NAACP chapter wants the Texas lottery to close up shop.

[akatrex]

The Dallas NAACP chapter wants the Texas lottery to close up shop.

Members of the nation's oldest civil-rights group say they are frustrated by poor and minority Texans spending their money on tickets instead of necessities such as rent or health insurance, and they believe that the lottery isn't putting enough money into public education in the state.
So they unanimously voted this month to encourage state officials to end the lottery.

"People with very little money are spending their money on the lottery," said Juanita Wallace, president of the Dallas branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "This has been bothering us for a while."
She notes stories such as the one about a man who chose to use his limited dollars to buy lottery tickets, hoping to hit it big, rather than buy health insurance.

"He's dead," she said.
"People often times make decisions not in their best interests," Wallace said. "We have to look out for those people."

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/06/27/ ... -down.html

 

[islandman]

Ergo, buy health insurance and live forever.

 

[run_silent]

I've always thought that if the government really wants to make money off bad habits they should branch off from tobacco. alcohol and gambling and into prostitution and drugs. Now, there's some real money.

 

[fuckwaffle]

Hmmm...no mention about the crack cocaine or heroin they buy. Nor the beer and liquor. Do you think they'll call for the banning of alcohol next?

 

[koalabear]

It starts off with a lie, they are not the nations oldest civil rights group.

 

[webjock]

NAACP and Texas Lottery.

I've always thought that if the government really wants to make money off bad habits they should branch off from tobacco. alcohol and gambling and into prostitution and drugs. Now, there's some real money.

Hey, I like that!