So that's what happened to the water and electricity money!
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September 30, 2010 at 4:35pm
Here are our friends at the Labour Party Manglish media, reporting on the EUR1 million jackpot:
The high jackpot resulted in a reported drop in business as punters queued to get their hands on a ticket earlier today.
They wouldn’t be the same punters whose water and electricity were cut off, would they? Or the ones who lost their jobs but still paid for Tony Zarb and Co’s jaunt to Brussels?
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I wonder who reported the drop in business.
Lotteries are a problem as the poor find them irresistible. It’s the same for anybody who finds him/herself in a panic situation: many try to gamble their way out of the situation no matter what the class they come from.
I’m for drug legalisation, and gambling legalisation but I know they’re a big problem that needs structural changes in society to reduce their negative influence.
Daphne, it is also what happened to the steak money.
Not even pizza this week.
Just pastizzi jew imqaret.
It is not unheard of for people seemingly on the poverty line to spend around 175 Euros in one go on lottery tickets.
Go and look at the bingo halls.
You’re always a loser when gambling.
If you win, you are encouraged to take another chance, hoping you’d add more. At the same time that you risk gambling the money you won, you keep on playing because it seems to you as though you can afford to lose what came for free.
And you keep on losing and gambling until the end, hoping you’ll recoup what you’ve lost until you realize you haven’t a penny more. Then you are depressed and only God knows what’s next.
Gambling is an addiction. Most people beyond the poverty line never play the lotto or super five. Only the addicts do.