Timothy Roemer: “I think one of our former Presidents once said, ``Education is expensive, but ignorance is even more expensive.'' This…”

“I think one of our former Presidents once said, ``Education is expensive, but ignorance is even more expensive.'' This bill is about educating the American people. It is not about mandating the States. It is about getting information out to the people about what the gaming industry and the gambling is doing to our small businesses and our families and our wages. That is what this is about. I recommend the ``Luck Business'', by Robert Goodman, to see some of the devastating consequences that gaming is having in our small communities. Second, this is about values. Our values in American society are not to say to our children, ``Go out and win the lottery. We are going to go out to 7-Eleven and buy enough tickets and go gaming and gambling, and that is the way to make the American dream.'' It is about hard work and sacrifice and commitment. So let us study and see what this proliferation of gambling is having on American families and American small businesses. That is all this bill does.”