American Math
David Letterman: always funny, even when he’s not. (He’ll take a bombed joke and continually throw it right back at the audience all night until it’s funny.) One of my favorite Letterman Observations: the Lottery is like a special tax for people who suck at math.
Sometimes, even people who are clearly bad at math walk away with a million bucks in lottery winnings. Recently, Leroy Fick won a decent chunk of change. He did the right thing and informed the government that as he’s now a millionaire, he probably won’t need to continue collecting his share of Food Stamps. The Powers That Be got right back to him and told him that having a million smackers of lottery winnings doesn’t count as income, and he therefore is still fully eligible to receive his food stamp allotment. Sweet!
Ah, America. One could argue that he paid a huge amount of taxes on the winnings, and has certainly contributed to some governmental cash pile or other and can justify his continual receipt of food stamps. One could also argue, however, that American math isn’t so hot, what with the incessant playing of the lottery by our citizens and the wacky rules that allow government money to flow in questionable directions. It just makes me want to let people I pass on the street in on the mathematical secrets I know.
Posted by Alexa Harrington
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