Money

[Queersetti]

My observation is that the first generation builds the fortune, the second adds to it, and the third brings shame to the family name, or has pissed away what residue there is. The list is long and infamous, the Kennedy's, Rockefeller's, Carnegie's, Guggenheim's, Singer's, Winchester's, DuPont's, well, you get the idea.

You left off the Bushes.

 

[Saint Peter]

You left off the Bushes.

That's different.

 

[Adre]

That's a pretty broad brush. Many DuPont heirs for instance were fine citizens and supported many Philadelphia institutions, charities and culture. One was a nutter and they made a movie about him. Same for the Rockefellers and others.

 

[Ramone45]

I don't understand these mile-long lines to get a Powerball ticket. I walked up to a vending machine in my supermarket and I was out of there in two seconds. There's no way I would ever wait on a line like that. Don't these people have anything better to do?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I don't understand these mile-long lines to get a Powerball ticket. I walked up to a vending machine in my supermarket and I was out of there in two seconds. There's no way I would ever wait on a line like that. Don't these people have anything better to do?

If you are buying a Lotto ticket, the answer is no...

The person who looks at the odds and still hands over their money are never going to go far in life.

 

[Queersetti]

If you are buying a Lotto ticket, the answer is no...

The person who looks at the odds and still hands over their money are never going to go far in life.

Most of them, if they won, would use the money to buy a billion more Lotto tickets.

Still, I suppose you can say that the odds of buying a winning ticket are greater than the odds of winning without one.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

You buy one ticket.


One set of numbers wins, if there is a winner.


Zero numbers wins . . . zero dollars.


One losing ticket contributes to the commonwealth's slush fund. It's probably less than I pick up out of the gutter every three days at work.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Most of them, if they won, would use the money to buy a billion more Lotto tickets.

Still, I suppose you can say that the odds of buying a winning ticket are greater than the odds of winning without one.

Studies have shown that most of them end up dead, dead broke, or both.

That's why I save and invest, then you respect the results.

People don't respect what they don't earn.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You buy one ticket.


One set of numbers wins, if there is a winner.


Zero numbers wins . . . zero dollars.


One losing ticket contributes to the commonwealth's slush fund. It's probably less than I pick up out of the gutter every three days at work.

Gambling was sold here as education funding. What most voters thought was that it was going to be additional funding forgetting that all government spending is fungible...

Voters, on average, tend to be below average in smarts.

 

[Queersetti]

Studies have shown that most of them end up dead, dead broke, or both.

That's why I save and invest, then you respect the results.

People don't respect what they don't earn.

Studies show that everybody ends up dead.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

There is that...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Gambling was sold here as education funding. What most voters thought was that it was going to be additional funding forgetting that all government spending is fungible...

Voters, on average, tend to be below average in smarts.

Our lottery was sold under the same bogus promise.


One of the Dems' Guvnurz moved the proceeds to the General (translation: Slush) Fund when there was a large shortfall. To avoid raising taxes, you see.


We got the coach's spawn for Guvnur next . . . good times. What a fucking imbecile.


One of the biggest lottery retailers was in a confluence of low-rent/subsidized apartment complexes. Who knew??? Gimme a forty and a winner . . . .

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

That is exactly who the state is preying upon.

Those poor unfortunates who will voluntarily tax themselves even after receiving their "free" government education.

 

[kbate]

That is exactly who the state is preying upon.

Those poor unfortunates who will voluntarily tax themselves even after receiving their "free" government education.

How so? In the world they have voted for, their best hope of getting out of the ghetto is the lottery. There is no upward advancement. You either start with it, or you live without it.

Fewer than 1% of the people move upward in economic class under the inflation is good monetary system.

If you have no money and no hope, buying the dream for $1 or $2 isn't 'voluntary taxation', it is entertainment - just as skiing is for those who have moved to the upper middle, or beach House is for those in lower rich. You buy the dream you can afford.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Sorry, there are too many success stories for me to fall for you characterization of the plight of the poor.

Most of those people are not held down by the system, but by their habits and beliefs.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

I do not know how all states work their lotto proceeds...

I suspect it is close to the same.

It's going to the education budget I tell you!!!

And it certainly does...... But the budget stays the same, as for every dollar put in, a dollar is diverted elsewhere.

 

[Ramone45]

Most of them, if they won, would use the money to buy a billion more Lotto tickets.

Still, I suppose you can say that the odds of buying a winning ticket are greater than the odds of winning without one.

Not really

 

[renard_ruse]

I tend to agree with Tiger Woods, what good is money if you can't use it get pussy?

 

[renard_ruse]

...He has many children and thousands of grandchildren.

Thousands of grandchildren?

 

[Queersetti]

Not really

Yes, really. 1>0