When a country betrays its compact with its citizens and begin to prey on them instead of sound fiscal policy, where are we?
When your spouse, child, parent or friend bankrupts himself/herself because of Gambling Addiction, will you begin to understand? And when they commit a crime to fund that Gambling Addiction or commit SUICIDE, how will you defend wrong-headed policy through your tears and grief?
The Internet as the New Gambling Frontierby Sandy Adell |
No
matter how loud we holler, those of us who oppose gambling have still been
unable to convince our elected officials that legalized gambling to help raise
revenue is a really bad idea. Now some of them are clamoring to legalize
internet gambling. That's going to be disastrous for millions of people in this
country. They won't have to leave the comfort of their favorite easy chair to
lose the millions (maybe billions) of dollars our leaders hope to collect in new
revenue.
Once
this floodgate is opened, there will be no turning back. As I have stated in
other blog posts and during readings and lectures about my book, Confessions
of a Slot Machine Queen: A Memoir, gambling is not a harmless activity. It
already is having very devastating effects on millions of people.
A
recent article in U.S. News & World Report by Daniel
Bortz, is yet another attempt to raise public awareness about the negative
effects of gambling on people who have no idea that it can be deadly addictive.
Fortunately, I found my way out of the labyrinth that is gambling addiction
before it was too late. But what about the millions of people who will get
caught up in and lose everything to gambling once it become just a keystroke
away?
Sandra
Adell, Author, CONFESSIONS OF A SLOT MACHINE QUEEN: A MEMOIR.
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