A reader recalls being a teacher in the 1980s and the promises of extra money for schools because of the lottery. He sees something similar with Prop. 27. (via latimesopinion)
, scheming to create a new generation of gambling addicts while paying lip service to the real suffering of homeless people.
Now walk into any convenience or liquor store, and you’ll see people, often down and out, buying lottery tickets and scratchers, laying out hard-earned money to feed their gambling addiction. We found the 800-mile round-trip to Las Vegas to be costly. But some financially challenged friends went anyway, for a reason they deemed most compelling: They felt that Vegas casinos provided a good chance of getting money to make their next rent payment.
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