We serve Country, the Whole Country, and the Constitution of, not lotteries nor raffles, nor small groups of actual caring citizens fighting for funding!!
Jan. 22, 2012 - Veterans will receive some money from a state raffle held in their honor, but much less than was predicted before extra advertising ate into the raffle's profits.
Lawmakers created the annual game last year and directed proceeds to the Veterans Innovations Program, which hands out small cash grants to help veterans returning home with rent, gas, school and other expenses.
The program otherwise received no new money in the current state budget.
Washington's Lottery expected to raise at least $430,000 for the grants -- even more under some early estimates -- if its $10 tickets sold out. But early ticket sales were lackluster, so the Lottery ramped up advertising. That may have helped sell about 98 percent of tickets and drive nearly $3 million in sales, but it also left just $240,000 for the veterans program, the Lottery now estimates.
"We know there is a great base for a veterans raffle," said Sen. Steve Conway, a Tacoma Democrat who pushed to create the game. He was referring to Washington's former service members, including more than 60,000 who served in Iraq or Afghanistan alone.
"I feel that this will grow," Conway said. "That's my sense of it, that we didn't meet our expectation but certainly we have a good foundation to build on." read more>>>
No Revenues = No Sacrifice = No Support = DeJa-Vu all over again!. Now a decade and counting added to the previous decades of under funding the VA, while the peoples reps Still try and lay blame on the Agency, after rubber stamping wars and costs of and those represented cheer on these wars!
While the wealthy and other investors garner their booty, still, from both and many have the chutz·pa to call themselves more patriotic{?} then others wrapped in those false flags, using false slogans and various cheap symbols of!
USN '67-'71 All Shore GMG3 Vietnam In Country '70-'71
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