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Bob Wise: If I could add to that, ``If you're not rich, don't play,'' that, ``If you're very poor, you'll have to pay.''

On the recordMarch 6, 1995
If I could add to that, ``If you're not rich, don't play,'' that, ``If you're very poor, you'll have to pay.''
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Bob Wise
West Virginia

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Discussing the implications of gambling and its impact on the poor.

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