A better thing happened with this lottery prize

According to the news this morning, as we all likely know by now, three different winning MegaMillions Lottery tickets were sold this week--one in Illinois, one in Maryland and one even in our own next-door-neighbor state of Kansas. Terrific. Excellent. Congratulations to the winners. And this is what should have happened, too, instead of having only one winner of what would have been a huge windfall. Having three winners instead of just one helps many more economies--the individuals who won, of course, the towns and areas they live in and the states they reside in, at least. Added to that, it's far less likely to "screw up" a person if, again, only one person won all that money. Sure, they could still get "screwed up." It's not like this prize, divided by 3 isn't still huge. Hopefully, it just makes it a bit less likely.

As it stands this morning, we are told the winning ticket in Kansas was sold in Northeast Kansas, a bit vaguely, so the person or persons who won can't be very far away from us, can they? Did you see where we Americans spent $1.5 billion on this lottery, this go-round? Wow. That's a lot of tickets. It's too bad even more people couldn't have all divvied up this prize, by my way of thinking. What should happen with lotteries--with a lottery, anyway--is that they should create one where each time there is a drawing, there are as many winners as there are each 1 million dollars. They could just do a live drawing each time. I think it would be exciting for people and "spread the wealth" far more healthily and wisely. It would be better for the people winning, make the likelihood people would win sooner that much greater and make it that much less likely, again, that people would be overwhelmed by the money and mess up their lives. Instead, polls seem to show people like the excitement of these huge jackpots. So it goes. For now, if you're reading this Mr. and/or Mrs. Kansas Megamillions lottery winner--enjoy. (And keep your head on your shoulders and feet on the ground). Link: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/kan-ill-md-tickets-share-lottery-jackpot-120924228.html