Posted on 06/24/2005 5:34:55 PM PDT by Crackingham
Instead of big lies we will not have small lies.
This is fraud. Plain and simple.
Response: No suprise here. After all they are government officials, in America 2005 AD.
I wonder if they have been making any more money by making the lottery far harder to win. It was supposed to increase the prizes, but they still seem low..
I think less people play than they did before they changed it.
I'd start looking for Porsches in the parking lot of the Texas Lottery Commission.
PING!
I say fire them....now!
The guy in charge...has either admitted that he did not do his job and actually look at the numbers before signing off on them...OR....he is just a punk who put the blame on his subs.
Texas lottery is losing money. I guess Texans are catching on and not buying those stupid tickets.
could be an issue.
Seems that top people at government and many companies these days are signing off on #'s without checking them..
Apparently it's so common that this guy can freely admit it and not fear for his job.
This is why government should stay away from gambling and leave it to... the people.
The taxpayers? The winner? Surely not the oh-so honest government employees!
Is it wrong have the growing feeling that various inept or corrupt or treasonous government bureaucrats should simply be sent to forced labor camps? Maybe that's one "cultural import" we can pick up from our new Chinese friends....
The pols in Austin will be deeply saddened to hear that proceeds from the Stupidity Tax seem to be falling off. They'll have to think of some other ways to trick the suckers out of their money.
I think this guy should go to jail.
They played games with numbers on money that is supposed to help fund state govt issues.
Fake but accurate
If the people buy it, some is always selling.
If a private businessman did this, he'd go to prison. A government employee won't even get docked a days pay for it. Terrible!!!
Dumb question:
How can a jackpot NOT increase if no one wins it?
Zero ticket sales for a week?
Like all plans from the mushy headed liberals in Austin, they have to lie to get the masses to go along with it.
You claim you had $8million when you only had $6.5million. Next week when all you have now is $8million, you have no increase (unless you now claim $10million).
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