Poker and Politics

This week the United States Government reached into my home and my wallet by seizing $35 million dollars of Internet poker money. Where is the liberty in that? I've been a Republican my whole life and this year I voted for Barack and nobody can believe it. Why? Because ex-Senator William Harrison Frist and his boys reached into my house and proposed to tell me what to do with my own money. When liberals tell us what to spend our money on, i.e. higher taxes and health care we are quick to point our fingers at that evil of all evils "socialism" (by the way anyone who is accepting social security or plans on accepting social security can't hate socialism that much.) When conservatives tell us what we can't spend our money on, i.e. Internet poker or marijuana, I call that hypocrisy. Either way the government is in our pocket books. Why is that okay? At least social programs are helping the needy. Sounds Christ like to me. After all God told us "Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, 'Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed,' but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?" James 2:15-16. But the idea that Republicans in the Senate, a Federal Prosecutor and Judge in New York feel the need to save me from myself is pretty arrogant. I understand some people feel that gambling is immoral and that we are a "Christian Nation" and if you feel that way, that's okay, but God has a couple things to say, "Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters." Romans 14:1 and "You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other you are condemning yourself..."