FOR THEM ALSO.

  Best regards,
  Frank

• 6 E // Dec 12, 2009 at 1:32 pm

  I have to wonder, of all the money that video games will supposedly be generated, how much of it will actually find it’s way to those (supposed) 100, 000 people…and how much of it will go to the top 100 or so players in the horse industry?
  Yeah…like the owners are going to be passing that windfall on to the stable hands.

  Same goes for the video game operators. Hell, it’s video games terminals after all…They won’t even have to hire dealers, just money changers!

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