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Earth First is jealous of lottery winners before they even win
« on: March 29, 2012, 03:34:41 PM »
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Could someone explain why this wouldn't work?
Instead of one or small group of individuals winning this obscene $540 million dollar Mega Millions lottery; why couldn't 540 set of numbers be drawn and add 540 new millionaires to the economy?

Ot nationalize a lottery with similar results?

Hey, Turd First, stop spending your welfare checks on patchouli oil and "medical" marijuana, buy a lottery ticket, and you'll be in the game just like everyone else.

Lottery Marxism:

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8. No--I'm saying that the probability of winning it is so infinitesimal

that it instills false hope in people, many of whom cannot realistically afford to throw money away by playing it.

Lotteries are also inherently undemocratic. They allow one person (or a small number of people) to become instant millionaires by sheer chance, without doing anything to earn that wealth by skill or merit. They take money from many (mostly poor or lower- to middle-income) to enrich a few for no other reason than luck of the draw. This goes against everything that a liberal democracy should stand for.

     What a pantload of shit. Poor people buy most of the tickets, and GUESS WHAT: THEY WIN MOST OF THE LOTTERIES.





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Re: Earth First is jealous of lottery winners before they even win
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2012, 03:39:01 PM »
And they wonder why we call them DUmbasses.
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Re: Earth First is jealous of lottery winners before they even win
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2012, 03:45:43 PM »
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earn that wealth by skill or merit


     Also decidedly un-Democratic, but hey, who's counting.
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Re: Earth First is jealous of lottery winners before they even win
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2012, 03:53:39 PM »
lastlib is correct about one thing.  The majority of the lottery players are the type that can least afford it. I know you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover so to speak but many of the people I see standing in line to get or redeem lotto tickets Look like they don't have a pot to pee in much less afford to spend the $20 or $50 or more on lotto tickets.
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Re: Earth First is jealous of lottery winners before they even win
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2012, 04:05:59 PM »
Lotteries are a tax on the stupid and the poor.
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Re: Earth First is jealous of lottery winners before they even win
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2012, 04:09:13 PM »
Quote from: Zeus on March 29, 2012, 03:53:39 PM
lastlib is correct about one thing.  The majority of the lottery players are the type that can least afford it. I know you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover so to speak but many of the people I see standing in line to get or redeem lotto tickets Look like they don't have a pot to pee in much less afford to spend the $20 or $50 or more on lotto tickets.

Lottery sales are always higher at the beginning of the month than at the end. 

Quote from: jukin on March 29, 2012, 04:05:59 PM
Lotteries are a tax on the stupid and the poor.

Hey!  I resemble that remark.  I don't buy tickets regularly, but will take a chance when it is over a hundred million or so.  For tomorrow's drawing we have a pool going at work.
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Re: Earth First is jealous of lottery winners before they even win
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2012, 04:09:43 PM »
Quote from: jukin on March 29, 2012, 04:05:59 PM
Lotteries are a tax on the stupid and the poor.


     Also on the minds of Earth First and lastlib.
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Re: Earth First is jealous of lottery winners before they even win
« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2012, 04:10:27 PM »
I think state lotteries are great - The short of it is they serve as voluntary tax revenue, which I'm behind 100%.
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Re: Earth First is jealous of lottery winners before they even win
« Reply #8 on: March 29, 2012, 04:21:43 PM »
Quote from: miskie on March 29, 2012, 04:10:27 PM
I think state lotteries are great - The short of it is they serve as voluntary tax revenue, which I'm behind 100%.

Plus they make for damned entertaining TV when they have specials about how the heathen mouth-breathers blow through the cash in a few months.
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Re: Earth First is jealous of lottery winners before they even win
« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2012, 04:28:55 PM »
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8. No--I'm saying that the probability of winning it is so infinitesimal

that it instills false hope in people, many of whom cannot realistically afford to throw money away by playing it.

Lotteries are also inherently undemocratic. They allow one person (or a small number of people) to become instant millionaires by sheer chance, without doing anything to earn that wealth by skill or merit. They take money from many (mostly poor or lower- to middle-income) to enrich a few for no other reason than luck of the draw. This goes against everything that a liberal democracy should stand for.

Funny Sandra Fluke and her buddies have done nothing to earn their birth control, yet you want money taken from many (mostly poor or lower- to middle-income) who pay their premiums every month, to enrich a few for no other reason than they think they are owed it.

A liberal whining about anyone getting something for nothing amuses me greatly.



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Re: Earth First is jealous of lottery winners before they even win
« Reply #10 on: March 29, 2012, 04:33:31 PM »
I'm considering actually buying one of the things.
What the heck.
Figure my odds are better than Obama winning the election this year.

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Re: Earth First is jealous of lottery winners before they even win
« Reply #11 on: March 29, 2012, 04:35:09 PM »
18 people at my company. Everyone chipped in 10. 180 picks. That money is ours. :evil:
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Re: Earth First is jealous of lottery winners before they even win
« Reply #12 on: March 29, 2012, 04:36:59 PM »
Quote from: Rebel on March 29, 2012, 04:35:09 PM
18 people at my company. Everyone chipped in 10. 180 picks. That money is ours. :evil:

I dunno.  I got four tickets, all for myself.

<<not fond of pools.

I figure the odds of franksolich winning the MegaMillions tomorrow (current jackpot: $540 million) are better than the odds of the primitives heeding the advice and counsel of franksolich anyway.

So why not blow the bucks?

www.electstevedawes.com
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Re: Earth First is jealous of lottery winners before they even win
« Reply #13 on: March 29, 2012, 04:39:18 PM »
DUmmie hasn't been able to profit from the good luck of someone he knows so now he wants to horn in on the good fortune of someone he doesn't know.

...and the reason it wouldn't work...because DUmmies are the truly greedy. "If I can't have it all, I won't play."
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Re: Earth First is jealous of lottery winners before they even win
« Reply #14 on: March 29, 2012, 04:40:33 PM »
MEGA MILLIONS
Current Est. Annuitized Jackpot for 03/30/2012:
$540 MILLION
Est. Cash Value:
$389.8 MILLION

Hell I might even go get a couple bucks worth of tickets. If i win I may become an expatriate to Jamaica or there about.
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Re: Earth First is jealous of lottery winners before they even win
« Reply #15 on: March 29, 2012, 04:41:30 PM »
Don't forget to share your good forune with erff furst. :lmao:
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Re: Earth First is jealous of lottery winners before they even win
« Reply #16 on: March 29, 2012, 04:42:42 PM »
Quote from: Skul on March 29, 2012, 04:41:30 PM
Don't forget to share your good forune with erff furst. :lmao:

Earth First, we can mine the other planets later.  :-)
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Re: Earth First is jealous of lottery winners before they even win
« Reply #17 on: March 29, 2012, 04:46:04 PM »
Quote from: Zeus on March 29, 2012, 04:42:42 PM
Earth First, we can mine the other planets later.  :-)

Earth First. It's the only planet with beer and boobies.
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Re: Earth First is jealous of lottery winners before they even win
« Reply #18 on: March 29, 2012, 04:57:00 PM »
Quote from: Zeus on March 29, 2012, 04:40:33 PM
MEGA MILLIONS
Current Est. Annuitized Jackpot for 03/30/2012:
$540 MILLION
Est. Cash Value:
$389.8 MILLION

Hell I might even go get a couple bucks worth of tickets. If i win I may become an expatriate to Jamaica or there about.

Not me. I'd buy a few million acres in the outback of downunder.
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Re: Earth First is jealous of lottery winners before they even win
« Reply #19 on: March 29, 2012, 05:06:23 PM »
Erf 1st is an OWSer.

Occupy the Lottery !!   :rotf:
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Re: Earth First is jealous of lottery winners before they even win
« Reply #20 on: March 29, 2012, 05:18:59 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on March 29, 2012, 04:57:00 PM
Not me. I'd buy a few million acres in the outback of downunder.

With their gun laws? I'd just buy Haiti and announce myself dictator. Should be able to get it for a cool 2 mil.
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Re: Earth First is jealous of lottery winners before they even win
« Reply #21 on: March 29, 2012, 05:21:03 PM »
Because if they draw say 540 sets of numbers? there could possibly be tens of thousands of people with the winning numbers, so people would be thousandaires instead of millionaires.
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Re: Earth First is jealous of lottery winners before they even win
« Reply #22 on: March 29, 2012, 05:23:57 PM »
Quote from: Rebel on March 29, 2012, 05:18:59 PM
With their gun laws? I'd just buy Haiti and announce myself dictator. Should be able to get it for a cool 2 mil.

Such a large primarily unsettled continent there are probably large areas where the primary law is laws of survival.
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Re: Earth First is jealous of lottery winners before they even win
« Reply #23 on: March 29, 2012, 05:25:14 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on March 29, 2012, 05:21:03 PM
Because if they draw say 540 sets of numbers? there could possibly be tens of thousands of people with the winning numbers, so people would be thousandaires instead of millionaires.

     Which is still more money than you need, where need is defined by whatever Earth First says you need. The rest goes to the government for safe keeping.
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Re: Earth First is jealous of lottery winners before they even win
« Reply #24 on: March 29, 2012, 05:26:05 PM »
Quote from: BannedFromDU on March 29, 2012, 05:25:14 PM
Which is still more money than you need, where need is defined by whatever Earth First says you need. The rest goes to the government for safe keeping.

They really are freaking stupid!
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