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August 23rd, 2008, 12:40 AM #1
Letters to the Editors--RE: PA Lottery (GUS)
Here is a copy of a letter I sent to 3 different newspapers regarding "Gus." Needless to say, none found it worthy of print.
What do y'all think?
Dear Editor,
Who is the Pennsylvania Lottery gearing their advertising to? "Gus, the second most famous groundhog in Pennsylvania," is a cute, cuddly, talking stuffed animal. This is obviously aimed at the youth of Pennsylvania. Camel brand cigarettes had to give up "Joe Camel" (an ugly big nosed caricature) because it was said that children would start smoking because they saw a cartoon smoking. Can't the same be true regarding gambling and a cute fuzzy doll? One doesn't even need to have proof of age since anyone can walk up to the scratch off distribution machines and buy tickets there. Watch one of these machines on a Saturday afternoon in a local grocery store. Watch as children run up to the machine (usually located near the gumball machines) with its brightly colored tickets, and beg their parents for a dollar. More surprisingly, watch how many parents relent to this request and actually allow the child to put the money in and push the button for a ticket. Watch how many younger people, under 18, waste their hard earned allowances by trying to hit it big. Is the fine Commonwealth of Pennsylvania trying to lure children into gambling with scratch off tickets, hoping they advance to wasting their money in the more lucrative casinos? Either way, the State gets their cut of the profits. What's next, putting kiddie poker machines in daycare centers? Best to start them off young, to desensitize them to losing money.
The Pennsylvania Lottery Commission should be ashamed of itself for allowing this blatant attempt to victimize our youth, by promoting gambling as an accepted, cute, fun way of life.
Please, let's put "Gus" away. Let's have real commercials of people not being able to pay their mortgages because they gambled their money away. Let's make it harder for minors to get hooked on gambling by removing these lottery ticket vending machines. Let's teach our children that gambling is an addiction and a habit, much the same as smoking and drinking, not something fun to do with your stuffed animals.
Zombie Response Team SECTOR 4 Ground assault unit
"Nothing defuses people like crazy." ~ Lycanthrope
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Re: Letters to the Editors--RE: PA Lottery (GUS)
LOL...that is hilarious.
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August 23rd, 2008, 02:41 AM #3
Re: Letters to the Editors--RE: PA Lottery (GUS)
and let's teach our children that if you are going to gamble, for f*ck's sake play table games! Feeding your hard earned money into a lottery machine or a computer controlled slot machine (that seem to have a remarkable ability to make jackpot payouts to PA Legislators) is not only dumb, it's also pointless, stupid, and moronic.
Be a Parent Teach your kids Poker and Craps.The last thing I want to do is hurt you... but believe me, it's on the damned list.
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August 23rd, 2008, 06:52 AM #4
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Craps for me
"you have no power; here is the power; feel the power, brat, and then speak again of how you come to kill the Eternal."
Pennywise The Clown
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August 23rd, 2008, 08:01 AM #5
Re: Letters to the Editors--RE: PA Lottery (GUS)
Very well written. What newspapers have you tried to get it printed?
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August 23rd, 2008, 08:08 AM #6
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Who would want to use a varmint for a mascot anyway? I like to shoot groundhogs! LOL
They should show a bingo game at the local Moose Lodge full of chimney smoking, grumpy old ladies fighting over the last 50/50 ticket! Now that's what gambling is all about! LOL
PS: Gambling is a tax for people that suck at math & statistics!
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August 23rd, 2008, 08:59 AM #7
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Lottery Tickets: State Tax for the stupid
Veritas Vos Liberat
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August 23rd, 2008, 09:33 AM #8
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August 23rd, 2008, 11:31 AM #9
Re: Letters to the Editors--RE: PA Lottery (GUS)
Zombie Response Team SECTOR 4 Ground assault unit
"Nothing defuses people like crazy." ~ Lycanthrope
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August 23rd, 2008, 12:41 PM #10
Re: Letters to the Editors--RE: PA Lottery (GUS)
No joke. The alleged "casino" down in Washington County is ridiculous. Go there, put a dollar in, press a few buttons and it tells you you lost. Put another dollar in, press a few buttons, and it tells you: congratulations! You win $0.50! Repeat. I lost interest in about two minutes.
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