Comments on: Lotterynomics

By: baker

baker — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:51:36 +0000

And I was accused of being hard on Mande the other day….

By: FWFIV

FWFIV — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:08:57 +0000

According to Mande if you can scrape together a buck to buy a lotto ticket then things must be great. Would she only acknowledge a bad economy when everyone is reduced to begging for food.
Facts are facts, and no right wing nut can honestly deny that we have lost over a million and a half jobs in the last year, gas prices are crippling our ability to recover and some of our most solid companies are in deep trouble.
This is affecting almost everyone, not just poor, uneducated people who misguidedly play the lottery.
The willful ignorance of some of her posts is astounding.

By: HR Pufnstuf

HR Pufnstuf — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:30:29 +0000

Not only is this a TERRIBLE post, but it’s old news. WIS was reporting this weeks ago. Mande doesn’t have a clue.

By: reggie

reggie — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:56:54 +0000

will, dont you mean:

Candace-
a tooty tah, a tooty tah, tah tah tah tahhhh…

just thought id let you know

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:30:25 +0000

This article has no redeeming value. Ernie Passailaigue has more financial sense than Ms. Wilkes. Fitsnews has gone down hill.

By: Yikesers

Yikesers — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:26:42 +0000

While lottery tickets sales often ebb and flow with an economy, that means that ECONOMY IS OFTEN INDICATIVE OF LOTTERY SALES. NOT THAT LOTTERY SALES ARE INDICATIVE OF THE ECONOMY.

I know the difference can’t be so hard to swallow. Yet despite all other indicators to the contrary, you have taken an anomoly of lotterty ticket sales to belly the ACTUAL indicators of the economy such as unemployment, quarterly growth, trade deficits, the strength of the dollar, consumer confidence, disposable income, market indexes et cetera ad nasuem. Despite the stupidity of the premise for this article, I think the Onion could write a good counter piece about how “Despite reports that lottery ticket sales are up – using the raw numbers from the lottery commissions; economic indicators (usually inidicative of lottery ticket sales) actually show that lottery ticket sales must be down.” You have written the exact opposite headline saying that “Despite all of the actual economic data to the contray showing the economy to be in a really bad way right now, LOTTERY TICKET SALES are up!!! Whooo hooo!!! Therefore the economoy is good right?”

By: candace bergen-belsen

candace bergen-belsen — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:43:51 +0000

#6 –

That’s the shortest Mande Wilkes article yet.

By: Negatron

Negatron — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:42:26 +0000

This is retarded. I find myself morbidly enjoying these articles for their cluelessness. Also it validates my prejudice that right-wingers are just idiots with axes to grind.

By: StupidShouldHurtMore (SSHM)

StupidShouldHurtMore (SSHM) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:42:20 +0000

If you have enough disposable income to provide for the purchase of lottery tickets rather than your family, then you are CLEARLY better off than most.

What makes the economy appear worse than what it is is this: Fuel Costs – The Economic Barometer of the Average Joe. I guarantee if fuel costs return to last year’s levels . . . the economy magically appears better to most.

- SSHM

By: annonymouse

annonymouse — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:26:20 +0000

From the South Carolina Education Lottery’s own Demographic Study of its own player base:

LOTTERY PLAYER PROFILE â€“ Demographics of Games

Pick 3, Pick 4 and to some extent Carolina 5 players, are more likely to be skewed toward 55+, Non-White, lower educated and have lower HH income than the overall player base.
Demographic profiles of Instant Scratch and Powerball players are representative of the total player base.

So basically this says that old people and blacks with little education and are poor play the number games every day than the overall player base as a whole.

Gee and if that doesn’t tell you enough…pay a visit to your local convenience store at lunch time or right after work.