Stop Predatory Gambling

Manifest Destiny and Predatory Gambling

by spgadmin

Manifest Destiny is a term that was used in the 19th century to designate the belief that the United States was destined, even divinely ordained, to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean. The Mississippi and Missouri rivers symbolized the starting line for this bold vision for the future.

Today, casino developers in the St. Louis metro area are pushing hard for a casino at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Read the story here.

While the vision some people have for America today is a something for nothing scheme, the truth is the era of phony prosperity is over.

The movement to stop state-sponsored predatory gambling is not simply a fight about gambling. It’s a fight about who we are as a people – a people with a strong sense of family and an ardent commitment to the core democratic principles of freedom, equality and opportunity for every citizen.

Which is why the road to get America back on track leads right through the issue of state sponsored predatory gambling.