I know this is going to sound like heresy coming from a fellow gambler, but is the thought of wanting to stop online gambling really such a bad thing? There are a lot of good and bad things this bill presents.
The bad first, this bill makes a very bad statement about of government and its ability to get things passed no matter what, all it takes is someone’s personal agenda. These types of things have been going on forever and as sheep’s we close our eyes until it is something were passionate about.
Secondly its starts a very dangerous cycle, when the Internet begins to be controlled. To block certain websites and even force search engines to block any searches makes me feel like I am in China not the United States.
Gentlemen please understand that I know this bill was not passed to protect the people. If that was the case gambling, of all forms would be eliminated everywhere, but instead its growing everywhere. This all has to do with taxes and money leaving our economy.
Now lets be honest with ourselves it is still gambling. This vice we have is one of the most dangerous addictions out there. I know a lot of you may have it under control and enjoy it responsibly, but for every one that does there is 1000 that don’t.
You see at least with sports betting once the games go off the board your done, even if you need the fix still got to wait to tomorrow. Online poker is always there so long as you have money.
I’m not gonna b/s and talk about how the poor kids and blah blah blah, the truth is a lot of people are pissing away a lot of money. You guys should know best that once we lose we love to chase and we all know how that turns out.
I know we can say the government has no business sticking their nose in it but really they do. Billions of dollars are being lost each yeah by US citizens. That is billions of dollars that are not being spent in the US; you can’t tell me that has no impact on the economy.
With no rules or laws in this world we would be left to control ourselves. We all know that would never work b/c what would stop us from stealing if no consequence? The same thing has happened with online gaming. Left to our own we lost control, went overboard maxing out credit cards, bouncing echecks, disputing charges with our banks. We told them by our actions we cannot control ourselves when it comes to gambling, and to much dismay they responded.
Lets not even think about all the poor suckers that have won money online and never even recieved it. We like to talk about how the internet is great and good but forget that so many of us have been stiffed or screwed around with my the book, simply b/c they can.
I guess what im trying to say is this bill will not stop all gambling. The smart players and the addicted ones will still find ways to play. What this bill will do is prevent the average Joe from losing control. When things get to big to fast the usually explode and that is exactly what is going on people.
The bad first, this bill makes a very bad statement about of government and its ability to get things passed no matter what, all it takes is someone’s personal agenda. These types of things have been going on forever and as sheep’s we close our eyes until it is something were passionate about.
Secondly its starts a very dangerous cycle, when the Internet begins to be controlled. To block certain websites and even force search engines to block any searches makes me feel like I am in China not the United States.
Gentlemen please understand that I know this bill was not passed to protect the people. If that was the case gambling, of all forms would be eliminated everywhere, but instead its growing everywhere. This all has to do with taxes and money leaving our economy.
Now lets be honest with ourselves it is still gambling. This vice we have is one of the most dangerous addictions out there. I know a lot of you may have it under control and enjoy it responsibly, but for every one that does there is 1000 that don’t.
You see at least with sports betting once the games go off the board your done, even if you need the fix still got to wait to tomorrow. Online poker is always there so long as you have money.
I’m not gonna b/s and talk about how the poor kids and blah blah blah, the truth is a lot of people are pissing away a lot of money. You guys should know best that once we lose we love to chase and we all know how that turns out.
I know we can say the government has no business sticking their nose in it but really they do. Billions of dollars are being lost each yeah by US citizens. That is billions of dollars that are not being spent in the US; you can’t tell me that has no impact on the economy.
With no rules or laws in this world we would be left to control ourselves. We all know that would never work b/c what would stop us from stealing if no consequence? The same thing has happened with online gaming. Left to our own we lost control, went overboard maxing out credit cards, bouncing echecks, disputing charges with our banks. We told them by our actions we cannot control ourselves when it comes to gambling, and to much dismay they responded.
Lets not even think about all the poor suckers that have won money online and never even recieved it. We like to talk about how the internet is great and good but forget that so many of us have been stiffed or screwed around with my the book, simply b/c they can.
I guess what im trying to say is this bill will not stop all gambling. The smart players and the addicted ones will still find ways to play. What this bill will do is prevent the average Joe from losing control. When things get to big to fast the usually explode and that is exactly what is going on people.
