Casinos

In my opinion, although building new casinoes in Singapore can help create more jobs for retrenched workers and help boost Singapore's economy, I think that ultimately the casino would cause more hardships than its benefits to Singapore.

Some people in Singapore have the mindset that they have good luck and would be able to strike it rich by going to casinoes and gamble. However, most of these people end up losing all their money in the casino. There are some people, after losing all their money, still think that they have luck and would borrow money from loan sharks and go gamble. This is where most of the problems come from. These people would continue losing more and more money and be heavily in debt. Being unable to pay the loan sharks, they would start to spend their lives hiding from loan sharks before they get enough money to repay them. This is a quote from the YouTube video I watched " Often, the people who really suffer from problem gambling aren't the gamblers. " . This Youtube video can be found at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chbjc-XDKLw . I agree with this statement. When these addicted gamblers run out of money to gamble, they often turn to their family members for money. Sometimes, when a family member refuses to lend the gambler money, the gambler might even resort to stealing from his own family members.

There is also a Chinese saying " Out of ten bets, you would lose nine of them." . Therefore, I strongly disagree that people should gamble in casinoes as the bets that are placed are mostly huge bets and money can either be won, or all lost. Even if casinoes are built in Singapore, I think that casinoes are only suitable for people who have a rather huge amount of capital money.