True story: I worked in a liquor store once, and this old lady comes in says "gimme a lottery ticket." Scratches it, and as she is doing it she muttered "damn crooks." Then she turns her head up and says "Gimme another one." True story, I kid you not.
America, you are SCREWING YOURSELVES!!!!
"Scratch-off tickets turn into a $764m pot of gold" by Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff | October 4, 2008
The numbers from the first quarter of this fiscal year are dire: State revenues missed the mark by $143 million. Sales tax figures plummeted $24 million from a year ago because people are buying less. The yo-yoing Dow Jones industrial average took a nose dive.
But lottery ticket sales? Those jumped by $14.5 million in Massachusetts the last three months.
"People are looking for extra cash," said the Rev. Richard McGowan, a professor of economics at Boston College who wrote a book about state lotteries. "The $20 instant lottery tickets give a pretty good rate of return. You can sit and dream for $20 that you might win a million."
And then be DISAPPOINTED when you DON'T!
And WHAT a BULLSHITTER, huh, Amurka?
And WTF is with the Boston Globe? They a SALES AGENT for the lottery? promoting the LOOTING of POOR PEOPLE?
Yup, that's the BIASED, AGENDA-PUSHING, pro-RICH, Boston Globe!!!!
Lottery sales surged 1.3 percent from July 1 through Sept. 27 compared with last year, when consumers spent a record $4.7 billion. Over the last three months, that is $764 million on scratch-off tickets alone.
In September, lottery officials unveiled a third $20 ticket - the Billion Dollar Bonanza. The first $1 million prize was won yesterday by a Roslindale couple who operates a bakery that had suffered its worst financial year to date, said Mark J. Cavanagh, director of the state lottery.
And it could HAPPEN to YOU, too, readers -- never mind the ODDS!
The games are cheap entertainment at a time when gas is prohibitively expensive and pricey diversions are out of the question, Cavanagh said. "They see a ticket and they think, 'Here's my shot.' " --more--"
That's what I'm talking about when I say SHIT HEADS!!!!
I NEVER play lottery because I DON'T WANT to give a DAMN DIME MORE to this FUCK-HOLE, ASS-FUCK STATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
