LETTERS: SWEEPSTAKES, LOTTERY: BOTH ARE RISKY

To the editor:

Sweepstakes or the lottery, whichever you choose, are both an absurd waste of time. The odds are against that you will win enough to make it worth your while. However, if you can sue a big corporation under some ridiculous exaggeration of the law, you could have a better chance of getting something for nothing.

There really isn't much difference in a sweepstakes or the lottery. They both promise you wealth if you win and advertise to prey on anyone desperate enough to listen.

Has anyone actually been to Lucky Town? Do we need commercials to tell us that there is a lottery? I personally think the lottery commercials should be illegal. It sounds to me that the real winners are the advertisers and the TV stations that run these ads. Maybe they live in Lucky Town.

There is one difference in the sweepstake and the lottery. The difference is that the lottery is government run, and we all know the government would never prey on the desperate or the feeble, right.

CAROL POOLE

Jackson