Friday, July 3, 2009
Day 5 e- learning
By creating the casino, a money-maker and a job creator to me, I think it would be helpful in Singapore after a careful decision by the government.After interviewing my parents for his views, I got mixed reactions from them. My Father said that by building the casino, it would create many job opportunities for the citizens of Singapore and boost our Gross Domestic Product( a rate on how the country is doing on their economy) thus, boost our economy as there is much more cash. Also, the workers in the casino will be able to receive a stable income from the casino, thus, there is a sense of stability for their families. By building the casino, it would also promote tourism and thus, more tourism and more cash flowing in to the government. Tourists from Indonesia had to go to Genting to gamble, but now they can come to Singapore to gamble. Not only that, but he also said that more tourist will look forward coming to Singapore for a tour and go to the casino for a spin of luck. This will create more money from the casino, and thus, the government will get all the money, reducing our loads on the taxes and the Electronic Road Pricing.
My mother, on the other hand, said that by by building the casino, it will also cause some harm to Singaporeans. A quote from the National Council and Problem Gambling said,"20 years ago, only just a handful of women were gambling, but now, almost half are female." This shows they there are more gambling addicts in the entire world. Not only that, psychologist Paul Goods from Atlanta even said," Women gamble to escape their routine everyday lives." Women and men are getting more addicted to gambling and this is a problem which will be happening in Singapore. More men will get addicted to the casino and they will have a broken family, ruining their family because of a man’s foolishness to gamble for once and get addicted forever.
To summerise, I feel that building the casino is like a double-edged sword. As there are advantages, there are disadvantages. As a Singaporean, I feel that this casino would boost Singapore's economy. But one must measure the pros and cons of every situation. It all boils down to self-discipline. Self-discipline helps people not get addicted. Therefore, as long as addiction to gambling is scarce, I will generally support gambling.
8:01 PM By Eugene
