Stop Predatory Gambling

Forgetting what they did there

by spgadmin

This week the Pennsylvania Gambling Control Board is holding public hearings on a proposed casino in Gettysburg – a place where more than 50,000 men were killed, wounded or captured in one of the most important events in American history. More than 400 people have signed up to testify.

Casino interests continue to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to position themselves as today’s source of economic opportunity but the reality is they simply milk existing wealth rather than create new wealth.

Government incentives gradually shape a national character. Through its partnership with gambling interests, our government has given rise to an emerging national ethic of phony prosperity, living beyond our means, cutting corners and distrust.

“The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here,” said President Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address. Building a casino in Gettysburg, with government’s blessing, is the ultimate symbol of forgetting what they did there.