| Posted: August 12, 2008, 6:55 pm - IP Logged |
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I can certainly understand your frustration. So many people NEED this kind of $$$, their homes are in foreclosure or struggling to feed their families and this granny acts like she just won a quilt from the Senior Citizen Center. Oh how nice to win...it won't change me. i seriously hope she knows how incredibly fortuante she is to not even seriously need the $$$
GamerMom
At one of the seminars I went to, the speaker told the audience he as looking for someone who needed $2,000,000 and asked different people to prove they needed that much.
It went something like this:
Speaker:
OK, someone prove to me they need $2 million. If I walked up to you and gave you that much, what would you do?
Most common answer:
"I'd buy a house (this ws 1980s), pay my bills, but a new car!"
Speaker:
"You don't need $2 million, you donlt need $1 million, you need about $300,000.......I'm looking for the person with a valid need of $2,000,000."
One guy thought he'd be the one when he mentioned starting a business, etc...but the speaker hit him with a few things he hadn't thought of; did he have a passion for that business, was he looking at going into it only because it might be a money maker, and would he really want to come into $2 million and yet be tied to something that demanded most of his time.
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I think the stats are 50% of jackpot winners are broke within five years of hitting the jackpot. Maybe something mystical kicks in and the cosmos prevents some people from hitting until they're older- knowing that would have piddled it all away on things like cars and trying to impress people.
Just my $.02
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There are two kinds of jackpot winners...the ones who remained anonymous and the ones that wish they had.