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Here comes the lottery

Legislators began filing bills for the coming session today and there at No. 2 in the House -- from rising Speaker Wills, Reep and Maloch -- is the lottery enabling legislation. It is but a shell at the moment.

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Max, I win the Powerball and you get a new Volvo sittin' on 24's.

That's a deal LR45. If I win the Powerball, $10 million off the top to ACLU or organization similarly inclined to sue the hell out of oppressors. And a fine ride for you, too, of course.

If we have 52 million dollars in state surplus then why did that jackass halter want to have a lottery to support the very thing that is destroying the US.
Kids need to go to work. Hard work enables the mind to learn.

Chasv,
In case you haven't noticed, the job market has shifted since the Industrial Revolution. While your line of thought held water 50 years ago, the present day reality would lead that child that went to the "school of hard knocks" to a lifetime of living paycheck to paycheck, constantly worried that his job would soon be shipped overseas.

As for hard work, I would say my experience of working 3 part time jobs AND going to school full time AND making grades good enough to be offered spots at three different graduate schools was plenty hard enough. Of course, I never would've been able to afford to go to any of these schools without hardearned scholarships and those wretched socialists that give kids Pell Grants.

In case you haven't noticed, the job market has shifted since the Industrial Revolution.
Posted by: my mind's a razorblade

Dang, blade, that is exactly what I was referring to.. man you are sharp.
You kinds give credence to my point. Hard work makes us smarter and healthier.

In case you haven't noticed, the job market has shifted since the Industrial Revolution.
Posted by: my mind's a razorblade

Dang, blade, that is exactly what I was referring to.. man you are sharp.
You kinds give credence to my point. Hard work makes us smarter and healthier.

Good! We need to get that money that has been going to other states to come back here to Arkansas.

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