Government needs to pay more attention to social ills of gambling, expert says

Governments like Pennsylvania's have become revenue-dependent promoters of the gambling industry instead of focusing on how to prevent and address social problems from the spread of casinos, a professor who studies the industry said yesterday. Read More

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I call for a boycott of any business doing business with the slots. I know it will make life harder for use, but remember we must be a light to the world, and if we must practice self denial for the good of society we must. But first we need a list of companies to avoid.

Also I will guess that a lot of the people who go will be those that can not afford it, and will be going hoping to get rich, and loss the money they really need to support their lives.

We Christians must also look at a way we can place some safety net out there to catch these poor people when they fall, so they don't end up on the streets, I doubt the state or the city cares, as long as they get their most important money they don't care whose lives they destroy.

Shaun Pierce said...

I don't know about the boycott idea. The scope is huge. Do we boycott the electric company, soft drink company, any union the takes work (thoat would be just about all of them) and so on. What we need to boycott is our state leadership.

These people will not be husr by our boycotts. We need to work on changing hearts not keeping lists of companies. Guess who gets to clean up the mess when it's all said and done.....