Sports betting

 How to get rich. When the money goes by take a pinch. That is the essence of sports betting, casinos, and insurance. The New York Times today has a big article on sports betting. There are hundreds of ways to rape the Hoopleheads, and they have taken a beating. Republicans steal from the Hooples with tax breaks for the rich. Merely tell the Hooples a story about trickle down. Then investment industry robs billions by managing peoples money. What they manage is to steal billions. Then there are the credit card companies. 

To create any illusion you need believers. At the casino there is the story about the grandma who hit the big one. Then the lottery has some guy get almost two billion. Next week it will be me. The oldest scheme was to sell heaven. That one still works. All con men know the basics. First, tell people what they want to hear. Next show them someone who benefited from the scam. Oh yes, the good old ponzi scheme. 

Back to the new sports betting fiasco. The first step was to bribe all the legislators. The legislators in old times were supposed to protect the Hooples from themselves. It used to be good people knew that a Hoople with a dollar in his pocket was easy picking. Feed them lies. Trump mastered that. Most of the Hooples don't realize they have gone backwards to benefit the billionaires. Real wages have declined by over 12% for the Hooples. Frank and Jeff B. are in a daze wanting to be abused more by the Republicans. 

Health care in the United States is one of the biggest rip offs in the world. Very little of the money spent for health care goes for caring, instead it is soaked up by insurance companies, and the pharmaceutical industry. Just like sports betting it is just a matter of bribing some congressmen to let you rape the Hoopleheads. 

Now for the icing on the cake. Keeping the Hoopleheads dazed and confused is not only the role of Fox News, but Fox News makes money feeding the Hooples nonsense. Wait, you want candles on the cake. No problem. All the right wing propaganda get to sell the victims gold scams, pillow scams, credit card protection scams and of course worthless vitamins. 

In the old days when Kadizzle was a kid the Fulton Carnival was a big event. A bunch of derelicts rolled into town and set up tents to shake down the locals. Kadizzle remembers one of the games. You tossed quarters onto a pile of glassware. There were wine glasses, plates, and a lot of what appeared to be nice glass ware. If your quarter stayed on the plate or in the cup you got to keep it. Someone explained to Kadizzle that the plates and glassware cost about a nickel a piece.  No matter what happened you lost. 

A friend recently thought he had it made when his truck broke down. He had purchased an extended warranty for 90 dollars a month. Confidently he took the truck to a local car dealer only to find out the warranty was worthless. The poor guy and his wife are busted flat. A life of work and the scammers are still beating on the guy. The real crime of the scammers is they love old people. Old people grew up on old fashioned trust. In the old days more people were inclined to be honest. Now, Trump has shown them you can become president by lying to stupid people. Sadly other like Ted Cruz are practicing the art of lying to get ahead. The recent election showed the power of deception. 

Time for a second cup of coffee. Kadizzle went to be way to early so up early today with a coffee buzz. The kids will be here today.