NY Lottery contributed $2.6 billion to education

Comment #23

Colt45ML — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 02:08:26 GMT

And there you have it, the reason why I want to be able to claim my mega millions or powerball jackpot prize anonomously and leave the country with it and my family. The stench is so bad in this country 24/7 until I just want to throw up 24/7. Well, I don't really want to, but I do possess the sentiment.

Comment #22

rdgrnr — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:46:07 GMT

Excuse me missy, (assuming your gender - you didn't want it included in your profile)

I don't mean to interfere with your hate and angst filled tirade against everyone here who loves America but I was wondering about a few things.

Shouldn't educated people like you at the very least be proficient at spelling before bragging about how educated you are and how great our teachers are and what a great educational system we have? Is this the same system that taught you how to spell? The union t... [ More ]

Comment #21

Prob988 — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:52:44 GMT

It is unsurprising, I think, that people who most hate education and teachers are precisely the people who think they are going to win the lottery.

All of the people who teach my children have at least six years of college education, many of them having had to complete courses in higher math.

Some of them struggled mightly to make ends meet to accomplish this task, working two or three extra jobs.

I like to play the lottery, and I like to fantasize that I'm going to win, but I don't exp... [ More ]

Comment #20

sully16 — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:12:13 GMT

Well said,

Comment #19

rdgrnr — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:08:40 GMT

That's what we get when the touchy-feely, busy-body crowd who overwhelmingly dominate our educational system, news media and entertainment industry have control of the Senate and White House too.

They seek to emasculate male children to make them more in the image of themselves - politically correct, limp-wristed, mealy-mouthed, indecisive, vacillating, waffling, nervous-nellie, whining little wimps. Kinda like a cross between Harry Reid and Barney Frank and Anthony Wiener.

Our job? Don't... [ More ]

Comment #18

sully16 — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:57:47 GMT

You Nailed it , Lets all go back to the good old days.

Comment #17

time*treat — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:27:21 GMT

Back in the old days, they might have had to clean up the lunch room for a week -- and may have gotten a few swats on the rear for their payment, all without the parents even being informed or with the incident being noted in their permanent records (other than everyone's memory).

These days, the schools have to deal with too many parents (and their lawyers) that think their little stain-on-humanity can do no wrong, and swatting is considered battery (truthfully, it never was an equal-opportu... [ More ]

Comment #16

B$Rizzle — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:07:53 GMT

That makes sense, thats what I figured. It was just kinda strange they didnt include the salary percentage in the breakdown, almost like they wanted to withhold the info so the reader only saw education gets a big chunk.

Comment #15

MADDOG10 — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:53:57 GMT

Totally agree Sully,

Teach them something Yes, but let them be kids. I guess they've forgotten how to be a kid..! Intervention with a physcologist over that ? What the hey..!

P.S. tell them navel orange wedges shoot the farthest...

Comment #14

Todd — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:16:46 GMT

Somebody has to run the lottery. I think the figure (when you take the rounding out) is around 1.6 cents of each dollar goes to running the lottery. Very efficient, I think. Not a lot of fat there, especially for a lottery as big as New York's.

Comment #13

Mark Haigh — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 04:00:56 GMT

Never take a mans stapler.

Comment #12

rdgrnr — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:34:07 GMT

Yeah Office Space , that was it! That was a great movie.

Milton Waddams: [talking on the phone] And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Bosto... [ More ]

Comment #11

freeobama — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:30:09 GMT

NY definitely got the money all the jackpots they win

Comment #10

rdgrnr — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:22:27 GMT

Dittoes.

Comment #9

JONNIE — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:02:39 GMT

$2.6B to education and the schools suck.. Thanks to me mostly for losing $$$ LOL

Comment #8

maringoman — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 19:09:40 GMT

The teachers spoil the kids so so much its crazy. I agree with you guys. When kids do silly things, no need for counselling or unendless parents teachers meetings, just punish the kids. Punish them and let them know a repeat offence is going to be punished even more severely.

Most kids have learnt to push the boundaries because they have realized parents are just yakking machines. All they do is yak then they give pocket money.

Comment #7

sully16 — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:14:08 GMT

I think we need someone to oversee where the educational dollars are going, not just a pie chart that gives us a quick breakdown.

Example of educational waste.

My son and 3 of his buddies ( ALL OF THEM 11 YEARS OLD) had a contest at lunch one day,

who could squeeze juice from orange wedges the farthest ( Alpha male syndrome )

Not my proudest moment as a parent. What came next , boggles my mind.

The boys had to have an intervention, they had to discuss therir feelings and describe

Comment #6

B$Rizzle — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:32:25 GMT

Ha ha Office Space was a great movie

Comment #5

time*treat — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:26:38 GMT

That's not a bug; it's a feature.

Comment #4

rdgrnr — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:17:57 GMT

I saw a movie where the scheme was taking all the extra pennies from each transaction and diverting them to a separate bank account.

It added up to huge amounts of money in no time.

Of course government officials would never even think of doing something like that.

Unless maybe they saw the movie...

Comment #3

B$Rizzle — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:51:55 GMT

For every $1 spent on the lottery, $.34 goes to education, $.58 is allocated to winners in the forum of prizes, and $.06 is paid to retailers for their sales commissions.

Where does the ogther $.02 per dollar go

Comment #2

HaveABall — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:54:25 GMT

Perhaps someone can explain why, after half a century, the children students and educators remain: unmotivated, unscholarly, unnurtured, unkind, harassed, and exhibit a general hopelessness

Comment #1

rdgrnr — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:44:35 GMT

Hopefully this will keep the teachers union thugs from rioting and destroying and maliciously defacing the Capitol building like they did in Wisconsin.

They just better never think of reducing the amount given to them by so much as a penny no matter what even if they have to borrow the money or there'll be trouble.

NY Lottery contributed $2.6 billion to education

Lottery Post — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:36:23 GMT

Includes video report

By Todd Northrop

With recent media attention focused on soaring Mega Millions sales, many people are curious how the lottery proceeds are divided and spent.

WNYT in New York asked the New York Lottery, and contacted several local school districts, to follow the trail of money from players' pockets to textbooks and commissions.

Last year lottery sales in New York State totaled more than $7.8 billion, of which $2.6 billion went to education funding.

The $2... [ More ]