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Then you get to pick someone else that gets $2500 a week for life after you're dead. Wife and I seen the commercial last night and I commented that's a terrible thing to do to somebody. She say's What!? You don't want $2500 a week and then give our new grandson $2500 a week for his life. I tried to get her to consider how your life would be with everyone and every relative you know trying to position themselves as the one to get the money. You would hear all the reasons all the hardships everyone has and how they need the money more then the next person. So she says you just announce right away that the grandson gets the money. Done deal everyone shuts up. Sure I said and you just ruined our grandsons life. Worse thing you can do to a young person is give them free money especially enough where they don't have to work. The only way I would do that is if the rules allow you to put the money in a trust fund until he's 40. Interesting conversation. I think she seen my point but it's funny how people can't see the downside to free money. "Fixed fortifications are monuments to mans stupidity" - George S. Patton | ||
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I know people can surprise you but fortunately I only have one family member I think would pull such low class bullshit. He’s a waste of oxygen and knows most of us will shoot him if he sets foot on our properties though so...*shrug* Currently it’d be either be my niece/nephew or the youngest child either has at the time. I’d stipulate that $500 a week minimum be put into savings for the first 20 years and hope they did the right thing. | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
Does anyone actually win? "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
According to the commercials they do. If you can't believe a commercial, who can you believe? ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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Stangosaurus Rex |
Just like the two guys that previously won in "The Running Man" that retired to a tropical island! ___________________________ "I Get It Now" Beth Greene | |||
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Just what the OP was talking about, was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the ad. Rod "Do not approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction." John Deacon, Author I asked myself if I was crazy, and we all said no. | |||
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| Thank you Very little  |
I just spit all my Cadre Cola on the screen!This message has been edited. Last edited by: HRK, | |||
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| Knows too little about too much  |
I would like to see a juried lixting of prior winners. Bet its short. Just selling ads is what they do. RMD TL Davis: “The Second Amendment is special, not because it protects guns, but because its violation signals a government with the intention to oppress its people…” Remember: After the first one, the rest are free. | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
My grandmother used scissors to cut in little pieces the “YOU MAY ALREADY BE A WINNER” letter Publishers Clearing House sent her (and everybody else in the USA), because she was afraid the garbage men would see the envelope in her trash and try to extort the winnings from her. I tried to tell her that: 1. The garbage men don’t have time to read the contents of your garbage can, and 2. The garbage men got that letter, too. I was never able to allay her fear, though. | |||
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| Too soon old, too late smart |
Couldn’t you set up some sort of trust to distribute the $2,500 per week among 25 relatives for as long as a certain person lives? Who wouldn’t want to get $100 every week? | |||
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| Unapologetic Old School Curmudgeon  |
Simple - don't tell anyone you won. Don't weep for the stupid, or you will be crying all day | |||
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Yeeeeeeeeesssssssss! What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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Wait, what? |
I decided long ago that in the unlikely event I ever won a substantial amount of money, we would tell NO ONE. Especially family. I occasionally dabble in the big lottery when the amounts reach stratospheric levels. If I did somehow hit it, I would give all the family money anonymously and claim to have gotten the same, thereby keeping the winner a secret. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
How do you know they were actual garbage men and not undercover IRS/CIA/FBI types looking to ensnare her into some devious plot to help take over the country? You know how sneaky those guys are. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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I guess I don't buy the premise that being born into money makes a person useless. Parents determine the outcome of their kids, not the value of their portfolio. ______________________________ “I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.” ― John Wayne | |||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm.  |
In my opinion? No. There can't be so much money in magazine subscriptions that they can afford those kinds of payouts. | |||
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Fortified with Sleestak |
Blame the media. If it's not sharks, Russians, global warming, West Nile Virus, or "the google", someone is always going through your trash to steal your identity or ripping it out of your mailbox. I have to unfortunately deal with someone who will not use the mailbox for outgoing mail for this reason, and must be home to get the mail when it comes because it can't sit in the box long. I have the heart of a lion.......and a lifetime ban from the Toronto Zoo.- Unknown | |||
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PCH is getting cheap. Used to be 5000 a week with occasional contest jumps to 7000. Before you go making the grandson your alternate, better ask the wife how she’ll feel after you croak and she gets nothing while grandson gets it all. Know how that’d go over at my house! | |||
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| Experienced Slacker |
If you're tired of living and ready to be murdered, then yes, designate your wife. | |||
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| probably a good thing I don't have a cut |
I don't know if I could handle thinking about the person I picked wishing for my death everyday. | |||
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