State Lottery
The state lottery has got to be the most degenerate form of gambling. An individual has about as much chance of winning as a comet striking the planet Earth.
Last week 36 million tickets were sold with no winner. Put another way, imagine one individual spent $36 million on tickets. He would have lost everything.
What the lottery is in reality is a path to certain wealth for the promoters and the army of parasites who live off deluded hopes of the ignorant. A morally corrupt state permits advertisements to pander to these hopes in a disgraceful way. If a lottery ticket were a pack of cigarettes making such claims, it would be out of business.
Such is the morality of the state of California.
STEPHEN CHARNEY
Pacific Palisades
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