Reason #5,110 to hate lottery winners

[Phillip V]

Phil is a sneaky sneak. 

Washington was quite vigorous about information warfare and putting together a very secretive ring of spies. However, he did indeed let himself be duped by the traitorous Benedict and Mrs. Arnold, the latter beautiful 20-year-old escaping by stripping off her clothes and acting crazy surprised.

[merithyn]

Yeah we should never put responsibility on individuals when we can blame someone else. And you're right, I won't make that mistake again now that you've given your true measure.

Let alone the fact that we were discussing a lottery winner and whether they might spend it all.

g, it said right in the article that his daughter had been sick and he'd quit his job to care for her. That you immediately jumped on the "poor money management" schtick was ridiculous.

[garbon]

Yeah we should never put responsibility on individuals when we can blame someone else. And you're right, I won't make that mistake again now that you've given your true measure.

Let alone the fact that we were discussing a lottery winner and whether they might spend it all.

g, it said right in the article that his daughter had been sick and he'd quit his job to care for her. That you immediately jumped on the "poor money management" schtick was ridiculous.

In my article sure. Seedy's article just said he had a daughter that died of a sudden illness. But perhaps you're right - when I come across someone having money troubles I should figure it is because of Republican lawmakers.

[Eddie Teach]

when I come across someone having money troubles I should figure it is because of Republican lawmakers.

Glad that's settled. 

[sbr]

Yeah we should never put responsibility on individuals when we can blame someone else. And you're right, I won't make that mistake again now that you've given your true measure.

Let alone the fact that we were discussing a lottery winner and whether they might spend it all.

g, it said right in the article that his daughter had been sick and he'd quit his job to care for her. That you immediately jumped on the "poor money management" schtick was ridiculous.

In my article sure. Seedy's article just said he had a daughter that died of a sudden illness. But perhaps you're right - when I come across someone having money troubles I should figure it is because of Republican lawmakers.

You don't necessarily have to do that, but also you probably shouldn't automatically assume that someone that had financial trouble once is a sure bet to piss away $4 million in lottery winnings.

[garbon]

Who said I was perfectly sure? I was just looking at likely outcomes given facts on hand.

I also just wanted to annoy Seedy for his hippie bullshit.

[sbr]

Who said I was perfectly sure? I was just looking at likely outcomes given facts on hand.

I also just wanted to annoy Seedy for his hippie bullshit.

Annoying Seedy is always a legit reason to do or say anything.

However you seemed pretty sure that he would go broke again, based on "His past history of going broke"

[merithyn]

In my article sure. Seedy's article just said he had a daughter that died of a sudden illness. But perhaps you're right - when I come across someone having money troubles I should figure it is because of Republican lawmakers.

I suggested that it was because of a poor economic situation (world-wide, mind you, so certainly not blaming the GOP) and the high-cost of medical care (there are a million reasons for that, and they neither start nor end with the GOP).

I'm not Seedy. Please don't assume that everything I say is a knock to the GOP.

[CountDeMoney]

Annoying Seedy is always a legit reason to do or say anything.

WHATEVAH

However you seemed pretty sure that he would go broke again, based on "His past history of going broke"

Maybe not;  he could've run out of daughters.

[garbon]

However you seemed pretty sure that he would go broke again, based on "His past history of going broke"

And I'll continue to stand by the idea that if you hear a story about a broke lottery winner - it isn't unreasonable to guess that he'll likely end up broke again.  However, as I then said, once seeing that he quit his job and spent all his money on his daughter who had a 2 year battle with illness - I revised my position.

[garbon]

In my article sure. Seedy's article just said he had a daughter that died of a sudden illness. But perhaps you're right - when I come across someone having money troubles I should figure it is because of Republican lawmakers.

I suggested that it was because of a poor economic situation (world-wide, mind you, so certainly not blaming the GOP) and the high-cost of medical care (there are a million reasons for that, and they neither start nor end with the GOP).

I'm not Seedy. Please don't assume that everything I say is a knock to the GOP.

I just recall you being angry that I was too quick to blame the man for his own problems and not society.

[merithyn]

I suggested that it was because of a poor economic situation (world-wide, mind you, so certainly not blaming the GOP) and the high-cost of medical care (there are a million reasons for that, and they neither start nor end with the GOP).

I'm not Seedy. Please don't assume that everything I say is a knock to the GOP.

I just recall you being angry that I was too quick to blame the man for his own problems and not society.

Given that societal problems like those I mention are endemic right now, yeah, it's pretty shitty to immediately jump to that without giving the person the benefit of the doubt. If this were 1950, that'd be one thing, but in 2013, it's pretty much 50/50 on where the blame could end up.

[fhdz]

There are two kinds of people who have an extremely difficult time getting over the notion that poor people must have done something wrong to end up there: people who have never been poor, and people who have been poor but managed to luck out of their bad situation, but mistake their luck for skill.

[CountDeMoney]

There are two kinds of people who have an extremely difficult time getting over the notion that poor people must have done something wrong to end up there: people who have never been poor, and people who have been poor but managed to luck out of their bad situation, but mistake their luck for skill.

Or they're just assholes.

[PDH]

There are two kinds of people who have an extremely difficult time getting over the notion that poor people must have done something wrong to end up there: people who have never been poor, and people who have been poor but managed to luck out of their bad situation, but mistake their luck for skill.

Or they're just assholes.

That was option 1