The people who have visions of making millions on one roll of the dice are out of workDow Jones reports that the overall take on the Las Vegas Strip was down 23% to $474 million in December. Las Vegas has become like the rest of America. If most large American banks were based in Las Vegas they would still be buying toxic paper and lending money for leveraged buyouts. It would be too easy to say that the Las Vegas culture slipped out of the city and ended up at the lower tip of Manhattan. But, when a man who stays up all night gambling won’t buy a car, the economy is in deep trouble.