Driving out of Philadelphia, there is a huge billboard designed to make red-blooded males veer off the road - 2700 hot slots. The banner is of course referring to the new penny slot casino opening in nearby Chester PA, and has nothing to do with whatever crossed many testosterone-pumped minds.

More jobs for Chester

The casino is being vaunted as a new source of employment for 1000 Chester locals. There will be hordes of high quality cleaning jobs, of course, and waiter posts, and other university-level opportunities available to the highly qualified residents. The flaw in the plan is that most locals are too accustomed to welfare checks to bother with the annoying detail of cashing pay checks.

The queens of cash, hot working girls, are bound to home in on Chester casino-ville and mingle with the penny pinching gamblers. This should considerably inflate the employment opportunities stemming from the Harrah investment. And with so many tarts in town, perhaps that road-side billboard message is not too far off the mark?

Post Mortem on Chester housing

We should wish the casino every success, as half the revenue from the slots will be passed on to the Pennsylvania Governor for investment in better housing. Another great idea that misses the point.

Instead of new housing, just relocate people from out of Chester into the housing currently occupied by the up-and-coming generation of Chester penny slot addicts. They won't mind, seeing as they only go home once weekly for a change of clothes and a trip to the welfare office for benefits paid out in coins.