State Lottery

As a 77-year-old, I wish to protest the soon-to-be California lottery. Payments to winners to be paid over a period of 20 years! Indeed!

I believe that the winners should get the money they win without any strings attached. A winner can invest his winnings and put them to a much better use than the state with the usual grab-it-while-you-can inclinations of the average politician.

With the average life span today being in the 70s there should be no restrictions on anyone past the age of 50.

Any winnings I might get would be immediately put in to the marketplace in things I would like to buy and enjoy while I am still living, instead of the possibility of a better life in the hereafter.

RICHARD GIBBS MURPHY

Reseda