I hate this commercial. I know, I know that is not very enlightening, but that was and remains my reaction to this commercial. I understand that we as a nation as a economic community must not give in to the fear mongers and doomsayers that continue to push down whatever minuscule economic recovery we could muster. But to make light of a devastating situation in such a cavalier and morally ambivalent manner is beyond insensitive.
It truly irks me that an event which has so dramatically impacted the lives of so many people, so painfully, can be reduced to a 30-second spot in support of the lottery, a chance to give away what little money may remain in their ravaged saving accounts, for nothing concrete, only a chance that most likely is as reliable as wall street fund managers. It seems in extraordinarily poor taste to suggest (even tangentially) that anyone who has lost their pension, as a result of corporate crime shouldn’t be to worried — they still have a chance of winning the “Jumbo Bucks.”
The correlation between poverty, desperation, and gambling addiction is pretty well known and to use a potential cause of that desperation as a way to sell lottery tickets seems so very wrong.
The insult added to the injury has to be the complete calm and acceptance of corporate malfeasance from the working class victim, it is in itself criminal. Where is the moral outrage — do you have any left, or have we as a nation run dry?
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