NAACP wants Texas Lottery shut down

Given the fact that I am disabled, I will stand my ground against your threats of violence!

I am not misguided, I am not stupid enough to fall for the Democratic Extremist myths and fairy tales!

So typical of you to threaten those that disagree with you!

 I am a true Patriot, not a Fascist thug like you.

Jama, you are lucky I am an officer and a gentleman...a highly educated one to be exact.  It never ceases toamaze me how liberal people feel they must resort to name calling to make themselves feel better or just to express the feeble thoughts rattling around in their empty brains.  I don't have time to waste on non sense so read my previous post to another feeble-minded liberal.

He does Artist! Although if you could die his hair and mustache a few shades lighter (white), you'd almost have a dead ringer. 

   Great points majestic1070!

He is the son Larry Tate would have had...lol

 Can't we all just get along?

Kumbaya my lord..................Kumbaya.   

Let us pray for world peace, the end to hunger, and wisdom for the low income people of Texas, to use Steve Players Pyramid System.       

You are shameful and disgraceful. I guess this is why you preferred for Herman Cain of all people to be President of the United States, what a disgrace! Herman Cain, a sleaze ball who treats women like crap. Love your self, It's who you are!

  I see the same thing here.  There are so many people now who do not want to work ... period...

Why should they?  They can draw a check, get food stamps, and health care and not have to roll out of bed until noon and spend their day watching tv...and taking a nap.

We have them come to the lot and ask for a car with nothing down and want to know why they cannot have one of the nicer cars on the lot.  They need air, keyless entry, and call when they run out of gas..

Why do I give a sh*t to whether they play the lottery or not? I pay taxes and I have to roll out of bed everyday to make sure those taxes are paid so they can have those checks delivered and those food stamps.

Oh I am just getting on my soap box here.  However, I don't feel that those who work should have to give up their lottery in Texas because some people have no CLASS!

Are you kidding me? NAACP wants to shut the Texas lottery down? Who the hell do y'all think you are? Why don't you just ban alcohol because the same <snip> people buying lottery tickets are also buying a forty ounce at the same <snip> time. And furthermore, it is not our fault (the people who are actually responsible) that these people can't do the right thing to save their lives! Hey Juanita get a life!

Herman Cain made something out of himself and so did OldSchoolPa.

While you're most likely sitting home on your fat azz watching Jerry Springer and Maury re-runs all day.

Quit whining, get up off your lazy, fat azz and go get a job.

I see this as a cluster of problems on many levels...and compounded. First, lottery games are designed to generate income, and thus, more people must lose than win. Also, this must happen frequently which is partly where odds are derived from. Losses are pre-determined and calculated for the most part. Some players understand this, but most people don't and they gamble with their food or bill money in hopes of getting lucky and becoming free of a present living condition or style. 

I do agree that people should be more efficient with their funds, and, especially if they're very poor. But, people often live on extreme hopes of winning a lottery some day and they spend monies on it which they shouldn't. It's not the lotteries' faults that people either can't or don't manage their monies because people mismanage funds in all areas of their lives...not just on lottery games. However, I do fault the lotteries for not doing a better job of making sure that average people fully understand the games' intentions and what the odds really mean when it comes to playing.

They lotteries do market purely on people's hopes and dreams of becoming free of debt and living care free. The problem is that the odds don't accommodate such a chance for more people to realize such a dream. I see where they could afford to have more frequent winners and still generate tons of money and make lots of profit, but this is too much like fair. In the end, though, if more people won then more people would play and higher volume sales would be realized. Maybe even record sales. Gotta give a little more to get a little more.

I still maintain my same position: if you want to get your lottery's attention and more fairness, then stop playing their games. Talking won't do anything, but taking your money away from them will. Low ticket sales on all the games will get attention quicker than any phone call, letter, protest, etc etc. I don't want to see the lottery shut down, I just want to see more people win on all tiers more often. For the amount of money they take in, it's only fair.

L.L.

Poor people spend proportionally more of their income on every thing they purchase when compared to those who have more money.  The difference is a small win like Pick-3 Straight gives the poor a shot at the utility value of money. 

For example, give a person a dollar a day to eat on, they can't.  However give them seven dollars at once and they can buy bread, eggs, raman noodles, hot dogs, 100 tea bags at the dollar store some of which may last into the next week. 

Instead of trying to force a false cure on everyone, the NAACP and Dr. Juanita Wallace should try education on how to best use money from a small lottery win or other sources to make money.

BobP

Great advice Bob!

Have you considered hosting a consumers advocate TV series? Could call it,  Ask Bob! 

If the dollar stores could incorporate bigger $1 items such as furniture, appliances, cars and houses, this economy may be jump started yet!