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Next estimated jackpot is $1,000,000,000 (Original Post)
jpak
Oct 2018
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malaise
(269,212 posts)1. I'd love a million or two
but I would not join those lines for a billion. What would we do with so much money?
Nah - the vultures would befall around us.
Glamrock
(11,803 posts)2. Shit mama
You win you keep a few mill. I'll be happy to take the rest off your hands! Just think of the good you could do. Funding inner city schools, starting factory co-ops, funding planned parenthood. Ya gotta look beyond the Maseratti's. Oh yeah, I'd definitely treat myself. But the lives you could touch! Can you imagine?
I get you but We couldn't handle the vultures at our age.
Glamrock
(11,803 posts)6. Then I'm you're man!
malaise
(269,212 posts)9. Bwaaaaaah
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)4. Think about it from state perspective
Cash payout of 500m. Iowa has a 9% rate. $45m will be noticed in our budget.
Vinca
(50,318 posts)7. Wouldn't it be great? I wouldn't have to have the repairman come to fix my stove
next week . . . for the THIRD time (Whirlpool touch pads suck). I'd just throw it out and buy a restaurant!
ornotna
(10,807 posts)8. 1.6 Billion
Yes, that much.