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D.C. lottery ticket wins $144M Powerball jackpot
MI United States Member #55299 August 31, 2007 813 Posts Offline |
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Have you ever seen or heard news reports about lottery winners becoming broke? Can you imagine? They have no money left!
Many lottery winners, especially those who take a lump sum are now poor. How could that possibly be? Many people think that if they could just win the lottery, their whole life would change for the best. They think that once they win all that cash, then all their problems will disappear. Therefore, week after week they buy lottery tickets, hoping to win. It doesn't matter if they had picked the lump sum or the annuity, if they're stupid with the money they're going to end up back where they started or probably worse. There's been many lottery winners who took the annuity and ended up selling it a company for significantly less than it's worth just to cover their bills because they over spent or for some reason thought they paid all the taxes on it to going along with that over spending. The money isn't the issue, the issue is the person who won choosing ignorance (possibly laziness) over educating themselves to handle their windfall properly or working with the right people while still remaining involved and again, educating themselves so they can at least follow what the people you've employed are saying/doing so you can choose to or not to go along with it instead of being hands off and letting them take YOUR money and putting it into bad investments. Because at the end of the day, it's your choice and the only one to blame is the person the check was made out to.
Oh and yeah, then there's the ones who were media whores and brought unneeded attention upon themselves.
Anyway, congrats the winner(s), I hope they enjoy life, make the over all right decisions with it and have to never worry again about money. With odds like 1 in 175,711,536 how can I lose?!
You can't predict random.
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ky United States Member #38179 April 19, 2006 81 Posts Offline |
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I'll make it more depressing- Maybe congress and the senate had a lottery pool-maybe they won the lottery heh heh
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I'll make it more depressing- Maybe congress and the senate had a lottery pool-maybe they won the lottery heh heh If it meant that they would retire,I hope it was a group of democrat senators.
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Chief Bottle Washer New Jersey United States Member #1 May 31, 2000 17054 Posts Offline |
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I'll make it more depressing- Maybe congress and the senate had a lottery pool-maybe they won the lottery heh heh It could be poetic justice -- they'll be forcing themselves to "spread their wealth around". 
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Atlanta United States Member #16270 May 24, 2005 182 Posts Offline |
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brad is always negative...Geez!!! Congrats to the winner(s).
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Viva La Chance! Rockville, MD. United States Member #44542 July 30, 2006 1628 Posts Offline |
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Congrats to the winner(s), I bet it is an individual. The pathetic webmasters of the junk DC lottery "new" website have yet to comment where the ticket was sold. It wasn't me..............darney! But you know what? There is always Saturday, $20 million ain't chump change. What is your conceptual continuity?
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PA United States Member #66644 October 16, 2008 114 Posts Offline |
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It is a no-brainer !
Take the cash to avoid The Democratic Share The Wealth Plan !!!!!
I wouldn't contribute any more than I had to - to TRICKLE DOWN POVERTY !
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Idaho United States Member #56982 November 21, 2007 3225 Posts Online |
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Geez Louise, I've never heard such depressing comments after a jackpot win of this size. Did everyone's Prozac prescription run out at once?
Congrats to the winner or winners! Nice to hear about a win from D.C. I was thinking the same thing. Congrats to the winner(s)! I am sure they are very happy at this moment.  "No one remembers the person who almost climbed the mountain, only the person who eventually gets to the top."
ThatScaryChick
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charlotte, north carolina United States Member #65783 September 22, 2008 808 Posts Offline |
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PA United States Member #23322 October 6, 2005 1823 Posts Offline |
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Negative? Where? I am factual and just bored of the same old line of crap. You don't know what negative means obviously.
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