Andy Rooney: Lotteries and lottery players are stupid

America was founded by Puritans and other fanatics and that legacy still remains today.  People cannot stand anyone, especially someone who is not rich, to come into instant riches.  It's just not right. 

What I have a problem with is the comparison of stupidity to poverty.  There are a lot of stupid rich people and a lot of smart poor people.  Mozart died poor in an unmarked grave, he was one of the great geniuses of Western Culture. 

Remarks by Mr Rooney only shows his narrow mind with narrow hardened arteries cutting off the circulation to his brain.

count me in also as someone who liked clinton.those were some good years.the man wasn't perfect but he sure beats the guy sitting in the white house now.........

Anything to get ratings.

I'm sure he has an invisible halo over his head, and we're too stupid to see it.....LOL

When I was in high school I worked as a messenger in NYC. I once had a drop off for Mr Rooney. I found him to be a personable and caring guy - didn't talk down to me, seemed genuinely interested in what I had to say. As I remember he asked me why I wasn't in school (I was on winter break).

Not saying I agree or disagree with his rant - just that he didn't seem like a guy with a lot of pretense - he was the same guy you see on TV...unlike other celebs I have met.

just my $00.02

Notwithstanding Andy Ruined's usually nonsensical editorial...lottery doe simpact the poor and middle class more than the rich. It is a cynical form of taxation that is indeed regressive and somewhat immoral from a policy-making POV.

Governments should not be making money off sick people's vices.  The truth is, apart from the sane, ordinary folks like us here at LP , many players are just down-on -their luck dreamers and idiots thinking that they are going to score of their birthday or social security number.

I met a guy in a store and he told me he's been playing the same pick 4 straight every day for 5 years--his girlfriend's license plate. Poor fool...