I'm ashamed to say that I used to write for the Florida Lottery because I can see from their new commercials they have no standards at all. It used to be that you could not, with any lottery, show a person winning. Since your chances of winning are so infinitesimal it would be deceptive to suggest it was in any way easy or guaranteed. That doesn't stop The Florida Lottery. In a new commercial they show all kinds of persons winning, including the construction worker who rejoices with his friends and the graduate who it is suggested paid her way through college with her fabulous windfall. This is very immoral and very sad when you consider the many persons with low wages who "invest" so much of their salary on lottery or scratch-off tickets, or even the well-to-do who waste their capital on the remote possibility of a profitable win. The lottery is a long shot, a very long shot. It only looks possible because the one-in-a-million-or-more winners are so publicized. Gambling in general is a dirty business, which to some is glamorous and fun in a casino when used wisely, and dangerously habitual when employed by an uncaring government. And in both case millions have lost their money, their homes, their family, their self-respect, and in many cases their lives as gambling debts often result in suicide. Do I gamble? Yes. I buy two dollar tickets a week for the Wednesday and Saturday drawings. I have used the same number of over 29 years, and have never won more than $5 about every three months. That shows you how bad your odds are and how stupid the average person, including me, is to expect to hit that incredibly seductive and elusive jackpot.
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