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As economy falls, lottery sales rise
Morning Call ^ | 1/12/2009 | Juanita Cousins

Posted on 01/12/2009 5:23:06 AM PST by Red in Blue PA

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To: Overseez

The damage may be irrepairable and catastrophic. He is an international marxist with a mission to destroy capitalism. He has the tools to do it in place. He will turn us over to the UN and he believes in subordination of the United States to the International Socialist order.


21 posted on 01/12/2009 6:08:50 AM PST by screaminsunshine (.)
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To: dinodino

They are not interested in “doing well for themselves.”

They prefer the “rush” of the lottery, and love to wallow in their self-inflicted misery. It’s easier, and there are a whole host of people he can blame.


22 posted on 01/12/2009 6:09:13 AM PST by Boiling Pots (The USA has become one huge pyramid scheme. Thanks George, John, Nancy and Harry.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Media and society tells you you should be rich, but you are average — so... without too much effort you too can own Brad Pitt & Jenifer Aston homes and the lifestyle of the rich and famous. It’s lottery.


23 posted on 01/12/2009 6:11:24 AM PST by Blind Eye Jones
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To: dinodino
If he steadily invested that $100/week, he’d do well for himself.

I know the market sucks right now. However, you can buy real low right now and eventually it will come back up.....Unless it was me investing. LOL!!!

24 posted on 01/12/2009 6:12:12 AM PST by GUNGAGALUNGA
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To: Leisler

As a TN resident, I found this a little interesting. I don’t play the lottery here as it doesn’t benefit me. I am a non-traditional college student...perhaps one of the few neocons to be interested in teaching. ( I beg all neocons to go into the education field as it’s full of liberals. If you want to change anything, you have to be willing to do it yourself, but that’s another matter)

See how it works is...I can buy all the lotto tickets I want...but I can’t get a TN lottery scholarship to help pay for my education. It’s a one-way skreet. If they changed the laws, I might consider buying a ticket or two. As it stands, TN along with most states, I suspect...discriminate against the people who fund the lottery.

As it stands in most lotteries, the uneducated...the ones who would benefit the most from higher education...aren’t allowed to be the recipients of the very program they’re paying to fund.


25 posted on 01/12/2009 6:17:12 AM PST by NeoConfederate
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To: Mojave

Easy enough to do:

Go to Google, and site search:

site:www.craigslist.com “Keyword”
-or-
site:craigslist.com “keyword”

I haven’t x-rayed the site in a while, but remember that one of them worked...


26 posted on 01/12/2009 6:20:14 AM PST by Overseez (Chile recovered from the folly of the Marxist Allende, we will recover from the Marxist Obambi.)
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To: Red in Blue PA
If I remember correctly, in Orwell's ‘1984’ the sole source of entertainment for the proles (the lower class) was the lottery.

I guess increased lottery sales was the ‘hope’ part of Mr. Hope N. Change

27 posted on 01/12/2009 6:24:57 AM PST by kidd (Obama: The triumph of hope over evidence)
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To: Red in Blue PA

re: many people are feeling lucky

I think a more accurate phrase would be that “many people are HOPING lucky.”


28 posted on 01/12/2009 6:50:59 AM PST by jwparkerjr (God Bless America!)
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Will 0bama’s socialism provide free lotto tickets?

And will 0bama give them to the rich? After all, it’s the poor who have lotto tickets. And we know for a fact 0bama wants to spread things around from those who have to those who do not have.


29 posted on 01/12/2009 7:01:48 AM PST by NeoConfederate
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To: Red in Blue PA

Well, that’s just what I’d want to do - take my even scarcer income and spend it on something with a million to one chance of winning.

Why not stand on the roof of a building and just toss your money over the edge?


30 posted on 01/12/2009 7:06:03 AM PST by reagan_fanatic ("You got that, camera guy?")
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

WOrks both ways.

Alaska just had its first mega-lottery, by a private outfit as a fund raiser for - Standing Together Against Rape - STAR. $500K to the winner

the winner?

A (three time) convicted sex offender - a child rapist.

Life is so odd at time, ya just gotta laff or you will go nutz.


31 posted on 01/12/2009 8:17:23 AM PST by ASOC (This space could be employed, if I could only get a bailout...)
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