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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Michael Gerson, an opinion writer for the Washington Post wrote an expose of state sponsored gambling, mainly lotteries.. Instead of reigning in spending and or raising taxes, the hard choices, the government is in the business of treating its own citizens as marks and dupes. “The lottery is a particularly…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Americans have a fixation with winning lotteries. The one 99.99 percent sure thing with a lottery is that you will be poorer for playing. In a recent record setting Powerball lottery the odds of winning were 1 in 292 million. That is about the same as flipping a coin and getting the same result, (heads…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Salon.com reports that Americans spent $50.4 billion on lottery tickets. They further report that poor households spend a much greater portion of their income on lotteries—about 9 percent. While states continue to depend more on gambling income America’s couples continue to languish in poverty. Eleven…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Researchers from the Missouri University of Science and Technology and Duke University have found that young adults who are heavy users of the Internet may also exhibit signs of addiction. The study tracked the Internet usage of 69 students over a two month period, and found a correlation between some…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
This statistic is a reminder of society’s misplaced priorities. “Households with incomes of under $13,000 a year spend an average of 9 percent of their income on lottery tickets.” That’s almost a tithe of their income thrown away. If the legitimately poor can afford to squander 9% of their income on…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
HOPE When times are tough, people begin to look anywhere for relief. Apparently, one of the places our fellow Americans are looking for help are state lotteries. “Twenty-five of 42 states with lotteries have experienced higher sales of scratch-off and daily lottery games since July 2008, according to…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Value "Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure—pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return." (Luke 6:38 NASB) If I give some money to the Lord, he will give more money back to me? Is tithing…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
POOR In some places in Nevada it is legal to gamble or sleep with a prostitute, but it is illegal to give a homeless person something to eat. Las Vegas made it a crime to feed a homeless person in the city park. This law isn't random insanity; proponents of the law say that there are unintended consequences…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
GAMBLING/LOTTERY Lotteries offer big jackpots and instant riches, but these promises often mask the true economic nature of gambling. The National Center for Policy Analysis notes show that states usually keep only about a third of the money collected through ticket sales. The remainder is paid out in…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 6 views
Horse sense: That peculiar sense which prevents horses from betting hay and oats on what humans will do. Wish I’d Said That, Cleon Lyles, page 152
John Leffler • Illustration • • 2 views
Sin, as defined by a new Ellison Research study, is something almost always considered wrong, particularly from a religious or moral perspective. Out of the 30 behaviors studied, adultery was most often described as a sinful behavior by American respondents (81%). Next was racism (74%); using “hard”…