Miracles Will Never Cease!!

Congrats to your state, Rodney...a lottery will bring additional revenue to your state, it helps a lot here in Florida. I normally only buy scratch off tickets...and not very often...because the casino on the Seminole Reservation usually takes care of our gambling itch.

Congratulations on getting the lottery where you are. I have done the lottery every day for around 10yrs (I think) since it started, and I use the same numbers as from day one. It generates a lot of money for good causes here, and has saw a lot of great things being opened for the young people. They goverment gets its fair share from it to though. I have won a lot on it (usually small amounts) but it is exciting to do. My husband got five numbers some years ago too. It paid for a great holiday. I hope you enjoy this lottery. I hope it helps the good need causes too. Enjoy it, and good luck with those numbers.

Arkansas finally got smart. Got to love the individuals from the Arkansas family council claiming this would allow evil casinos. All amendment 3 created was a lottery that like you said is in every state that surrounds us. Really I do not care if amendment 3 does create casinos. In Hot Spring you can go and bet on horse. In West Memphis you can bet on greyhounds. So what would be the big deal if Hot Springs, Texarkana, West Memphis, and or a city up in Northwest Arkansas had a casino. Think of the possibilities of that, people from Texas, Tennessee, and Missouri could come to our state and spend their money while our money stays in our state.

We just had one of these votes, on a new casino being put just about 20 minutes from my home. Where this casino was being put was very important to one small town that is about 5 miles from where it was being built. The town of Wilmington, has 12,000 population. A company named DHL is shutting down and most of the population in Wilminton works there. This will totally make Wilmington a ghost town. The people has spent their whole life working there, now it is gone. This casino would of brought 10,000 new jobs to the area, but because of a few church groups this casino was turned down in the election. I say church groups because they was the ones complaining about it. It didn't matter that these people could get jobs there and not lose their homes and could feed their kids. There are casinos like you say in every state around us, me and a friend went to one in Indiana and every car in the parking lot had Ohio tags, that is where our money goes out to another state, but rather than keep the money in Ohio, and give these people jobs they will now complain that they are more on the welfare rolls. Some groups and people need to keep their nose out of some things, if they don't like to gamble then don't go there. The church groups must of been concerned that some of their donations would get spent at the casinos. I think it would of been great for this to be put where it was, out in the country right on the interstate, not in anyone's back yard, now these people and i have a friend that lives there is being told that their jobs will end when DHL closes. That includes the fast food resturants as well as others, as a man came to fix my daughter's cable the other day and he was a police officer that said he was from the area and that he had to come here to the local cable company to hire on because he was told their jobs are gone now that the casino did not pass. Like I said if you don't like the gambling don't go but why not give these people a chance for another job when this company closes. Now I am waiting for the crap that too many more on welfare, maybe if they had kept their noses out of it they would of had jobs. While our money is still going out to all four sides of the state to where there is other casinos.

Congrats,on your state to finally enter the 21st century and vote in some form of gambling...My home state Louisiana took almost forever to vote for gambling also,well at least you all came to your sense to stop letting other states take your gambling dollars...

I agree that people will find a way to gamble one way or the other. In Mass, revenues from the state lottery have been funding community improvements and infrastructure repair for a few decades. If people are going to gamble anyway, I'd as soon see the revenues go to social and infrastructure improvements as see them lining the pockets of gangsters and criminals.