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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (108211)	6/29/2007 11:17:05 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

"It's hardly a failure, even if it loses money." ???? How does this guy define failure? <G>

To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (108211)	6/29/2007 12:40:48 PM
From: S. maltophilia	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

The Texas version: ...most affluent.. customers have little interest in higher-priced tickets, so he doesn't sell them. "They watch their money very carefully," Dhuka said. "They don't play." ..... ... Gerald Busald, a mathematics professor at San Antonio College who has campaigned to force the agency to publicize its long-shot odds on tickets and billboards, calls scratch-offs a form of "instant lack of gratification." In pushing them, Texas has turned into little more than a bookie, he said..... mysanantonio.com Seems like the lottery scammers are finding that the people's stupidity is only going to be exceeded by their own.