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Aviation Pro

(12,150 posts)
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 03:58 PM Aug 2012

Great, the newest lottery multi-millionaire....

...is a frigging wingnut. Normally, I just say congratulations and move on, but when you read his comments you'll see he's cut from the Tea Gargler cloth.

$337 million Powerball winner plans to keep it real

Donald Lawson intends to do the typical lottery-winner stuff: Retire, take care of his family, travel, get a new place to live.

But the 44-year-old Michigan man insists his $337 million Powerball prize – the third-largest in Powerball history, and seventh-largest jackpot in U.S. history – won’t change him.

“I’m a millionaire now, but I’ll still go to McDonald’s,” Lawson told reporters Friday at the Michigan Lottery headquarters in Lansing, where he came forward to collect on the August 15 drawing. “I don’t like filet mignon or lobster. I like the simple life, and that’s what I want to continue to do.”

--snip--

He said he plans to travel a lot, but for now, he’s going to “go somewhere safe and think about (what to do) and go from there.”

“This money won’t last forever unless I use it right and budget it right. It’s not a lot, $337 million,” he joked, drawing laughter, before addressing the issue of taxes. “You all think it’s tremendous amount, but I’m kind of pissed at Uncle Sam … you know?”

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/31/337-million-powerball-winner-plans-to-keep-it-real/?hpt=hp_t3

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Care Acutely

(1,370 posts)
1. Ungrateful bastard can give it to me, since it's "not that much"
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 04:00 PM
Aug 2012

that way he can move on with his simple life.

Aviation Pro

(12,150 posts)
3. That's why I normally just say 'congratulations'....
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 04:01 PM
Aug 2012

...I'm sure he felt he earned it and yes he is an ungrateful douche.

Bet you his ex is lining up the lawyers now.

Hong Kong Cavalier

(4,572 posts)
5. He will be declaring bankruptcy in two years, I bet.
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 04:02 PM
Aug 2012

He thinks he won't change. He will. All he has to do is make his first big purchase, and he won't be able to stop.

"It's not a lot, $337 million"

 

glacierbay

(2,477 posts)
8. Geeeeez
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 04:12 PM
Aug 2012

why can't I ever win anything like that? The only thing I ever won was an all expenses paid trip back in 68.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
10. If I won that kind of cash I'd set up a foundation
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 04:17 PM
Aug 2012

to fund schools for Asperger's kids, animal rescue shelters, give a nice chunk to Planned Parenthood and NARAL, cultural institutions like orchestras and museums, fund liberal/left causes and use the remaining $25-30 million to commute between Provence and Vung Tao, Vietnam, depending on the season, for the rest of my born days. And I sure as hell wouldn't be eating Mickey D's.

What an asshat.

xchrom

(108,903 posts)
12. He won a State sponsored gambling prize
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 04:56 PM
Aug 2012

And what he comes up with is that he's pissed at the Fed. Gov?!?

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