Lotteries- THINK

Lotteries may be an economic lure, due to the amount of revenue made each year, but for your social life and morals, it can be a disaster. Lotteries in an area may give rise to another problem Compulsive Gambling. I believe buying lottery tickets, may give you a high, making you feel good, on the meagre chances that you would actually win. If you did, you would probably put that money you won back into the lottery, thinking that your lucky streak will not end. It probably did already end. Saw any black cats lately? So the money would just disappear. Not through some ghostly means but probably through your own hands at the lottery. You would want to gamble more to recoup your losses. So you end up in a lose situation. Your chances are probably 1 in 13 million. Why take the chance. Asking my dad, i have decided not to quote him entirely. He always has some way of insulting anybody or maybe blaming himself. I don't want any government getting me into trouble for this. So he said, " why open lotteries and tear apart the morals of singaporeans, causing trouble in their families and financial problems, when people waste their money buying slips of papers which have numbers and this small bit of hope under the illusion that they may be making a big amount of money?" So he believes that gambling has not very good prospects for anyone, an therefore does not gamble. Its true, i have not seen him gambling anywhere, and when he does have to play mahjong, he plays with no stakes. (according to my mom, mahjong improves your memory.) The NPCG advertistment also brings up a point. Im against lotteries as they may give rise to the problem of compulsive gambling, and as in the advertistment, they give a lot of excuses to gamble. They would say that is their last try, but how many last tries do you think they may have done. Once you gamble, it is difficult to stop as you think your next try will be lucky, and just waste your money. So to quote the advertistment,"Often the people who really suffer from problem gambling aren't the gamblers." those would be the family members. I still dont believe in easy money as that is easy come, easy go. The money that is made would be gone just as easily. Dont start. So that is why i am against lotteries.

I made a cute little song for it sung as twinkle twinkle little star. More about slot machines though

Give me money, shooting star

Give me money, shooting star,
Instead I wished upon a bar
If three met, little win
Never big, it was a sin
Wasted money, shooting star,
how I wish I did not start.

Wei Ron