Congress Bans Internet Gambling

Agreed. How hypocritical of them - they gamble with our tax dollars every time they are in session, so to speak. Oh, wait. I take that back. They don't gamble at all, they just throw our tax dollars away for the pork and their own little special interests. :BangHead: Apparently the gaming industry doesn't have a powerful enough lobby in Washington DC yet.... (sigh)

 

Yeah, next thing you know they will out law murder... how dare they pass laws that protect citizens....

Who do they think they are?

 

There goes the "theory" of small/limited government. Bush and the republicans lied about their desire to shrink the size of the federal government. I find it interesting that many "conservatives" don't really want small government. They, like the liberals, want a government that is large and that controls various aspects of people's lives. However the conservatives just want that done in a "conservative" way. So I no longer believe republicans when I hear them talk about their desire to see a smaller government. Why? Because they don't really want smaller government. Very few people "really" want smaller government.

 

So, when did gambling and murder become synonymous?

 

Tim, I see a big difference in murder and gambling. Murder is something done to another individual, taking away their right to life. Gambling is a passtime that is a private decision. The government cannot protect us from ourselves, nor should it. I don't want them intruding on my personal liberty except where it impacts the rights of others. Personal decisions about how I spend my money is not the government's business, whether I give it to charity, spend it all on myself, or gamble it all away. I am an adult, I don't need nor want, Uncle Sam to be my dad.

 

We live in a country where cigarette companies are praying on and misleading smokers. But the gambling industry is innocent of any such charges. Irony or hypocracy?

 

Point seen, but how many families and children have been hurt by gambling? And internet gambling is getting bigger and bigger.

I'm sorry if you don't see it as something that needs controlled... I do.
But, hey that is what is great about America.... all different opinions.

 

Tim,

I agree with you. I am guessing that some folks have never experienced or known someone who has experienced the joys of growing up with a parent who routinely blew entire paychecks on gambling while their family suffered in wretched poverty. I know someone just like that. They aren't as concerned with personal liberty as some people on here are.

Joseph Botwinick

 

But when your business starts spillin over into my business, or hurting innocent people, then it becomes my business.

Would you say the same thing about child abuse? I have heard that same line about that subject. And Gambling can lead to spousal and child abuse, I have seen it. Families are destroyed, children are hurt, and more people become dependant on the state. And that becomes my business because my taxes then pay for it....

Who is it that buys lottery tickets? I used to work at a convenience store, it was always the poor that bought them... They would buy food with food stamps, and then $20 worth of lottery tickets, only to lose their money. And have 4 kids that were wearing clothes with holes in them!

Gambling hurts others. And is the lazy man's way of "Gettin rich"
God says to work. Work we should.

 

Does that mean you could care less about the little children who live in wretched poverty because their parents gamble their whole paychecks away each week? Not surprising for an isolationist to not care about the pain and suffering of others. It isn't a very Christian attitude, however.

Joseph Botwinick

 

pre-emptive strike:

Someone at some point will answer a question in here by replying,

"You bet!"

It won't be funny then, either.

Back to the fight...

 

It is abuse when another person (the child) is forced to live in wretched poverty because of your addiction to gambling. But hey, that's somebody else's "internal problem" as the immoral isolationists like to say as they turn a blind eye to the suffering of others, thank God it hasn't happened to them for blessing them, and then say it's not my problem and quote the original isolationist "Am I my brother's keeper".

Joseph Botwinick

 

I wouldn't bet on it!

 

So let's just throw away all of our laws....
It's nobody's business what I do anyway...

If I decide to gamble, steal, cheat, not wear a seat belt, it is my business. Who cares if it hurts others.... especially children.

It amazes me that Christians will not stand against sin.
I bet there are a lot of Christians out there that gamble as well.

amazing.

probably the same ones that will vote for a pro choice candidate and claim it is none of their business if a baby is murdered.

God help our souls, and nation... we need it when even the Christians are blinded to the truth.

 

Was that a yes, you don't care?

Joseph Botwinick