Do you guys remember when different states started to

institute lottery gambling systems that they promised would help to pay

for a lot of our state\\\'s bills and for a lot of our schools programs

and education. The Florida State lottery for example was supposed to

help the Florida educational system and help put extra money back into

the system but instead it gave an excuse to the state to cut spending

on education itself.

I personally think that the lottery system

should be handed over to private sector and allow them to give the same

percentage back to their state. This is a great idea because I have

always thought that the free market could run a business more

efficiently than a large bureaucratic state that has so much red tape

to succeed profit wise.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to

propose a revolutionary concept, that is, he wants a state lottery of

California to be privately owned. Now that the state of California is

on the verge of running out of money it should be more efficient by

cutting its expenses and all sectors. The private sector has always

been more efficient at cost-cutting and profit-making than the state or

federal government has been. Now if this law is passed then you should

see a flurry of governors from smaller states also moving to make this

law. Not only would this give us more profits to use on education will

also cut a percentage of our states budgets. If this law does not pass

then I think there should be more unbiased oversight over the

operations of our state lotteries just to make sure that this money is

going straight to where it\\\'s supposed to go, another words to our

educational system and not into the hands of greedy state bureaucrats.

Over

the years I haven\\\'t seen much monetary support coming from the state

lotteries towards our educational systems so maybe an unbiased citizens

oversight committee could help boost the state lottery\\\'s profits and

get them on track to do exactly what they were created to do for us.

Our educational system has started falling behind as far as production

from our children compared to the other educational systems worldwide

especially the French educational system. I think as Americans we

should put forward steps to start changing the stats by focusing more

on profits spent towards education.

The lottery system was first

introduced by the Italian government many hundreds of years ago and it

has always brought massive profits to the country of Italy. So, if we

plan to run our state lottery anymore efficient manner maybe we should

look to the Italian model to help us through. These are just some

options that I have pointed out that could possibly have some benefit.