Posted on 10/13/2006 5:03:36 PM PDT by KDD
You've still got some money LEFT!?
Memo to Agent 329:
Track down this dudes ISP and let's just relieve him of having to figger out what to spend his remainder on...
Now you've finally made a correct statement. Morality is about freely doing what God wants not about being coerced to do what the government wants.
So you think abortion is ok, also? That's a choice issue too. And please don't tell me that abortion is different because gambling destroys lives too, and not just the one gambling.
Not the way of the political animal with the big horny snout.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll516.xml
The GOP? The Vote was 409-2..190 of those voting for the ban were Democrats. 218 were pubbies. They are equal opportunity panderers.
BTW, I, think the internet gambling ban had more to do with the casinos, than saving our souls.
DING! DING! DING!
We have a winner!
This was all about raising money in DC. If we could figure out how to make deporting illegal immigrants into a moneymaker for FedGov, the problem will be solved in less than a fortnight.
The campaign contributions from the domestic gamblinig interests was really just icing on the cake.
Because Frist attached to a port security bill, which nobody was going to vote against.
IMO, we should close their casinos at home, while they're closing gambling with online casinos.
So you think abortion is ok, also?
I don't know anyone who thinks an abortion is "OK", do you?
I think it's more than just the casinos, but all of it has to do with money. If I read my history correctly, we used to have politicians and bureaucrats who assumed the authority to save souls, and it got ugly.
Of course not, and if you'd read my post more carefully you'd understand that I was arguing just the opposite.
As I said, the mandate of government is not to get rid of every - or any - evil just for the sake of doing so, but to protect society, which results in evil being curtailed.
Anyone who think this law was passed to enforce moral code is either hopelessly naive or hopelessly trusting. This was strictly about $$$$$$$$$$$.
By the way, like drug abuse, gambling has been found to most adversly effect the poor and lower class more so than the rest of society.So the people who can afford it the least are hurt the most.
Yep. Only the better-educated, upper classes patronize betting scams like this.
Does the state make them blow their meager income playing the Lotto?
C'mon, Jorge, this is too easy. The hypocrisy of this bill is thick enough to cut with a knife.
It's enough to make me want to learn poker just so I can break this fricken law.
Public records show the NFL has spent more than $3m on lobbying since 1998. Last year, it paid one Washington company, Covington & Burling, $700,000 to lobby on gambling and other issues. Two of its lobbyists, Martin Gold and Bill Wichterman, are former senior aides to Dr Frist.
Gamble away. Just change the bankruptcy protection laws. Every penny must be repaid, with interest. Hold the spouse and the children liable (Hey, they all stood to gain, didn't they? Then they all deserve to lose.)
Gambling away the nest egg is not the problem. Gambling away money borrowed from credit cards and other sources drives up MY interest rates and other costs.
Change the bankruptcy protection laws. ALL money must be repaid with interest.
Cool! Send me $100 and call heads or tails. I'll let you know if you won.
This oughtta be called the National Internet Gambling Authorization Act.
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