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Old Posted Feb 29, 2024, 2:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Busy Bee View Post
Little known fact... In FDR's Four Freedoms speech, one of the freedoms was the ability to lose all your money and/or saddle yourself with debt from gambling.

I believe it was George Washington, at his inauguration on Wall Street, who declared that one day this city, this nation, indeed that very street, would one day be crowned by the world’s finest casinos, and all manner of vice. So that free man could prosper in the luxury of liberties.
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