When you gamble you bet on a game of chance. The outcome of that game is totally random, without any method behind whether or not you win or loose. A sweepstakes is based on a predefined list of winners and loosers. The list is made before the sweepstakes starts, and continues until the list is out of entries. The list is generated based on a clear win/loss percent; something like keep 40%, give 60% back. In that way, a sweepstakes (like mcdonald's monopoly game, or twist caps on soda bottles) is drastically different from a game of chance. Sure there's a chance as to whether or not you get the winning entry, but that's no more taking a gamble than walking out your own front door in the morning. Secondly, your not paying to play the game. Your actually usually purchasing either phone-card time; or internet service time. The sweepstakes entries are free, and can be attained without the purchase of either the phone-card time or internet time by mailing a form to the software provider. And finally I've been in the business for a little over a year now. I've been an attendant, a technician, and a manager. Some of these establishments are trashy, this is true. However, there are establishments though that are very, very clean; have great people working there; and provide a form of entertainment to the public without being a drag on the community around them. They create jobs, they pay taxes, and if people want to have this kind of fun their going to do it one way or the other. I think that in these times, politicians should be clamoring to bring in more jobs, not figuring out ways to send them somewhere else.