Another GOP push for "values voters" by trying to control how you spend your money

[TheEnforcer]

Every time I read an article like this I get annoyed as all hell. Drives me nuts when these self important assholes try and tell me how I can spend my money. I find internet poker boring so I mainly stick to offline stuff so i would barely notice it other than another fucking intrusion into my rights and privacy. I can't stand "values voters" and their politicians with a passion as their only goal in life is to control your life and make sure you conform to their religious/moral beliefs.


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/wa...4gambling.html


Interest Groups Lining Up to Lobby on Web Gambling
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Published: July 4, 2006
WASHINGTON, July 3 — While Internet gamblers lay down big money on World Cup soccer this summer, teams of lobbyists are facing off on Capitol Hill in a contest over whether the United States should choke off the growth of wagering on the Web.

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Representative Jim Leach, Republican of Iowa, co-sponsor of bill to cut back Internet gambling.

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Faced with bills to curb online betting, which attracts an estimated $12 billion a year in wagers worldwide, an array of interest groups like casinos here and abroad, as well as sports leagues, antigambling coalitions and even poker players, has dispatched lobbyists to argue what should be legal and what should not.

Major League Baseball wants to make sure that any measures do not diminish fantasy sports games, which it credits for a resurgence in its popularity.

The big Las Vegas casinos, which have been neutral over online betting, have embraced a proposal in the House to establish a study commission. Convenience stores are watching to see whether sales of lottery tickets might be affected, though Powerball seems to be safe for now.

The horse racing industry seems sanguine, but dog tracks are worried. Offshore casinos are fighting any restrictions.

The Justice Department has always considered Internet gambling illegal. But that has not stopped online wagering from flourishing.

[TheEnforcer]

BTW- article is two pages long.

[twinkley]

This coming from the same government that supports and promotes state lotteries .... DURRRRRR

One would *think* if gambling was REALLY an issue ... they would work on shutting down the local stuff here in the states before trying to tackle the "computer internets"

twinkley

[TheEnforcer]

Oh, many politicians would shut down gambling locally and in the states if they could. Of cousre the cry of "it's for the kids" and all that other crap is their rallying cry. Annoys the shit out of me.

[Quagmire]

See, if you piss your money away on online gambling then you won't have anything left to piss away on the (state funded) lottery, or buying cheap chinese sweatshop products peddled to you at rock bottom prices at (Wal-mart) a local merchant that (lobbies millions of dollars) employs thousands of americans (at horribly low minimum wage) that props up the (painfully weak at present) US economy.

Maybe i'm a bit jaded because I'm a Canadian looking at the problem from outside of the problem. Or maybe I'm saying it because I've worked in and with the industry for years. If the USA would embrace online gambling and tax and regulate it they would make a mint. The USA could be a complete powerhouse in the online gaming industry if they would raise a nice big middle finger to the religious right and say "fuck you".

[TheEnforcer]

Originally Posted by Quagmire

See, if you piss your money away on online gambling then you won't have anything left to piss away on the (state funded) lottery, or buying cheap chinese sweatshop products peddled to you at rock bottom prices at (Wal-mart) a local merchant that (lobbies millions of dollars) employs thousands of americans (at horribly low minimum wage) that props up the (painfully weak at present) US economy.

Maybe i'm a bit jaded because I'm a Canadian looking at the problem from outside of the problem. Or maybe I'm saying it because I've worked in and with the industry for years. If the USA would embrace online gambling and tax and regulate it they would make a mint. The USA could be a complete powerhouse in the online gaming industry if they would raise a nice big middle finger to the religious right and say "fuck you".

Yeah. but that would mean the GOP would be giving the middle finger to it's largest core of supporters and they wouldn't be able to control your morals and habits like they want to.