tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29507030.post1301417572182469419..comments2023-12-25T20:53:59.459+08:00Comments on A Piece of My Mind: The sports betting licenseGoh Wei Lianghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00183472011202771675noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29507030.post-38777717260770797052010-06-29T04:35:39.815+08:002010-06-29T04:35:39.815+08:00there are things you need to control, there are th...there are things you need to control, there are things you need to prevent.<br /><br />should you control or prevent your siblings from taking drugs?webernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29507030.post-24394480148632410702010-06-22T21:35:37.066+08:002010-06-22T21:35:37.066+08:00I salute your thought 100%, you are truly MCA man....I salute your thought 100%, you are truly MCA man.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29507030.post-19240248663165009782010-06-14T02:47:34.485+08:002010-06-14T02:47:34.485+08:00Dear overseas Chinese friend,
The Chinese swing i...Dear overseas Chinese friend,<br /><br />The Chinese swing is going hard against BN in coming GE13!<br />Indecisive and incompetent leadership is causing our country to stagnate for too long...<br /><br />Every policy Najib has announced so far is either U-turned, pull-backed or postponed.<br />Then shockingly, we are told is just awaiting public feedback only!<br /><br />Is this a way to run government?<br />Then why waste so much money & resources to formulate economic & social policies if everything will be just trial balloons?<br /><br />And you a Chinese MCA member is lecturing and talking down on our Chinese community as "blindly" going against BN government and talking "fairy tales"?!<br /><br />Alot of empty talk and economic mismanagement means there's not many second chances for BN style of "experimentation" with our country's future...<br /><br />BN leaders & members nowadays seems to think the Chinese community has no intelligence to know what's happening to this country. <br /><br />We get our news & analyses from three or four newspapers every day, websites, blogs, friends overseas and local to cross-check situations on the gorund and the world.<br /><br />If you are talking down to your own Chinese community, then it shows how much out-of-touch you & BN have been from the community.<br /><br />~ "Blind & fairy tale" ChineseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29507030.post-61836732741976604882010-06-13T18:39:44.727+08:002010-06-13T18:39:44.727+08:00The problem with legalizing sports gambling is tha...The problem with legalizing sports gambling is that it 'opens' up the activity to everyone. In the past only hardcore gamblers would risk getting caught or burned by using illegal bookies. The common Malaysian with no contacts to illegal bookies nor the stomach to run afoul with the law would not bother risking their time and money on illegal sports betting.<br /><br />With legalized sports gambling,we may be converting 1/3 of illegal gamblers to the legal avenue. But the real danger is that we are also going to convert a whole new group of previously non-gamblers to become new gamblers. <br /><br />That is the danger that UMNO-BN has unfortunately chosen not to mention (nor have they mentioned any safeguards against such an event). Legalizing sports gambling is going to lead to the creation of brand new gambling addicts in our society. <br /><br />Unless BN-UMNO has same amazing new law that says only persons that used to use illegal bookies can bet in the new legalized sports betting. How can BN claim that the whole purpose of legalized sports gambling is merely to 'convert illegal gamblers to legal?<br /> <br />We might as well legalize prostitution like how Singapore does. People are going to visit illegal prostitutes anyway right?<br />Why not collect tax money and as well as provide better monitoring of the activity instead? I mean, we are just converting 1/3 of those that frequent illegal brothels to switch to legal brothels only after all.<br /><br />Isn't the fallacy of such argument obvious?katdognoreply@blogger.com