Nice editorial in today's edition of the Lincoln, Nebraska JournalStar newspaper entitled:
State spending on gambling out of balance
The editiorial does a nice job of pointing out that although the state actually spends in percentage terms more than many other states on treatment of compulsive gamblers, it is still far less than the advertising budget spent promoting play.
The best lines in the editorial?
"It's those people (speaking about the percentage of people who are pathological gamblers or problem gamblers) who are at risk when they hear state government repeat its pro-gambling mantra over and over again: "You can't win if you don't play."
"There's a mirror image of that message — you can't lose if you don't play — but it doesn't get spread by advertising dollars."
Important to remember that second one.
John
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