Instant Millions Can't Halt Winners' Grim Slide

NY Times ^ | 12/5/05 | JAMES DAO

[rolling_stone]

I doubt it. A slut like that'll go through a half mill in about 2-3 years

I'm sure with my help it would last a lot less than that!

[AD from SpringBay]

But the lottery helps the schools.

[Liz]

Heheh......the NYT's decline at the hands of Pinch should make a good syndicated story.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Oh, that's TOO perfect.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[investigateworld]

I know old Rodney has done a couple of 90 day stretches for "failure to Provide"*;.
But he is the poster boy of failure to engage brain before dispensing money. *California penal code section for didn't pay child support.

[Experiment 6-2-6]

If I had won the lottery and never had to work, my maturity would probably have been stuck at age 22.

See, that problem would not occur with ME.

I'd hire a JEEVES to keep all my affairs in order while I enjoy the free time..

My doctor calls it arrested development...

[Space Wrangler]

He would have, at the very least, stayed sober enough to work a majority of the time in order to afford to live. Winning the lottery for him, took away the neccessity to maintain a life, job, etc. He had free reign to drink himself to death as his lottery winnings kept him in isolation from the real world. The real world is all that keeps many marginal folks in this life.

[Jaysin]

I agree with you--I often play the cash-5 drawing where the jackpot is anywhere from $50G to 300G. a nice healthy check to "get ahead"--nothing more.

I truthfully wouldn;t mind hitting a jackpot of up to $10 million dollars. I think today, you would be completely out of any media spotlight.

[Hatteras]

"I'd love to prove myself the exception. "

So would I. Sooooo would I.... ;-)

[Ruth A.]

I agree with you, too. The "safety nets" are going to kill the best of American culture. I tell my kids: I'm tough and smart, because I played on monkey bars that had concrete underneath--not wood chips or foam. You had to know if you could hang upside down from your knees, because that was your own head that was at risk.