Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Shocking Revelation About Big Lottery Winners

I read with astonishment a narrative in my local newspaper this morning. It concerned a couple in their early 30's from Perth, Horse Opera Commonwealth Of Australia who won AUD $793,151.87.

Their bingo dreaming was realized just two old age ago. Lucky people huh?

OK. Nothing too astonishing about that - so far. Reading on I was shocked to learn that this narrative is intelligence now because, despite their monolithic windfall, this couple had never stopped claiming societal security benefits. Avaricious huh?

That social welfare money is meant to be available to disadvantaged people who are in financial difficulty. Essentially it is "survival" money.

But the narrative gets worse, much worse...

This couple spent ALL that money in just seven weeks! Gone. Vanished. Seven weeks! It hardly looks possible. So, what makes that state you?

The first thing that struck me was how utterly irresponsible this brace was. How make you pass $113,307.41 each hebdomad for seven weeks? I have got great trouble comprehending that.

What if this brace had spent just the $93,151.87 having "fun" and set the $700,000 into an interest bearing term sedimentation for three calendar months at 6.00% interest while they got some nice financial advice? At the end of the three calendar months they would have got accumulated another $10,500 to play with (less tax, of course).

So many narratives abound like this - people with no financial accomplishments suddenly happen themselves in ownership of a large heritage or a lottery win and zap! Just like these two, it is gone. How would you have got handled it?

For anybody wanting to learn basic financial accomplishments "The Richest Man in Babylon" by George Second Clason is a great start. Had these people bothered to read such as a book then they would still have got a important ball of that money left. Maybe they would have got even more. As it is they have got nil to demo for it and there is a strong possibility of either jail or monolithic mulcts for defrauding the Government.

It pays to educate yourself.

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