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04-13-2007, 10:58 AM
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Re: Barney Frank about to be on CNBC
its on now. two people debating the issue. no barney. both participants were fairly unimpressive.
dont know why the pro gaming guy does not bring up WTO, the horse racing carve outs, hurting publicly traded European companies. his only argument seemed to be the whole "the bill was passed in the middle of the night argument." considering its on CNBC i think he should have made some of the economic points. 
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04-13-2007, 11:00 AM
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Re: Barney Frank about to be on CNBC
At least the pro-online gambling guy was well spoken and intelligent. I've seen segments like this before and they've had on some real dopes protesting for our side.
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04-13-2007, 12:31 PM
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At least the pro-online gambling guy was well spoken and intelligent. I've seen segments like this before and they've had on some real dopes protesting for our side. [/ QUOTE ] Please don't remind me of that guy.(if its him) At one point he was sitting in a chair wearing a bathrope, informing us that there was nothing underneath!
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#6
04-13-2007, 12:33 PM
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Re: Barney Frank about to be on CNBC
i think Jay has pointed it out a number of times. The best argument for online gaming at least from a legislative, economic argument is the WTO decision. They should get this out more rather than rehash how the bill was passed.
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04-13-2007, 01:03 PM
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i think Jay has pointed it out a number of times. The best argument for online gaming at least from a legislative, economic argument is the WTO decision. They should get this out more rather than rehash how the bill was passed. [/ QUOTE ] And add to that the U.S.'s hypocritical position about wanting to go to the WTO about trade sanctions against China.
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04-13-2007, 01:32 PM
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i think Jay has pointed it out a number of times. The best argument for online gaming at least from a legislative, economic argument is the WTO decision. They should get this out more rather than rehash how the bill was passed. [/ QUOTE ] I mostly agree with this. I think the other huge point is the carve outs for horse racing, etc. and the huge house edge that has in comparison to poker, and even casino and sports betting. Absolutely no getting around that other than admitting that those industries have great lobbies. You wanna see people allowing their lives to be destroyed by gambling??? Go hang out at the dog track for a day, or observe who buys lottery tickets!!! Allowing that stuff and not poker is an argument the other side simply cannot win.
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04-13-2007, 01:35 PM
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i think Jay has pointed it out a number of times. The best argument for online gaming at least from a legislative, economic argument is the WTO decision. They should get this out more rather than rehash how the bill was passed. [/ QUOTE ] The WTO is pretty unpopular in America.
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04-13-2007, 02:31 PM
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Re: Barney Frank about to be on CNBC
yeah the WTO is unpopular but the Bush administration still needs it to get rulings for US businesses. CNBC is catering a bit more to legislative and economic arguments rather than popular opinion so i think its good to argument to that type of audience.
so if you speaking to someone who is basically neutral on gambling it seems a reasonable argument to say the US should comply with the WTO simply so the organization has credibility. especially since the US uses its ruling as much as any nation.
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