We are sitting on a time bomb waiting for the next crisis to ignite which is going to be global.

I do admit that you do make a lot of sense, but really you're that much more luckier than everyone else that you're able to confidently say just gamble and go for it?

So, why would I gamble on making more with that money especially when getting out of debt is more important to me?

Criminal Code of 1961; Gambling F.

@Greg Scott,Going after appreciation is not investing - it's speculating (gambling).

If you are writing specific copy, such as a letter to landlord doing an eviction, code enforcement lottery winner or maybe a foreclosure "victim," the copy may have irritated this person because it re-ignited the pain of what he/she is going through.

It's so much money on a huge gamble. 

In my mind $8k is more money than I'm willing to gamble with and the course felt like too much of a gamble (let's put it this way..

It is a gamble!

If you however are taking a big chunk of your money down in hopes you hit it big that is gambling and I saw many lose their shirts before.A lot of these projects being talked about no all come to completion.