Yesterday was my 18th birthday, a huge milestone in my life. I can vote, buy cigarettes and other....things, and buy lottery tickets. It's interesting because most people that asked how my birthday was also instantly asked me, "Did you buy a lottery ticket?" To which I reply "No." Then the other side of my conscience goes, "Hey wait, why not buy one? I mean, a couple weeks ago the Illinois jackpot was at $640 million...imagine all of the possibilities with that amount of money..." He tempts me, but I manage to resist. Never will I ever buy a lottery ticket. Here's why.
There is a higher chance that you will get struck by lightning on your way to buying the lottery ticket than winning the lottery itself. There is a twenty-times higher chance that you will get into a car accident on your way to buying the lottery ticket(s) than winning the lottery itself. As tempting as it may seem, IT IS A WASTE OF MONEY. It is also kind of demoralizing to the American way. The lottery encourages you to gamble, to hope to win something for nothing. The American way is to work and thus be rewarded; the lottery expresses the contrary, receive a bunch of money for doing no work whatsoever. I don't want to support an organization that contradicts and challenges American principles. There are some people who claim that there is a strategy to winning the lottery. Here's their strategy: buy as many lottery tickets as possible. Doi. Besides wasting your money on more lottery tickets, there is no strategy to winning the lottery. The lottery is an un-American game of chance, slim chances at that. So why not spend your well-earned money on other things that stimulate the economy?
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