When It Was 400 Million

You know what I thought those days? Even if I won ten percent, it would still be HUGE. Even if I won one percent, that would still be shitload of money. (I'm still amused that the iPad's spellcheck doesn't recognize profanity.) 

But here were some thoughts I had on what I could do with the money.

1. Buy luxury health insurance for all my co-workers at the store.

2. Pay for food trucks to come provide low-cost or free lunch to my co-workers at the store.

3. Personally re-finance my friend's Mom's home loan with an awesome (or non-existent rate).

4. Put that friend's sister through college.

5. In fact, those are one percent or ten percent dreams. In the full-blown version, I offer a college education to anyone 25 and under in my neighborhood (which is largely working class). I'd even pay for adults to go back to school, if they were motivated.

6. I'd love to be able to put commercials on television, especially now during the shutdown.

7. I'd like to offer the neighborhood the chance to have their houses fixed up or renovated free of charge.

8. I'd like to set up small programs to show how they could be done - and should be done, as far as I'm concerned - that help train people for jobs and take care of pregnant teens or provide options for a woman considering abortion.

9. I'd like to hire organizers to drive programs that I believe can be done by people power as opposed to federal money. I'd like to shame the Republicans by showing them how it could be done and how they never do it.