[ WP ] Write up a new conspiracy theory , and cite as much 'proof ' as you can find .

Hah! You want a conspiracy? This is right up my alley, no one listens to me, I've got proof, too. 
 
 Now, I warn you, this may get a little confusing, I have a hard time summing up my thoughts. I've overheard people describing me as -- Off. Whatever that means. I say, open your eyes people! 
 
 We all work hard to earn a living, right? What if I told you someone has been sticking their hands in your pockets for years? Decades! Indescribable amounts of money, sucked right out of the economy. Right under our nose -- not really -- right in front of our eyes. How, you ask? Imagine this, just you and your wife, or husband, you know what I mean. Sitting there on a Sunday Night, you're shuffling through a few of those waxy pieces of paper. The first number pops up, it's a 16, your brothers birthday, but you forgot about him this week. Off to a poor start, as always, week after week. Not your fault, you're playing 195,000,000:1 odds! 
 
 Hold on let me get a glass of water, I'm getting worked up. 
 
 Ok, the next morning though, 2 winners! They sold 400,000,000 tickets? In a week? 400,000,000 little pieces of waxy paper floating around? That's 26,000 per ticket location. 3,500 a day per location?? 
 
 Ok, stay with me, I'm skeptical by nature, just stay with me though. Powerball, started in 1988, well it was known as Lotto-America until the early 90's but it was essentially the same thing. 25 years ago we all started picking numbers, watching jackpots grow into the Billions. The lottery can turn you into one of the richest 250 people in the world! Well, hold on, it could, if it existed. Yes I know, scratch offs are real, but those are small denominations that trick you into thinking the larger ones pay out. I'm talking about the JACK-POTS though. Where are they?! 
 
 25 years of Powerball. 1 drawing a week for 25 years. That's 56 Billions Dollars! 1,300 lottery made millionaires! and that's just from Powerball. 44 states have their own individual lotteries which `` pay out'' between 100,000 and 5,000,000. New York alone has had it's own lottery going for 35 years, with 350 `` made millionairs'' ( adjusting for inflation, of course ). 
 
 So where are they? There should be 4,000 millionaires living among-st us. They could just blend right in, right? Take their money, buy a house and live a normal life right?? Eh, I do n't buy it. The Lottery likes to pat itself on the back. Releasing figures for how much has gone to schools, help impoverished neighborhoods, etc. So, if there was ever a winner walking around with 50 million, helping the needy, paying tuition for aspiring lower class students, and doing other charitable things the Lottery would flaunt this. `` Hey, look our winners do amazing things!''... ahh, of course they ca n't release who wins. That would put them at risk, right? Well, 13 of the 44 states that have the Lottery have laws stating the state must release their identity. Try to find a name though, I dare you. There are feel good stories out there for sure. They are made up though. 27 year old Greg-Whoever was a Postal Worker, now that he's filthy rich he wants to just `` live a normal life'' the 35 million dollars is `` just icing on the cake''. I assure you, those would not be the real words of real winners. 
 
 80 % of lottery winners end up losing it all! How many times has a co-worker told you that. It's engrained in us. Just another lie. 
 
 There are no winners. It's all a facade. People like to call it a tax, or that you're gambling. So many justifications given to us. You can follow tax money. You ca n't follow money that you did n't even know was stolen though! 
 
 None of us expect to win, we have never met a winner, we have never seen a 100 million dollar winner changing lives in a nearby city, the States do n't have to release data, it's the perfect crime. Selling us hope. But that hope is just a big `` fuck-you''. 
 
 
 
 
 
 

