CBS publishes second hatchet job on lottery

I GUESS YOU DON'T LOOK VERY HARD.

I have seen lots of banners in mom & pop stores.  I am even friends with a mom & pop store owner (owns 2 stores) who had a Mega Millions jackpot winner in her store, and they have an enormous banner in the window.

Rise up out of your own line of vision to comprehend that your experiences aren't necessarily indicative of reality! 

There is a reason that people are trying to explain to you these things. 

They want you to understand that there is a much larger, happier world out there in which the lottery is not engaging in a conspiracy against certain groups of people!

Thank "U"......Todd!

"YOU".....................yes >>>>>>>>>>>>"YOU"

should be honest with all the member's >>>>>>>on Lottery POST!

"PLEASE" tell us what school of journalism..............you gradulated?

............HAVARD, YALE, maby Dartmouth ????????????????????????

YOU appear to "know"

how to report the ^^ "news" ....better/d-network

 "WE" L@@K forward to Ceen'n U on the TLC soon!!

Check out this mom and pop store:

http://blogs.lotterypost.com/jarasan/2007/06/dc-lotterys-best-tenley-market.htm

All we need is a PowerBall jackpot, they've hit everything else.

I  look  very  well  thank  you  but  get the  picture  reality  starts  with  questioning  authority.

Rise up out of your own line of vision to comprehend that your experiences aren't necessarily indicative of reality!

Wow  Todd , if  I  didn't  know  better  I  swear  you  were  insulting  me  and saying  I  had  lost my  mind , seeing  that  my  personal  experiences  were not  indicative  of  reality ???

In  the  larger  cities  real  mom  and  pop  stores  are  run  by  foriegn  nationals  with  competition

some  times  less  than  a  block  away  and  within  3 -5  block  radius  there is  a huge  supermarkets :  thats  competition  and  yyet  its  suported  the  neighborhoods,  Ii  dont  frankly  care  if  people  chose  to  ignor  the  facts    and  chose  to  believe  the  lie&

The  facts  speak  for  themselves  ,  do  you  see  millionairs  running  around  in  low  income  neighborhoods  ,...No .........me  either  ....did  they  buy  a  winning  ticket  at  Moms  OR  CHANG  LEE S  MARKET  and  become  wealthy  or  set  for  life  ....No ......

case  closed

"I  have  never  walked  into  a  small  mom  and  pop  store  and  saw  a  winning  banner  in  my  life in  any  black/hispanic  community  and  I  have  been  to  many  accross  america; "

Every time somebody makes this type of statement, I feel compelled to look for what they didn't see but I guess I'm lucky this time because I can't find "black/hispanic  community" on my map. Maybe you could elaborate on why you go into so many black/hispanic mom and pop stores across America. Where can I find one in NE Ohio?

"when  it  comes  to instant  tickets  and  quick  pick  games  there  is  no  comparrison  middle  class  whites  get  more " 

I suppose asking for any kind of data to back that up is out of the question?

well  if  you  stop  chasing  people  with  a  burning  cross  and  chains  in  the  other  hand   and.....  loose  the  white  robe  ...then   some  nice  black  lottery  player  will  show  you  his    neighborhood:

You may have the case closed, but I haven't begun to understand what case is closed!

We obviously disagree about a lot of stuff, so let's agree to disagree.

I would love to understand your bottom line about what you believe the lottery is doing.

What is the lottery's role in all of this?  If you could please explain it in as simple terms as possible, that would help me, because sometimes I'm a little slow.

Which part of the whole thing do they manipulate?  Do they change the lottery results to make sure a particular store wins?  Or is it something else?

There are other people who have similar thoughts to yours, so although you don't speak for all of them, maybe you could shed some light.

"some  times  less  than  a  block  away  and  within  3 -5  block  radius  there is  a huge  supermarkets :  thats  competition  and  yyet  its  suported  the  neighborhoods,  Ii  dont  frankly  care  if  people  chose  to  ignor  the  facts    and  chose  to  believe  the  lie&"

Within about the same radius there is a supermarket, 2 gas stations with food marts, a convenient store and 2 drive-thru's in my neighborhood; and they all sell lottery tickets. Maybe people buy tickets when they buy their groceries, gas, bread and milk, or beer, but there are no facts supporting any one these stores will sell more large prize winning tickets.

"The  facts  speak  for  themselves"

Discussing the facts would be a change of pace from your opinions of mom and pop stores across America.

Well speaking as an African-American here in NC(charlotte) I don't see the lottery targeting any specific race, they even run messages encouraging people to play responsibly. And we do have minority's here that have hit it big. there was a jackpot winner from charlotte who bought his ticket in SC before Nc offered the lottery and he was an african-american(won $80 million) and just last year a correctional guard from Raleigh(African-American female) won $22 Million in the power-ball so let's get off the race kick it all comes down to just how lucky you are to win the "GREEN"

first  question:

I would love to understand your bottom line about what you believe the lottery is doing.

What is the lottery's role in all of this?  If you could please explain it in as simple terms as possible, that would help me, because sometimes I'm a little slow"

First  Goal  of  the  lottery  is  to  raise  revenue  ,just  who  gets  the  Bulk  of  that  revenue  is  questionable and  classifyed  information: 

How  they  retain  a  steady  winning  streak  ( here  in  NY)  is  beyound  me  but  suggest  manipulation  of  the  draw  machines  by  weighted  balls  and  player  habits  since  tracking  players  bets  are  a  by-product  of  computer  sysyems  ; this  is  where  I  have  my  issue  with  GETEC  and  outfits  simmular  to  them; GETC  first  coustmers  were  cassino's  and  video  slot  machines  -these  are  computer  controled  and  fiber  optic  upgraded  ;  which  means  if  they  downloded 30 Gb  it  would  take  less  than    3  hours  but  if  it  were  a  56K  line ( plain  old  telephone  line  )  it  would  take  a  month  to  download   30Gb. .......with  high  tech  software  and   equipment  throw  in  some  Professional  Advertisement  and  a  paid  consultant    psychiatrist ,  would  insure  a  high  yeild  proffit  on  running  a  lottery: Dont   look  at  just  the  lottery  look  at  those  behind  the  scen  like  KGMG  and  GETEC  here  all  involved ,  they  all  have  an  interest  we  think  just  as  you  suggest ....  its  fair...they  wouldn't  cheat  ...ok  ??/   and  prying  on  little  small  mom  and  pops  stores  make  up  50%    of  retailers  in  the  system ,  they  are  the  cash  cow ;

Consider a paradox outlined by London School of Economics economist Richard Lay¿ard in Happiness (Penguin, 2005), in which he shows that we are no happier even though average incomes have more than doubled since 1950 and "we have more food, more clothes, more cars, bigger houses, more central heating, more foreign holidays, a shorter working week, nicer work and, above all, better health." Once average annual income is above $20,000 a head, higher pay brings no greater happiness. Why? One, our genes account for roughly half of our predisposition to be happy or unhappy, and two, our wants are relative to what other people have, not to some absolute measure.

Happiness is better equated with satisfaction than pleasure, says Emory University psychiatrist Gregory Berns in Satisfaction (Henry Holt, 2005), because the pursuit of pleasure lands us on a never-ending hedonic treadmill that paradoxically leads to misery. "Satisfaction is an emotion that captures the uniquely human need to impart meaning to one's activities," Berns concludes. "While you might find pleasure by happenstance--winning the lottery, possessing the genes for a sunny temperament, or having the luck not to live in poverty--satisfaction can arise only by the conscious decision to do something. And this makes all the difference in the world, because it is only your own actions for which you may take responsibility and credit."