People who are winners in ventures fraught with danger seldom quit while they are ahead. In the final analysis, these high rollers are in a league with the tattered masses who stand in lines at supermarkets and convenience stores hoping to make their fortune by way of the lottery. Baiting the hooks are citizens and government officials who legalize an enterprise cruelly designed to make poor people poorer. And so it does. Chasing an illusion, the hopeful put their pension checks and welfare proceeds into the hands of people who know how to spend it on their own agendas.
Spending is their specialty.
There can be no serious argument that this generation of Americans is not the most affluent, pampered, and privileged in all of human history. And yet we are nearer colossal self-destruction than any of our forebears. In grasping for more, our countrymen have lost sight of those elements which, in the end, are indispensable. The general was right on the mark. Actually, he was agreeing with the penmen of Scripture who, at God's bidding, wrote to warn us about the bitter fruit of loving mammon more than what He has instituted for our good.