The Global 50/50 Lottery

Dear 11HourAction Team, This idea, which I hope your people will read, is "The Global 50/50 Lottery". It's an idea that I have been sending all over the Internet, as a possible way to lessen the extreme financial gap between the rich nations and the poor nations. There might be a way to accomplish that, and ALSO fight global warming, by exploiting mankind's infinite greed. We got to use 'economic judo' here people. That is, since human greed may have led to a lot of the economic unfairness and global warming in the world, perhaps only by using human greed can we fix these problems. That is, the USA and United Nations should create the 'Global 50/50 Lottery', the world's first truly international lottery. Presently international lotteries are illegal, for good reason, if you enter into a paying relationship with any of the scam lotteries of this sort, they simply take your credit card payments until your numbers come up, then they say your credit card was overdrawn, and you get nothing. The Nigerians are all over that thing. But the point is, there's already a build-in market niche for an international lottery, it might simply be due now. In this global 50/50 lottery, all of the rich nations' populations can buy chances for this first REAL and HONEST fully-international lottery. Globilization has come to everything else, why not the lottery? The poor nations do not buy any tickets, but if their population engages in the international population census, they are automatically registered to win. The lottery fund is allowed to increment until you got eight billion dollars. First, to avoid any legal snafus with winners refusing to pay taxes, take out half of this sum in taxes and administrative costs BEFOREHAND, and to insure that the administrative costs of this system will always be paid. Believe me, it will be best if you take out the taxes and related costs beforehand. Take the remaining four billion dollars, and divide two billion dollars into two thousand, tax-free, million dollar packets. The other two billion dollars is split into one billion dollar packets. Next, get the king of capitalism, Donald Trump, to pick out one thousand million dollar packets winning lottery numbers in a big ceremony at his casino. That part goes to the gamblers buying the the global 50/50 lottery tickets in the rich countries. In a simlilar ceremony, have the Pope or the Dalai Lama, this job could be alternated between the world's religious leaders, pick out the same thing, only it is given to poor people in the poor nations, who were registered by the international census. Finally, they pick out two one billion dollar winners, one in the rich nations and another in the poor nations. This would be a mostly automated ceremony relying heavily on modern computer hardware. This 'Love-Bombing' of unconditional money, peppering packets of wealth all over the globe, will serve to re-distribute the wealth in a way that will promote good will, international cooperation and unity throughout the world. It will also recharge their local economies, because by and large, the poor nations' people will invest the money in their own areas. Due to a statistical phenomena called reduction to the means, or what statisicians call 'the levelling drift', the wealth will tend to be distributed randomly or evenly around the the world, rather than be concentrated on the richest people buying entire 'books' of these tickets. These 'books' would come an encrypted microchip to enable lotttery stations to electronically scan the books for winners, or do it online on your PC. There is a possibility that this unconditional Godsend of wealth will happen to someone with terrorist inclinations , but that is statistically unlikely, and remember, they are terrorists WHEN THEY HAVE NOTHING. Great personal wealth always changes your priorities greatly. That one million relatives crawling out of the woodwork looking for a piece of your newfound pie. Further, if great global terrorism continues, once this thing gather public support, you could threathen to discontinue the 'Global 50/50 Lottery'. That would create a massive ground swell of grass roots oppostion to terror-related activity, because it would stop this 'Love-Bombing' of poor nations with sudden wealth packets to ANYBODY. We could create a special credit card for the winners, to tap into their funds from a central bank in Switzerland. Please keep in mind that we are spending billions of dollars on lotteries the world over anyway. This might just be an idea that is due now. But a global lottery should benefit everyone in the world, not just the rich nations. This idea has a few logistic problems, but nothing we could not remedy if we tried to. Remember, we live in the age of the Internet; we GOT the communication infra-structure for such a project as this now. OK, what does all this have to with fighting global warming? Well, if we manufactured vast arrays of windmill farms, various ocean-power devices like Pelamis to get electric power from waves or ocean currents, and solar cell panels to install all over the world, the 'free', clean electricity made by these systems that derive juice from wind, sea and sun, would enable us to miniamaze our dependancy on coal-burning electric power plants, that are emitting carbon dioxide and related greenhouse warming gases into the Earth's atmosphere, creating global warming. The reason why we are not doing that right now, is because we need a consistent way, like a global lottery, to PAY for the expensive windmills, etc. that this option requires. Further, the United Nations should create a special fund from the half of this lottery taken out beforehand in taxes and administrative costs, for the specific purpose of paying for the making and installation of these 'free' clean electrical power systems in the world's poorest nations, because the more 'free' clean electricity any nation's economy has, the STRONGER that economy is, with a LOT of permanent jobs made, and it would actually make a dent in global warming. It's a 'Hand Up' option towards economic independance, as opposed to a 'Hand Out' option that never lasts long. That covers it. Please forward this idea thread to the REAL experts in global warming. Best Regards, Techrex