Lottery

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Chris Spaghetti

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Re: Lottery
« Reply #60 on: March 31, 2011, 06:05:39 AM »
I would have thought the lottery violated your 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' politics, Wardogg?

I'm not trying to score points, it just ssems to violate what I would consider the core conservative philosophy?

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Beorn

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Re: Lottery
« Reply #61 on: March 31, 2011, 07:44:28 AM »
Someone in NY just won 391 million.  I bet their life sucks right now.

I kept reading this and I have to respond. Every day I watch unwashed men with barely any money drop 20-30 bucks on lottery tickets. They never win much and if they do they just drop the money right back into lottery tickets. At best part of their money gets given to some random bastard who now is "set for the rest of his life" and will probably be poor within the next decade. I don't see how a lottery does anything but increases poverty and funnels money into whoever runs said lotteries.

I was actually being a little facetious.  I watched a show about lottery winners and how it negatively changed their lives.  Im not talking about in small ways either.  Marriages lost.  Family isolated.  Like you say...broke in 10 years.  Kind of sad.  I have played though when the jackpot get really high. 

True, but you usually don't hear about the people where it didn't negatively change their lives. I think that if you're truly happy without winning, you can also be happy with all the money. I wouldn't know though, it's probably totally different when you actually win it then when you're thinking about it. Do the winners get made public in the US?

I myself don't play.
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Re: Lottery
« Reply #62 on: March 31, 2011, 10:36:02 AM »
Someone in NY just won 391 million.  I bet their life sucks right now.

I kept reading this and I have to respond. Every day I watch unwashed men with barely any money drop 20-30 bucks on lottery tickets. They never win much and if they do they just drop the money right back into lottery tickets. At best part of their money gets given to some random bastard who now is "set for the rest of his life" and will probably be poor within the next decade. I don't see how a lottery does anything but increases poverty and funnels money into whoever runs said lotteries.

I was actually being a little facetious.  I watched a show about lottery winners and how it negatively changed their lives.  Im not talking about in small ways either.  Marriages lost.  Family isolated.  Like you say...broke in 10 years.  Kind of sad.  I have played though when the jackpot get really high. 

True, but you usually don't hear about the people where it didn't negatively change their lives. I think that if you're truly happy without winning, you can also be happy with all the money. I wouldn't know though, it's probably totally different when you actually win it then when you're thinking about it. Do the winners get made public in the US?

I myself don't play.

I think it's optional but I know most people are made public. I don't understand how it could ruin your life, but I'm guessing its the same people who were letting money ruin their lives when they were poor.

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WardoggKC130FE

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Re: Lottery
« Reply #63 on: April 01, 2011, 03:44:41 AM »
I would have thought the lottery violated your 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' politics, Wardogg?

I'm not trying to score points, it just ssems to violate what I would consider the core conservative philosophy?

Technically gambling is bad.  No one is perfect.  

I go to casinos as well.  :o


Dont get me wrong im not playing every week. Just every once in a while.
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