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Essay About Gambling In The Philippines

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Gambling the Philippines’ Future

It is no secret that there has been a push from the government to develop the so called ‘Entertainment City’. This city is supposedly going to be the Las Vegas or Atlantic City in our very own country. Yes, this means that there is a push to make this city, the gambling capital of the Philippines.

Now it seems strange that there is a push for such a city in the Philippines where the Catholic Church has been very vocal about the negative effects that the growth of the gambling industry will bring. As said by Bishop Deogracias Iniguez, head of the Commission on Public Affairs of the influential Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippine "Ang mga casino, as we see it now, ay nagiging pagkakataon talaga ng …show more content…

Additionally, most of these casinos are 40 percent owned by foreign investors thus 40 percent of the money being generated by the gambling industry does not even stay in our country. The money taken from our countrymen who are suffering from addiction is now gone. Thus the money being lost is truly lost, by the gambler and to the general economy as well.

With all of this, the win-win situation we saw earlier on the push for Entertainment City on paper does not live up. In reality, it is a lose-lose situation where the ones who lose are the people and the economy. The only winners that come out of this are the investors. In a country where the gap between the rich and poor is already one of the biggest, the rise of casinos just provides another avenue for the rich to take from the rest of the country.

Let us not fall into this lose-lose situation. Stop the push for more casinos, and a gambling capital of the Philippines. There are too many as it is. We should focus on bringing in tourists and improving the economy the more sustainable way. We are blessed to live in a country full of resources that I am sure we can find better means to become the country we one day want to

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