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Will Aqueduct
Ever See Slot Machines?
There
are some that think that the idea of
slot machines at
New York’s
Aqueduct race track is simply an old
wives’ tale. They say that for eight
years they have been hearing that slot
machines are coming in, and yet every
time they turn around something else
happens so that this doesn’t really
happen. This time it seemed like they
were really getting close to having it
happen, and there was a contract and
everything to make it so. However, as
you can see from the news reports, the
slot machines just couldn’t get off of
the ground.
Perhaps they are simply doomed to not
have slot machines. Some don’t think
that this is necessarily a bad thing.
There are those that think that all of
these delays mean something – that the
state is not meant to have them. They
say that they have already seen the
beginnings of corruption surrounding
them, so why risk fate and bring them
in?
But
the state of New York understands that
there is a lot of money at stake, which
is why they are so interested in it.
They know that every day that they don’t
have slot machines is hundreds of
thousands of dollars that they will not
be able to get back. And the fact that
it has taken them eight years already
and they still don’t have slot machines
up and running means that millions of
dollars has been wasted that could have
gone to very needy programs in the
state.
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