minermark Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Ok so far here are a few of the Minus side of comments. 1. I don't play but for that kind of coin I might stop a get a ticket for Sat.... 2. Daily rant: The problem is half of America doesn't have any money left over at the end of the week, let alone would they ever be able to buy a home. It's insane how living paycheck to paycheck has become the norm for half of our citizens. I'm not saying folks being poor isn't entirely their fault. I grew up on welfare, but put myself through college with grants and a few loans, got my engineering degree and have a decent job. But, my sister also went to college (mainly cause her degree doesn't pay much and she wanted to make a difference so took a low paying non-for profit job to do that), and lives paycheck to paycheck. I see lots of folks who graduated college working at best buy and other places making $10-11/hour! I made more than that when I was 19 and that was 18 years ago. I have to wonder why folks think it's ok to pay their employees a wage that is not livable, etc... But, I also have to wonder why the nice kid at best buy thought history would be a great major with a sound financial future. No way can HALF the workforce do everything you list when they can't even pay rent on time. This next generation is truly SOL. People have to learn to stop picking their degree and job based on what feels good (what happened to going to the career center and just picking one that paid a decent starting wage that's how I picked mine), and be willing to either learn a trade that pays well or study a major that will require a lot of their free time but pays off in a few years. This is basic common sense, and can be modeled in excel in less than an hour using simple techniques like net present value. If said major isn't likely to pay off, how about you pick a different one? We aren't teaching kids how to think financially sound and be resourceful and it will eventually kill our economy. To make things worse, there are poor kids like I was who are doubly screwed as most of their parents are dirt bags, they have no one to learn from or look up to, and no one telling them to go to college. To make matters most school systems are completely SOL and broken, but no one cares since they move out of the city in the nice suburbs (where I live). Then you have dip !@#$ on fox news who make a million a year saying how we should essentially stop feeding these kids who are on welfare. Don't get me wrong, I used to be a big time republican, but the stuff I hear my ex party spout is none-sense. Like trickle down economics: um no, if folks don't make enough money to live, they aren't going to buy any goods duh... More tax breaks for the rich, umm no most of them get their income taxed at the capital gains tax rate which is much lower than mine... etc... I will vote for Rand Paul though. Im going for 5 outta 6 and really dont even need that. Have no great need, im just fine, planned retirement for the last 40+ years, nothing could be better. Note to Worker Bee's, save, Buy stock, Invest, buy used cars/trucks/homes, no reason to buy much new. @62 you will thank me. Guess it's safe to say no winner will be taking ANY of you're money. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJkizak Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 I just bought my auto Powerball ticket with everything for $3.00. Now I can have peace of mind and get on with my life. JJK 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 I thought we were talking about speedballing not powerball Sent from my SM-N920P using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZEUS121996 Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 One of the members at the club won a couple million back in 95. Quit his job and He continued to buy $200 worth of tickets every week. That was when there was just the state Lotto. I would think that money has to be pretty much gone by now. And why would you keep buying tix? Greed could be blamed, but Stupid is more likely Mark 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeDirt Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 I tell you what I'd do ...... two chicks at the same time, man! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 One of the members at the club won a couple million back in 95. Quit his job and He continued to buy $200 worth of tickets every week. That was when there was just the state Lotto. I would think that money has to be pretty much gone by now. And why would you keep buying tix? Greed could be blamed, but Stupid is more likely Mark There has been people winning it twice by doing that. Sent from my SM-N920P using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JL Sargent Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 I tell you what I'd do ...... two chicks at the same time, man! Now that's just JoeDirt talkin. I would build a million dollar rec park for our small community. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wvu80 Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 (edited) And why would you keep buying tix? Greed could be blamed, but Stupid is more likely Which brings us to Jack Whittaker, West Virginia's most famous winner and loser. He is the poster boy for how to screw up your life by winning the lottery. He continued to spend $600 a week buying lottery tickets. http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/10/pf/lottery-winners-losers/index.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Whittaker_%28lottery_winner%29 He was already a multi-millionaire ($17 mil) when he hit the lottery in 2002 for $315 mil. He has had multiple tragedies and now lost it all. Last I heard had checked himself into rehab. Edited January 8, 2016 by wvu80 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minermark Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 (edited) And why would you keep buying tix? Greed could be blamed, but Stupid is more likely Which brings us to Jack Whittaker, West Virginia's most famous winner and loser. He is the poster boy for how to screw up your life by winning the lottery. He continued to spend $600 a week buying lottery tickets. http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/10/pf/lottery-winners-losers/index.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Whittaker_%28lottery_winner%29 He was already a multi-millionaire ($17 mil) when he hit the lottery in 2002 for $315 mil. He has had multiple tragedies and now lost it all. Last I heard had checked himself into rehab. There we go, i knew we would draw out those hard luck storys :emotion-21: Edited January 8, 2016 by minermark 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babadono Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 How do you "lose" $332 million? Does it mean squandered it? I guess I just don't get it. If you made some safe investments that only paid you 1% a year that'd be $3.32 million a year to "blow"(up your nose or otherwise). Like I said I just don't get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minermark Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Just got back in to the homestead, picked up a couple tickys. Drama news people are really pushing the "Billion" dollar senerio. Local Hadgi-Mart, no lines, no Drama. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wvu80 Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 (edited) How do you "lose" $332 million? Does it mean squandered it? I guess I just don't get it. If you made some safe investments that only paid you 1% a year that'd be $3.32 million a year to "blow"(up your nose or otherwise). Like I said I just don't get it. For the $315 PB winnings he took cash option, paid taxes and was left with "only" 81 mil. It is true he gave 10% to the local churches. It is also true he had a half mil in the trunk of his car at a local bar (it was in our local news) and it was stolen. There were stories about "thieves" taking all his money (see the Wiki link) He was taken to court for bouncing a 1.5 million check to a casino, so there were obviously gambling problems. +++ Powerball is up to $800 million, largest pot in lottery history in the US. If you win, that means you would so rich you could fully fund the workings of the US government! For three seconds. Edited January 9, 2016 by wvu80 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyOwn Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 It's mine I tell you...I already got a new cell phone and a new phone number :emotion-22: Oh and Cheers to all here 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarheel Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Just bought 5 MegaMillion tickets currently $165,000,000 and 5 PowerBall currently $800,000,000 I'm a lock for sure Start thinking what you would like. Booze for Mark, Air Jordans for oldtimer, hydraulic lifts for MKP, high hills for Thad, toaster and a loaf of bread for Carl........ 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wvu80 Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Just bought 5 MegaMillion tickets currently $165,000,000 Big mistake. You should have put it all on the 800 million. Nobody can live on 165 million any more... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyOwn Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Just bought 5 MegaMillion tickets currently $165,000,000 Big mistake. You should have put it all on the 800 million. Nobody can live on 165 million any more... Exactly why I only play when it is this big...I want it all and I don't want to share it with anyone else that plays 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted January 9, 2016 Moderators Share Posted January 9, 2016 Just bought 5 MegaMillion tickets currently $165,000,000 and 5 PowerBall currently $800,000,000 I'm a lock for sure Start thinking what you would like. Booze for Mark, Air Jordans for oldtimer, hydraulic lifts for MKP, high hills for Thad, toaster and a loaf of bread for Carl........ Well done, I just hope you will not expect us to call you Mr Tarheel ? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minermark Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Just bought 5 MegaMillion tickets currently $165,000,000 and 5 PowerBall currently $800,000,000 I'm a lock for sure Start thinking what you would like. Booze for Mark, Air Jordans for oldtimer, hydraulic lifts for MKP, high hills for Thad, toaster and a loaf of bread for Carl........ Booze for Mark, No, No, No, THE PUB, Dammit MAN. And may not need that after i purchase my Highland Distillery. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minermark Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Just bought 5 MegaMillion tickets currently $165,000,000 and 5 PowerBall currently $800,000,000 I'm a lock for sure Start thinking what you would like. Booze for Mark, Air Jordans for oldtimer, hydraulic lifts for MKP, high hills for Thad, toaster and a loaf of bread for Carl........ Well done, I just hope you will not expect us to call you Mr Tarheel ? Depends on the size of the "Kick Down" 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minermark Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 I just fired up a FAT Maduro, Pre-celebration body conditioning.------- 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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