Despite the less than estimable advertisements littered throughout the periodical, LA Weekly draws attention to disturbing trends and failures in local and federal government agencies.
One of the most ridiculous, and absolutely hypocritical, is the engaging attack against online poker. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 is one of the crassest yet most compelling examples of how politics as usual cuts out the middle man, the voter, with politicians bluffing to have our best interests in mind, when in fact they want to curry favor with immoral moralist do-gooders and hefty interests, gambling away our future while lining their assured purses at the table. It’s as if Washington, dealing from the bottom of the deck, can read our cards, playing amateur voters while reading our minds and taking our winnings.
Instead of attacking individuals who want to play their luck and push self-confident antes, the federal government ought to quit playing craps with taxpayer money, hedging their bets on bailouts, hedge funds, and overpromised yet unfunded entitlements which are sinking our nation into the hole faster than a rapid fire game of Texas Hold 'Em.
The Republican party lost its way the moment they wanted to play puritan while pushing limited government. Get out of our play pots, get out of our bedrooms. Private vice must be dealt with privately, or it merely becomes a public scandal, broadening state power while wasting our national coffers
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