Internet Gambling a new way to fund the state budget !

Internet Gambling a new way to fund the state budget !
Lake Worth, FL Thursday, April 05, 2012

Arnie Wexler one of the foremost experts on gambling addiction and a recovering gambler who placed his last bet on 4/10/68

Would like to share his thought on inter net gambling

The younger a person starts gambling the greater the risk of becoming addicted to Gambling.

Arnie Wexler, said legalizing inter net gambling would create more addicts, especially among minors, without providing sufficient resources for their treatment.

"A lot of these young kids that know the computer inside out are going to find a way to start gambling," Wexler said. "How are they going to prevent (underage gambling)?

"The biggest problem I have with Internet gambling is how do you stop kids," Arnie Wexler said. "The Internet is the quickest, fastest way to addiction."

How are you going to control the 16-year-old kid from placing a bet?"

""I get calls from parents and kids,on my help line 888 LAST BET some as young as 14, every week.This internet gambling / poker has exploded. I've never seen anything explode like this has in the last few years

Gambling addiction is an impulse addiction people will get up in the middle of the night and don't even have to take off their pajamas (to gamble online). They can stay in bed and destroy themselves."

Its easier today to place a bet on a college campus or

on the inter net than it is to buy a pack of cigarettes or a can of beer."

"It's about time the legislators took their head out of the sand and start understanding the problems of compulsive gambling, "When is the state going to stop trying to use gambling to fix all of the government's ills?"

ARNIE WEXLER CCGC

LAKE WORTH FLORIDA