incrediBILL - 7:42 pm on May 5, 2009 (gmt 0)

We have an economic disaster in the works and these morons running the country want to enable everyone to max out their credit cards and empty their bank accounts into gambling sites.

This is completely idiotic and financially irresponsible but considering the government can't control it's own spending, they might as well allow someone sitting home in their underwear join the party, spend beyond their means on non-essentials, and help send foreclosures and unemployment into a fever pitch high.

Don't get me wrong, I gamble all the time in the real world, when you're done you go home.

However, having tried online gaming a couple of times I found the convenience of it way to easy to blow $10K in a weekend without even trying. It's not like you have to go home to feed the cat, do laundry, deal with the kids, you're already there.

At the time I did that, I could afford it, many cannot.

Free sites or annual subscription sites where you pay a one-time fee to play all year or for a month, fine, but when each bet is racking up more debt, not so fine.

Now people sitting at home playing won't have money to go out and play and there's already more casinos than people that can support them already so watch what happens when the casino industry starts to collapse, hotels close, etc.

Yup, let's just shoot the casino economy in the foot and put more in the unemployment lines.