Or more drooling for the Lone Star Card abuser? The Texas Lottery has devised another scratch off game to pull money out of people that don’t have it.

Now, Texas Lottery officials are upping the ante on instant miracles to $50.

That’s right, a $50 dollar scratch off.

The $50 game comes with a 63 percent chance of losing.

Those odds won’t deter Mike Swain, 44, a driver for a moving company who picked up $4 worth of scratch-offs in East Austin this week.

“I’ll try it. I definitely could try it once. Sometimes I have $50 extra,” he said.

Swain, who estimates taking home between $1,800 and $2,000 a month, said he plays scratch-off games daily, plopping down $4 to $6 at a time.

Let’s see. Take home of $2,000 a month. $4 a day out the window = $80 month using only working days and a 20 working day month. $80/$2,000 = 4% of Mr. Swain’s income and that is the minimum. $6 a day in a 30 day month = 9% of his income. And we gripe about property taxes?

Or, you could be like the janitor that works two jobs to buy his tickets.

William Scott, 64, a custodian in Austin who works two jobs and said he often spends $120 a day on lottery games, is eager to try his luck on the $50 game. “I play all of them.”

Methinks we all need to find janitors jobs that pay enough to throw away $120 a day.

(Sheryl Crow’s Library)