Quote: Originally posted by NeedyNotGreedy on Nov 30, 2016
So I'm in Tennessee this week and the news has been all the buzz with the 20 Powerball winners of the 400 million something. Co-workers at a probably multi-million dollar company, seems like they take home decent paychecks and probably already have all the creature comforts they need.
Not to sound like a poor sport, but that just iggs me a little bit. For all the people in the poor state of Tennessee, not to mention the entire country who probably prayed and spent their baby milk or medication money on the Powerball hoping for a win, didn't get it.
This is like a common scenario it seems with the big multi-state lotteries. And it makes me wonder if the conspiracies really have some merit. Now granted, the ones who won the 400 Mil did say they played lottery pools all the time "not expecting to win." So they had to have lost many, many times. But that's the way it always seems. Even when I was watching the show, "my big lottery dream home" or whatever, it was already people who already had money who won...and were just prospering on top of prospering.
I haven't seen a list of every single big jackpot winner out there, but it seems like the person who's down on their luck, really needing a big lotto win doesn't get it. It's almost leading me to believe I won't get the big win I need because I need it so much, and the needy never seem to get it. Only the "hard-working" blue collar workers who need to pay off their mortgage, not the struggling middle age person who can't find a job, much less afford a mortgage. Or the student who didn't finish college and is behind on student loans and stuck trying to finish their degree.
Doesn't it just piss you off? Guess the best way is to avoid playing as 1 person said on here, "predatory" lotto games. But even still for me, 11 months strong and haven't won more than $24 off a draw game. But, I'm still keeping faith and playing faithfully...
And the other thing that gets me when people like this win: the general consensus/misconception is that playing the lottery is for those bad at math, looking for handouts, tax on the stupid, etc. And it feels true until you win...but it's like the ones who truly are needing a handout or bad at math or stupid don't seem to win it lol. So it's like yeah...all that is true, but we're going to let the hard-working SMART people win it. HAHA. In your face :(