Submitted by CaliforniaScreaming on March 3, 2009 - 6:12pm.
I have collected signatures for school funding initiatives in the past and the first thing out of the voters mouth is "What about the lottery?". A lot of people have this false notion that the lottery pays for the school budget. Not just some of it, all of it!! I tell people the lottery was meant to supplement school funding.
They won't listen, they will believe what they want to believe. People don't know the gravity and weight of the numbers of the budget. They see a $100 Million dollar jackpot and have no idea the school education budget is well over $50 Billion This poll is a reflection that people think borrowing from the lottery will somehow destroy school funding. Though I don't support this budget or these initiatives, however I know borrowing from the lottery is not going to destroy education. It is borrowing on future revenues.
Advice to Yes people, they better start a re-education campaign on the purpose of the lottery.
Lottery Borrowing in Trouble
I have collected signatures for school funding initiatives in the past and the first thing out of the voters mouth is "What about the lottery?". A lot of people have this false notion that the lottery pays for the school budget. Not just some of it, all of it!! I tell people the lottery was meant to supplement school funding.
They won't listen, they will believe what they want to believe. People don't know the gravity and weight of the numbers of the budget. They see a $100 Million dollar jackpot and have no idea the school education budget is well over $50 Billion This poll is a reflection that people think borrowing from the lottery will somehow destroy school funding. Though I don't support this budget or these initiatives, however I know borrowing from the lottery is not going to destroy education. It is borrowing on future revenues.
Advice to Yes people, they better start a re-education campaign on the purpose of the lottery.