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WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH

Some moron won $450,000,000 on the Lotto yesterday. Are you HAPPY? Can you see how sick this Lottery is?

Do you understand how sick it is to give some idiot who spent one dollar this kind of financial power?  

Doesn't there need to be a cap on this lotto thing?     Let several people win 20 million?   This is dangerous.  This is a waste of money and just so sad.

Every person that has won a prize, does not really deserve anything.  It was luck and it was fortune.  It speaks to how little this world appreciates bounty when they can just thrust that many millions upon any individual who spends $1 on a ticket?  $5?  or $10.   Whatever those tickets cost.

I say, there should be a CAP on the lotto and when it is reached, another drawing needs to be for the remainders of the pot. 

How about for every dollar you have to throw away for a ticket, you have to pay $1 for some organization to stave off world hunger?

That $450,000,000 would go very far to feed America, or South Africa, or India.   You get me?

Do you want $450,000,000 to go to your idiot next-door neighbor who "GOT LUCKY"?    I think $5,000,000 is all the happiness I can share on his behalf.  $450,000,000 is way too much for anyone who shells out a ticket for something.

Posted - June 11, 2017
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  • 53509


    1. What would you be griping about if you had won it instead of the person who did?

    2. What would you be griping about if she/he now shared a portion of the winnings with you?

    Those grapes must taste pretty bitter to you. 






      June 11, 2017 10:25 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    I would NEVER take this stance if I were jealous or want that kind of windfall.  I think it is very sick.  It speaks volumes when you cannot even fathom how I would feel.   Please at least consider that I could care less if someone else WON.  It is the Lotto that I have nausea against.  This is sick.   What individual on this planet needs a free and clear $50,000,000 much less $450,000,000.

    What are you even thinking? 
      June 11, 2017 11:24 AM MDT
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  • 53509

    Does Willow play the lottery?  How about anyone else close to you?
    (By the way, I do not.)
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      June 11, 2017 11:34 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Are you capable of thinking straight at ALL?  

    What does it matter who plays.  The system is giving way too much money to any party who wins that much.  Who allows this wealth to be hoarded by one individual?   Who gives  $450,000,000 away --  when there is a school system in this country that is on its last legs.  Isn't this federally backed?    There are starving people all over the place. 

    What does anyone PLAYING or buying a ticket  have to do with this issue?  You talk like a sausage.   You think I care who wins?  I said that is not the issue.  I have to repeat myself because all you are looking for is periods and commas out of place.  This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at June 11, 2017 12:25 PM MDT
      June 11, 2017 11:36 AM MDT
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  • 53509

    So you don't like sausage, is that it?

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      June 11, 2017 12:28 PM MDT
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  • 46117
      June 11, 2017 3:04 PM MDT
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  • Hahahahaha! Boya!
      June 12, 2017 2:03 PM MDT
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  • 44617
    I dislike lotteries. Originally, Ohio's lottery commission said a majority of the money would go for our schools. What a joke. Schools get about 5%. This post was edited by Element 99 at June 11, 2017 10:47 AM MDT
      June 11, 2017 10:35 AM MDT
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  • 53509


    I'm willing to bet (pardon the pun) that a LOT of pockets are lined with lottery revenue  in secret. 

    :(
      June 11, 2017 10:37 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    people are no damned good
      June 11, 2017 10:41 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Well, according to that figure, the schools would have gotten at least 8 million out of this $450,000,000.

    What I think, is that the purchaser should only get $8,000,000.   The schools should get the rest.   That kind of windfall would change education in about 225,000 grade schools and high schools at least.  Think about this. 
      June 11, 2017 10:40 AM MDT
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  • 6988
    One crisp autumn morning, about 20 years ago, I found a lottery ticket laying on my front lawn. I picked up the litter and thought how careless some fool was! I took it inside. As I examined it, I noticed it was actually a winner that had blown it's way to my front door. Someone didn't read the ticket right--------- so I took it to a lottery retailer who announced that I had won $2.
      June 11, 2017 10:54 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Well, I wish it was a lot more, bh, but I do not wish it was $450,000,000.  
      June 11, 2017 10:56 AM MDT
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  • 6988
    I do!
      June 11, 2017 11:17 AM MDT
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  • 53509

    (its way)
      June 11, 2017 11:22 AM MDT
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  • I know, let someone responsible like me have it :)
      June 11, 2017 11:23 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Anyone who was responsible wouldn't take it.  Not for himself anyway.  But it never seems to go in that direction. 
      June 11, 2017 11:26 AM MDT
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  • One imagines you would not be so upset had you won the lottery.  How does winning the lottery make one an "idiot"?   And to the idea that one should be required to give a dollar to a relief organization for each dollar one "throws away" on the lottery what about the dollars you throw away eating out when you might eat at home?  Or going to some entertainment which does no hungry person benefit? Or an unnecessary piece of clothing, a vacation...  
      June 11, 2017 11:30 AM MDT
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  • 53509
    Maybe ol' Shar would turn down every penny of it, whether she won it herself or someone close to her won it and shared a portion with her. A true saint, that woman. 

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      June 11, 2017 12:31 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    Maybe OLD RANDY would try and put things in perspective.  If I won a million or two that is one thing.  If I won 450,000,000, I think I would be taking the stand I now am taking.  It is too much money to throw away on one citizen who bought a ticket.  It should have a cap and it should be shared with more than one person.  I am not jealous.   Why would I be?  I don't think I ever bought more than one ticket in my life.  Don't care.
      June 11, 2017 1:55 PM MDT
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  • 53509
    Shar-Shar, you mean to say that if you won $450 mil, you wouldn't donate the lion's share of it to your favorite charity?  I'm sure Save the Towels or I Rant Therefore I Am or Dump Trump's Butt or whichever flavor you like today could use the loot, right?

    Sainthood, baby. That's what I'm selling here. 
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      June 11, 2017 3:24 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    One has their head up their you know what.  Why don't you try reading the point of the question.  You remind me of the geniuses who accuse someone of picking on a hot woman is jealous.


    I got that from the right-winged empty minds who said I was jealous of Anne Coulter.  That is for those who think Anne Coulter is pretty.  Kind of horsey. 
      June 11, 2017 1:53 PM MDT
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  • 3191
    Capping the pot would lower ticket sales dramatically.  People spend so much on the lottery precisely because the pots, and payouts, are huge.  

    If you don't like how much the cut is to education, organize a petition drive and submit the signatures to your lottery commission.  But with capped lotteries, sales would drop and schools would get less.  With no lotteries, schools lose out on that extra funding completely.  Any way around it, the lotteries benefit the schools.  


      June 11, 2017 1:28 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    They don't benefit the schools ENOUGH.  

    They benefit Joe the Plumber.  One ignoramus.    Versus money for the masses. 

    So, IF the lottery can only bring in 8 million so some anus can dream about getting $450,000,000, then something is unbalanced and wrong with this ludicrous idea.

    Me going around wasting my time getting this changed is absurd.   We both know how ineffective that would be.

    But can you understand a concept?   Can you digest the fact that Joe Moron doesn't want to play when he realizes he can only make $20,000,000 and the school gets the rest of the $450,000,000.

    That is what makes me realize we are not playing with a full deck in this world.   
      June 11, 2017 2:19 PM MDT
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