A few hours ago, I saw a notice about the cutting off of credit card acceptance at
www.ebetusa.com , which is a subsidiary of Penn National Gaming Inc.
It seems this is U.S. Federal politicians not using common sense again. One of my favorite acronyms that describe politicians, is that at least 80% of them suffer from at least one of the symptoms of 'GASSS' (from the first letters of these symptoms):
1. GREEDY
2. ARROGANT
3. STUPID
4. SPINELESS
5. SPENDTHRIFT
--In this case, in my opinion, Item # 3 is front and centre. How stupid can they get? Horse players want the convenience of betting the ponies online, and don't want to wait a week for their money order to arrive via snail mail at their favorite ADW....thus they like the option of funding their account with a credit card, because the money goes in their account almost immediately.
--Hello U.S. Federal politicians!..if you're worried gambling on the internet is
ruining people's lives...yes I agree if you want to shut down credit card usage for funding casino gambling online, but that Feds should also ban the usage of debit cards at walk-in casinos.
As a matter of fact, if the U.S. Federal politicians (and Canadians ones too) want to make a difference in peoples lives, they should ban casinos (including slot machines everywhere) altogether in Canada and USA, and just allow casinos in Nevada and at Atlantic City in New Jersey. This way, people
living in communities without casino-type gambling, would spend more on regular businesses, thus bringing prosperity and jobs for their area.
In my opinion, casino gambling causes far more financial and social problems for the addicted ones and their families, than betting on horse races. I beg to differ about all false promotions about how allowing a new casino in your area will bring prosperity to your community, and how part of the casino profits will provide a lot more government programs for the needy. Give me a break! I'd dare to venture, that for every dollar that governments haul in on casino gambling profits, that they spend three dollars to fix social problems caused by casino gambling addictions.
T2W
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~"Common sense isn't so common."
--Voltaire
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