Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaires

[TalkingDog]

[Turbineguy]

1. There are millions of us.

Just waiting to win the lottery.

[TalkingDog]

I think if they wanted to stimulate the economy they should break each prize down

into million dollar winners.

So Powerball at 235 million? 235 people get 1/2 million after taxes. Can you imagine what a boost that would be for our economy?

[Gin]

4. that's a good idea...for each million in the lottery...have one winner

per million...that would stimulate sales of tickets and purchases from the winners of goods and services....

[NNN0LHI]

18. My daughter works with a guy who won $14 million 7 years ago

He is still working today. In his 50's and won't quit. He won't hardly do any work either. But he won't quit. And he is tighter with his money than the bark on a tree. Dresses like a hobo. My daughter said he probably spends less on himself now than before he won the lottery.

Don

[Bandit]

3. Not me, I am waiting for a Nigerian Prince to put $39 million in my bank account

I got a fax from him saying he needed my bank account number so he could give me millions of dollars.. I know it is going to appear any day now....:shrug:

[bluerum]

2. Ain't that the truth. And the millionaires see the poor as cannon fodder.

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5. i'll always remember when my father asked a machinist in his lab why he was a republican

this was a machinist in a physics lab at ohio state university. probably was making maybe $30,000 or so per year (this was in the late 1970s), and he was 63 or 64 years old at the time, close to retiring.

he said he voted republican because "one day i'm gonna be rich, and when i'm rich, i want my taxes to be low!"

this is a guy with no plan, no rich uncle, didn't even gamble or play the lottery. he had NO prospect of becoming rich.
yet he didn't vote for anything that would help him become rich, he voted for something that would help him become richer should he somehow ever become rich.


the lure of greed is so powerful for so many that it ensnares even those who are being fleeced. he honestly though he was being greedy when in fact he was at best merely enabling the greed of others -- inevitably at his own expense.

[louis-t]

7. That was the excuse for voting repug in the '90s as well.

I remember talking to a guy in a bar once, that was his reasoning. "Cuz I wanna be rich someday."

[TheKentuckian]

14. Yup, I call it preemptive avarice. The condition is fatally stupid and I'm not sure it is curable

I can't think of one case where someone recovered before their deathbed.

[hifiguy]

10. My dad said the exact opposite

He was a union master mechanic who worked on heavy equipment. I tagged along with him as a boy of 8 when he went to vote in 1964. I asked him who he was voting for and he said "Johnson." I asked why. He said "Son if you get your paycheck from another man, you'd better vote for Democrats. The rich can take care of themselves."

Wiser words were never spoken.

[Maru Kitteh]

11. thanks for posting that

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13. that's like the old saying, "if you want to live like a republican, vote democratic".

[nykym]

6. John Dickinson:

"...don't forget that most men without property would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich, than face the reality of being poor."

[treestar]

8. Yes, all waiting to be discovered

as the geniuses they really are.

[sfpcjock]

9. That could stretch out...

a lot. :sarcasm:

:)

[valerief]

12. So that's what those people tossing money at video slot machines are thinking.

They're millionaires going through a bad spell. And I thought they were delusional halfwits.

:rofl:

Boy, is my face red.

[sad sally]

15. Nah, it's called addiction. n/t

[WCGreen]

16. Oh yea....

K&R

[NNN0LHI]

17. Pertinent story from todays news: Ill. lottery sales up 3 percent to set new record

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-lotterysales,0,3189602.story

Associated Press

1:40 p.m. CDT, August 15, 2011

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.— Illinois lottery ticket sales grew slightly during the past year to set a new record of nearly $2.3 billion, or about $177 for every person in the state, officials said Monday.

The total was 3 percent higher than the previous year's mark of just more than $2.2 billion.

The record-high sales generated $690 million for state programs. Education got most of the money, but statewide construction projects got $54 million and $4 million went to causes like research on breast cancer and multiple sclerosis.

"This is the highest amount of money transferred from the lottery in our 37-year history," said Jodie Winnett, the lottery's acting superintendent.