I have seen a couple of different commercials on the tube recently touting the help that the average citizen is giving to the education of students in this state. Both of them showed that the citizens were less than capable of doing very good work on the different construction projects for schools. Amusing and the voice over indicated that it was fortunate that these people were actually helping by buying lottery tickets. Nowhere in the ads was it mentioned that the odds of winning a lotto jackpot were in the neighborhood of 7 million to 1, except in very very small print at the end of the ad. One guy I know has likened the lottery to a tax on those who are math challenged.
The thing that bothers me a lot has to do with the fluctuations of the number of people who buy the tickets. Somehow the lottery board must continue to come up with a newer effort to get more buyers. Since the numbers of tickets goes higher as the jackpot grows bigger, it seems to me that they are trying to get more people to gamble and swell the intake. What kind of a picture does this paint for children in our school systems? The state is mandated by the constitution to provide money for education and how is this done? By gambling on people to purchase ever greater numbers of tickets. Strange. It would seem to me that we are gambling our future generation being educated at all.
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