Friday, April 22, 2005
As we all know, the Singapore government has just announced that not one, but 2 intergrated resorts aka casino will be built. I personally am not pleased and quite pissed that they announced it on my bday. But that is not the point, the point is that Spore is a 'democratic' country. The way the issue was handled has led me to believe that the government had made its decision way before the hype and all the debates & forums were just for show. If the NKF show was a circus, this could be a theatrical production. (I love my country but there are times I have no choice but to wash some dirty linen in public)
I had thought that early in the 'discussion', the incident where this man killed his whole family before committing suicide because he incurred debts he couldn't repay from gambling, was a clear sign to everyone from God that a casino is a VERY bad idea. But no, they just treated it as an isolated case(yea, since the whole family has been eradicated, so if the instinct to kill is hereditary, no worries there... as if) and it wasnt mentioned anymore. Now the government is offering a cool 1 million dollars to educate the public of the ills of gambling and urging counselling centres to help those addicted to gambling. All these after they announce that they will be building 2 casinos. I honestly do not know whether to laugh or cry about it. Its like they inject a patient with the HIV virus and administer anti-AIDs drugs to prevent the patient from developing AIDS. However eventually the patient still dies from AIDs related diseases cuz there aint no cure for AIDs yet. Sounds dumb right? But to me its seems like that is exactly what the Spore government is doing.Sigh...
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