Gambling alias gaming Written by Archbishop Oscar V.Cruz

Gambling alias gaming

• Written by  Archbishop Oscar V.Cruz
• Thursday, 26 July 2012 

Call it hypocrisy, duplicity or falsity. Say it is because of shame, remorse or embarrassment. It is the same. The present administration, just like the previous one — if not much worse — is a big admirer and consummate lover of gambling.

It is continuous in its futile attempt to devotedly hide its gambling propensity and delight under the pitiful guise of “gaming” through its minions; it now even speaks of a national “gaming industry” or something the like — instead a downright gambling economy as truth postulates.

Money, money and more money — no matter where it comes, how it is made and for whatever purpose it will be used. Gambling, gambling and more gambling — no matter what cheats, crooks and gangsters it attracts, wines and dines. Pagcor then, Pagcor now and Pagcor for the years yet to come — no matter the human dignity it undermines, the profession it destroys, the families it breaks..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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