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Originally Posted by chillrob
The government is right to fear that.
I agree. But if I have a problem with an evil business, I don't have the (unrealistic) complaint that it should be responsive to the public. On the flip side, when I have a problem with the government, I have the (realistic) expectation that it should be responsive to the public.
It's mind boggling to me that people have exactly the opposite expectations, that a for profit company is going to sit down with critics and work out a compromise solution, while the government should tell critics to go **** themselves.
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Unfortunately, the laws do nothing in that regard as they're too antiquated and recent lawmakers either don't care enough to fix them, don't understand the system themselves, or are corrupt.
I mean basically we elected a bunch of people that represent us pretty well.
Honestly, what percentage of voters could accurately identify the number of zeros in a million/billion/trillion? Like if in the Austin Powers movie where Dr. Evil wants to blackmail the world for ONE MILLION DOLLARS and his son tells him that's not a lot, and Dr. Evil revised his blackmail to ONE BILLION DOLLARS, half of the audience would be confused.
So when we elect dumb ****s that can't balance a budget, it's not a huge surprise.
If we want reasonable legislation on gambling, we have to elect people who understand math.