re: With a high powerball jackpot this week, time to crush some dreams...

That's silly. Of all the lottery games, the Powerball is buying a dream - a voluntary tax. For the losers, the return won't be this infinitesimal return on a massive expense, it will be 0% return. For the winners, it won't be 1 win after so many millions of tries - it will be the wildest stroke of luck (and, for most of them, it will not work out nearly as well as they planned).

Just my $0.02 - which I cannot spare because we're playing the Powerball until somebody hits.