Selling the Lottery

thadeus · Feb 14, 2007

thadeus said:

Say this lottery sale goes through, and it turns out that the revenue stream provided by the lottery was, in fact, necessary for funding Texas schools. You and I would say privatizing the lottery was a huge mistake.

But let's say that Rick Perry sells the lottery to a good friend of his, and that good friend makes a massive campaign donation to Perry's party (and future presidential bid), and that Perry's kids get high-level jobs with a friend of the friend's billion-dollar company, and so on and so forth - where you and I see a mistake, Perry and the people he's really working for see a total success.

I'm not saying this is the case (though it could be), but pointing out that these 'mistakes' are often not mistakes at all.
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Deckard said:

Gov. Perry's son hired by firm consulting on lottery
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Yep. Looks like Perry's 'mistake' is already under way.

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