by Ryan Meehan
It’s a recession. Times are tough. Consumers have less and less money to spend on a daily basis. And in a recession, the first thing that gets cut on the coporate level is marketing. This is usually because the business needs to focus on point of sale issues, and doesn’t have millions of dollars to blow on advertising like McDonald’s or WalMart. Point is, the unnecessary stuff is the first to go.
Unfortunately, this need to eliminate unnecessary spending doesn’t translate well to this “general populace” that I’ve been referring to a lot lately. Scratch lottery tickets are still flying off of the fucking shelves like it’s the end of the world.
One of the retail locations that I work at built a kiosk that is located directly in front of a scratch lottery ticket vending machine that I really wish I had keys to. Last Sunday, I watched a guy purchase 15 ten dollar tickets, and then come back in 5 minutes and purchase two more.
I’m also doing an article on cutting right now, which a lot of people believe is an addiction, which I don’t buy at all. I feel the same way about the scratch tickets. Let me explain.
When you’re a heroin addict, you have developed a physical dependence on opiates. There’s very little that’s mental about it. Your body has to keeping shooting dope or otherwise it will fall apart. And as crazy as it sounds, I can accept this because you’re actually GETTING something out of what you’re doing…i.e.: the feeling of being high.
Conversely, I find it very difficult to believe that scratching lottery tickets provides people with any sort of satisfaction. I mean, talk about thoughtlessly going through the motions and letting the upper one percent hold you down, knock your teeth out, and buttfuck your mouth. Seriously, why not just have the state direct deposit your welfare check directly into a slot machine?
I guess a big reason all of this bothers me so much, is you hear all this complaining about how there’s not enough education within the school systems. Yet they don’t teach those kids dick about how to spend, save, and ultimately invest their money. It’s hard to make the argument that the schools deserve more money when money management (see how this comes full circle?) isn’t part of the curriculum.
If you think this post was mean just wait until you see what I have coming out in the next three weeks.
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Meehan
The US government and the states which is it pro-or anti gambling ? Here in Florida they can’t have enough casinos owned or ran by the Seminoles or any of the other tribes. They have the state lottery where they say the monies will go towards education. But yet there’s a budgetary shortfall , school districts are now making drastic cuts and they’re now laying off teachers at every damn level of education right on up to the college system.
It’s all bull_hit and the whole world knows it !
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The school districts are municipal though man. The people who own the casinos, it’s their money.
Meehan
And trust me just because they say that money going towards the state’s education sytem doesn’t mean that’s where it ultimately ends up. There are a LOT of people that have to get paid before they even think about assigning millions of dollars to go anywhere.
Meehan
That’s been the biggest misnomer all along that the money does go to education . Some my well do but in large part much of it wasted on pet projects up and down the board .
Politicians are like whores they will bulls_it most of the time just to get their way.
And isn’t giving the money to assist in education kind of silly as they are getting it from hard working Americans that aren’t smart enough to know how to spend their money?
Meehan
Speak up the conservatives can’t hear you . Capitalism and consumerism have their faults but you’d be pressed to her those on the left or in the center say otherwise. But then again they wouldn’t know the difference between sh_t rolling downhill from molten lava.
State to state it differs but that still doesn’t negate the fact that education is getting the short end of the stick . In terms of the developed nations and education the US is no longer ranked in the top ten. It’s going to f_ck up this country’s future in terms of acdemic excellence becuse soon the undergraduates my not want to come here but remin in their home country or go elsewhere to further their education.