640 effing million

I know. I don't blame you if you were irritated. Sorry about that. I'd have been irritated, too.

 

Why does she have two houses?

 

Not irritated either. Let it go.

 

It looks like she bought a new home with the winnings and still had a house to pay off.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2111060/Amanda-Clayton--1m-lottery-winner-STILL-collecting-welfare.html

 

Did it say she had a kid in that story?

 

No, I modified my post. Just a guess as not many single adults without kids receive SNAP.

 

24-year-olds without jobs probably do.

 

One of my friends in high school's parents won the lottery when she was a little girl. I think they won $2 million, and lived in a fairly small but comfortable duplex in our town, which was/is a pretty lower to lower middle class town. She had a new car, about the only person I knew with one, but I think that had as much to do with her step dad being a doctor as with the lottery. She would tell us that they weren't anywhere close to "rich" from the lottery, though she did have her entire education handled, both an expensive undergraduate school and an expensive law school (not sure how much she got in scholarships as she's a smarty - valedictorian.)

 

I just figured out what would happen if I won 640 effing million.

My brain would be so wracked with confusion over the odds against having won 640 effing million -- I mean, it's like 800 times more than being murdered -- that I simply wouldn't be able to handle it, I'd pop my aorta, and everyone else would get to share all that nice money.

 

Isn't that why roughly 90 percent of laws are proposed and passed? Ninety-nine out of 100 people will never rob a liquor store, but we still have laws against it.

 

We had family friends win a Porsche from a radio station when I was a kid. I think thy ad trouble paying taxes on it and a few months after they got the car, an "accident" or someone driving drunk put the car in a canal.

 

A more apt comparison is shutting own a liquor store because it is a target for robbers. Nothing wrong in punishing frauds terms, but shutting down SNAP because of fraud?