So a couple of notes on the Powerball Lottery right now.
No one won last night's drawing. It was the largest jackpot prize for them ever. Seems it got up to 949.8 million dollars.
No Winner for $949.8 Million Powerball Jackpot
Crazy, no?
So now? What's the jackpot prize going to be for this Wednesday evening? Glad you asked.
No winning Powerball tickets sold; jackpot hits $1.3 billion
There is an entire likelihood, a strong possibility one person could and would walk away with a 1.3 billion dollar jackpot prize this week, before taxes. Someone who previously didn't have much money.
There are people in poverty---starving, in fact, literally----all over this planet.
We have a lottery with a prize of 1.3 billion dollars up for grabs this week, very possibly for one person to claim. At 2 dollars a throw.
I'm just glad we, as a people, as humanity, as a nation, have our priorities straight so we can make this world work for everyone. I'm glad we figured out all that fairness and equality and justice and common sense, so long ago.
Aren't you?