Gotta love the Student loans...

[MichiganMilitia]

Just an idea, but when I was in high school, I used to play in a little jazz group (drummer, bass, keys, and trombone) and we would play in classy restaurants and coffee shops for a few hours once or twice a week. At the coffeeshops, it was usually just tip money and we'd get about $50 each for an hour and a half of playing, but there were a few upscale restaurants that would pay us a flat rate + tip money and we could usually bring in a few hundred dollars each for 2-3 hours (plus set up time). We had a few real charts, but mostly we just did 12-bar blues type stuff from a fake book with lots of solos and variations of the melody in different keys. We also did 2 weddings that brought us about $400 each for the night + a free bar and good company for the night

[Elhuero]

Ok, here goes: (I'm ducking for cover now)

The government pumped BILLIONS (our tax dollars) into failing banks, why not give the regular folks a break?

Two reasons.

1. Most people don't deserve a bailout

2. Even if you gave them one they'd spend themselves right back into ulcers within a few years. Some even sooner.


working in collections has completely ruined the part of my brain where sympathy is made.


best of luck to you bigbear

[BigBear]

Yes Sirs, I've tried the coffee houses etc... too much going on with the other musicians in town. They've been here longer and thus have the connections. I just wanted to complain for a bit. I'll survive, always do.

Elhuero, I hear you man. You never hear the after stories of people who won the lottery. Why is that? It's because they got themselves in deeper than they were before they won.

What I would do (if I even played, much less won) is pay off all debts, buy a running car, throw the rest in an interest gaining account and keep on living my life like a normal guy and going to work. Forget about it all until retirment. Yes, I might use some to grab a rifle or a trumpet but never going full out and buying a million dollar house with a boat, blah, blah, blah. lol. Anyways, I'll never win cause I don't play.

[MichiganMilitia]

Free handouts never got anyone anywhere. But neither did taxing them to oblivion.

[BigBear]

Rgr that. My dad calls the lottery the "stupid people tax". In ways, it is fitting.

My apologies to anyone who does play the lottery.


Wow, 7 votes for giving up the horns... not sure if I could... so sad. Anyone want to buy a trumpet? lol.

[Batteriesnare]

Wow, 7 votes for giving up the horns... not sure if I could... so sad. Anyone want to buy a trumpet? lol.

Yeah, but the firearms also have the lowest vote....I think your sample market may be a tad biased....

[GreenScoutII]

working in collections has completely ruined the part of my brain where sympathy is made.

Or perhaps it was damaged when you sold your soul? Ok, just kidding about having sold your soul, but you have to realize that as a collections agent you are in the least popular profession in America today. That has to be a tough gig, I don't know if I could do it.

It was a rhetorical question anyway. Personally, I don't see why the government took it upon themselves to use public funds to bail out private corporations and banks in the first place. I do think if they were going to spend taxpayer funds, the taxpayers should benefit directly though.

[Elhuero]

Elhuero, I hear you man. You never hear the after stories of people who won the lottery. Why is that? It's because they got themselves in deeper than they were before they won.

heh I'm glad you understood my post. I was thinking this morning that I could have worded it a little bit better, so's not to make anyone think I didn't have any sympathy for you.

I never play the lotto either, but it's fun to dream sometimes.

as for the poll, well it's a gun board. most are going to choose them over music stuff. probably would be reversed if this was a forum for trumpet players.

I've always regretted selling a gun, but in your case I'd say keep a couple to defend your family and sell the rest. (If you can, being that you have a 'select few' that serve a specific purpose.) You can't go shoot every single day, but you can play time. hell, pick your best/favorite horn and sell the rest.

[Irving]

I never make fun of the lotto because a lot of that money goes to the state, which is 1000 times better than them taking that money through a tax.

[MrPrena]

Depends on which lotto.

Colorado Lottery Lotto ~1:5.6mil
Winnable.

Powerball ~1:192mil
Not really winnable.

If 19.2million people in US plays Powerball, there will be 1 winner per 10 drawing.
They draw 104times per year.

There will be ~10 Powerball winner per year @ 19.2mil participant.

THAT IS LESS THAN ENTIRE US POPULATION OF BILLIONARE!