Posted on 01/12/2009 5:23:06 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
NASHVILLE, Tenn. | - Even in these tough economic times, many people are feeling lucky.
More than half of all states with lotteries have reported rising sales over the past six months, and some researchers say financial insecurity might be driving people to risk more of their money than usual on $1 and $5 instant scratch-offs and other daily games in hopes of a big payoff.
''Someday somebody is going to win and I hope it is me,'' said Albert Atwood of Nashville, who spends $100 weekly playing the Pick 5 and Lotto Plus. ''I imagine that I would be a heap better off if I saved this money, but everybody has dreams.''
Driven by regulars like Atwood and a growing number of occasional players, 25 of 42 states with lotteries have experienced higher sales of scratch-off and daily lottery games since July, according to Scientific Games, a maker of scratch-offs.
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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.
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.
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.
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!!!
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.
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...
I guess increased lottery sales was the ‘hope’ part of Mr. Hope N. Change
re: many people are feeling lucky
I think a more accurate phrase would be that “many people are HOPING lucky.”
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.
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?
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.
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