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megl
Enthusiast
Silver Level
I don't live in the US and I am no expert on US domestic affairs and politics, but I just feel like giving my 2 cents - with the risk of my fellow US cardschatters playing back at me hard 
As always and everywhere, money rules the world. Not noble ideals of freedom or a better world. Perhaps even more so in the US than anywhere else. Some hollow 'Land of the free' chant on repeat does not change that.
I heard in the news that the US is challenged on the national budgets these days. So here's the true story as I see it:
It was a dark and stormy night.
The national treasury keeper looked into the national treasure chest. A flash of lightning from the thunder outside briefly lit up the vault and revealed the startling truth: The chest was empty.
The treasure keeper, and of course the powers ruling the nation, were in despair as their attempts to fill the empty chest had not been successful. The wealth and success of the nation was seriously threatened. Worse, the rulers felt their power slipping away like dry sand through their fingers. No money, no power, disaster.
They looked around for a last resort. They spotted a prosperous billion dollar industry and realized this industry was operating within their nation, interacting successfully with millions of the nation's citizens, and the national treasury was not getting any cut of the profit. Outrageous.
So they laid a plan.
Since they couldn't directly seize or control an operation based in a foreign nation, and since previous legislative attempts to stop their citizens from using their 'freedom' to engage with these companies and generate turnover for them had failed, they decided to get rid of the velvet gloves and use raw muscle in an attempt to squeeze some gold out of the industry.
They stated by raising as much hell as they could (you've seen how they did it), knowing this would cause significant damage to the industry's earnings, maybe even to it's existence.
This, they thought, would force the representatives of the industry to negotiate in order to bring peace and business back to normal.
And indeed, the plan worked.
In time, the representatives of the industry, being uder significant pressure, agreed with the ruling powers on a settlement that implied that billions of dollars were instantly transferred from the bulging treasuries of the industry, to the empty national chest. The terms of the settlement also ensured that the nation's national treasury would get more than it's fair cut of any future profits made by the Industry. In return, the industry was allowed to operate within the nation again (though on certain restrictive terms - after all, it was the Land of the Free ).
And thus, peace and happiness was restored, and the citizens were allowed just enough freedom to spend their time and hard earned doe on online poker, should they want to do so.
So stay calm everyone, it will all work out
As always and everywhere, money rules the world. Not noble ideals of freedom or a better world. Perhaps even more so in the US than anywhere else. Some hollow 'Land of the free' chant on repeat does not change that.
I heard in the news that the US is challenged on the national budgets these days. So here's the true story as I see it:
It was a dark and stormy night.
The national treasury keeper looked into the national treasure chest. A flash of lightning from the thunder outside briefly lit up the vault and revealed the startling truth: The chest was empty.
The treasure keeper, and of course the powers ruling the nation, were in despair as their attempts to fill the empty chest had not been successful. The wealth and success of the nation was seriously threatened. Worse, the rulers felt their power slipping away like dry sand through their fingers. No money, no power, disaster.
They looked around for a last resort. They spotted a prosperous billion dollar industry and realized this industry was operating within their nation, interacting successfully with millions of the nation's citizens, and the national treasury was not getting any cut of the profit. Outrageous.
So they laid a plan.
Since they couldn't directly seize or control an operation based in a foreign nation, and since previous legislative attempts to stop their citizens from using their 'freedom' to engage with these companies and generate turnover for them had failed, they decided to get rid of the velvet gloves and use raw muscle in an attempt to squeeze some gold out of the industry.
They stated by raising as much hell as they could (you've seen how they did it), knowing this would cause significant damage to the industry's earnings, maybe even to it's existence.
This, they thought, would force the representatives of the industry to negotiate in order to bring peace and business back to normal.
And indeed, the plan worked.
In time, the representatives of the industry, being uder significant pressure, agreed with the ruling powers on a settlement that implied that billions of dollars were instantly transferred from the bulging treasuries of the industry, to the empty national chest. The terms of the settlement also ensured that the nation's national treasury would get more than it's fair cut of any future profits made by the Industry. In return, the industry was allowed to operate within the nation again (though on certain restrictive terms - after all, it was the Land of the Free
).And thus, peace and happiness was restored, and the citizens were allowed just enough freedom to spend their time and hard earned doe on online poker, should they want to do so.
So stay calm everyone, it will all work out
