people will find something else to blow their money on. That's why they are poor people Here are a few more reasons Sam.... sickness, death, injuries, accidents, corrupt employers, corrupt insurance companys, bad investments, layoffs, injustice, wars, victim of crime, divorce, corrupt judges, corrupt lawyers, victim of circumstance... do I need to go on?
My point was about people who willingly keep themselves poor by making poor financial decisions (such as playing the lottery), not about people who got that way through misfortune. I don't know why you would bring that into this argument unless your intention was to somehow shame me for speaking ill of poor people. Of course many people suffer misfortune and become poor through little or no fault of their own but it makes little sense to compound the misfortune by playing the lottery.