We’ll start with the sweet stuff and move on from there later. I mean we can’t just ban eating altogether, yet. To be honest, those Ben and Jerry guys were just a little too fat for our liking anyway—same with those pizza guys. If they all could have just stayed skinny like Mrs. Fields we wouldn’t have to do this.
This of course will be buried in the back of the bill so no one even notices it’s been passed until it is too late. You see maybe twenty five or thirty years ago this all could have been justified but today I just don’t see it.
When I leave the downtown area of Chicago, I see billboards early and often advertising a land based or river boat casino close by. I see race tracks and OTB outlets. I see Lottery sales on almost every street corner inside the city as well. I don’t just see this here in Illinois or neighboring Indiana, I see this everywhere I travel.
Sports books are not the norm and in the United States, they are currently only legal in Nevada but casino gambling is everywhere. So according to congress, U.S. based companies can have casinos in any state that says it’s O.K. or to open a horse or dog racing establishment but people are not allowed to bet on their sport of choice?
To me, betting is betting, gambling is gambling. Are some forms of gambling more dangerous than others? Maybe, but I doubt it.
We know that a Baskin Robbins Oreo Milkshake is north of 120 fat grams and 2200 calories and a Chipotle Chicken Burrito is 60+ fat grams and north of 1400 calories, yet, I guess this is better for us than plunking down a few bucks to see if we are right in our assessment that a certain team can beat another certain team on a given Saturday.
Like I said at the beginning, this is more about consistency and freedom of choice than anything else. I just get that eerie feeling that maybe someone at the offshore books didn’t make the checks large enough before slipping them in the congressmen’s pockets.
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