Andy Rooney: Lotteries and lottery players are stupid

Well, I am lottery player not a big gambler at big casinos. In lottery pond, It still has true winners ? Why someone call someone like me stupid ?

I just hope there'is no a weird meeting made by some VIP talking about shut down lottery ? We need something fun in the life! never mind whoever call me "really stupid"

Andy Rooney should look at the history of the lottery. Paul Revere ran a lottery to pay for the revolution. The history of America is tied to the lottery. I guess America and Americans are stupid Andy.

Andy Rooney is not the first person to say playing the lottery is stupid. 

Several times a year a local stupid person tells me the same thing while I'm buying lottery tickets.  How do I know they're stupid too?  They are usually buying a carton of cigarettes or a six-pack of beer at the time. 

Maybe Andy should also do a piece about the stupid people who smoke cigarettes and drink beer.  I wonder if Andy smokes or drinks.

Andy sounded like a post I read some time ago          but a lot of people think of his words as gold          In Biloxi some people think that every one cashed Fima checks at the Casinos  only part true

A gambler is a gambler is a gambler,  rich or poor, stupid or not.  Some may be addicted, some just do it for entertainment.

It is commonly perceived that there are more poor people gambling or buying the lotteries than rich people, and perhaps this could be true;  but I believe the reason is because there are just much more poor people than rich people.  If there were more rich people than poor, then there would be a reversed perception.

I heard they cashed them at jewelry stores, porn shops, liquor stores and casinos.

Way to go Andy.

Some (stupid) people spend their money onwomen, booze, cigarettes, drugs, donations to political parties, donations to churches, mosques and synagogues with crooked pastors and rabbis and imams ,and some just send their money to foreign countries to buy more bombs , to steal more land and put the landowners in refugee camps to bomb them at will..

 Andy wouldn't be in any of these categories, right? 

Litebets started a thread on this subject last night. I already posted, but your comment is interesting.  When we read about the victims of hurricane Katrina taking the $2,000 and using it to buy porn, gamble and go to Vegas, maybe it was grossly over-exaggerated too.  I certainly was quick to pass judgment. The media plays on our prejudices as well as our emotions. There is a general attitude that people in lower income brackets are morally deficit which is why white collar crime is often overlooked.  I once worked for an auto loan company - believe me, there are people who make double-digit incomes with lousy credit and don't pay their bills. Being responsible isn't always about how much money you make.

I'm sure there are some people on food stamps who buy lottery tickets with welfare money, and as a taxpayer I disapprove.  However, poor people spending an occasional dollar or 2 a week for a shot at a better life isn't what costs the government trillions of dollars.

From Andy's article:"...What I don't approve of is any government agency buying radio commercials to encourage the poor to waste what we give them on lottery tickets..."

What we see is Andy's bigotry against the poor.There are no commercial that encourage the poor to buy lottery tickets.They encourage anyone over 18 to buy tickets.

"...You see people buying lottery tickets all the time and it's obvious that most lottery money comes from the poorest people.They don't look too smart either..."

You really want to talk about looks Andy?

It's Andy who thinks only the poor shouldn't be allowed to buy lottery tickets with his money.Does he have a problem with the rich buying lottery tickets?Does he have a problem with the wealthy getting tax breaks?What about corporate welfare?Any problem with how the rich spend their money Andy?

Perhaps Andy has been hanging out with his good buddy Mel Gibson,eh?

No,just like many others,Andy wants to tell the poor how they can or can't spend their own money.Maybe we'll tell CBS how to spend their money;and how to save it,by canning Andy Rooney. 

Orangeman, that's hysterical.  I was going to give you the credit for a brilliant observation, but I just googled it and there are a few links using See BS. Still, thanks for pointing that out to us. Do you have one for CNN? I often wonder if I'm watching the news or a drama starring Anderson Cooper.