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Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009 | 12:05 p.m.
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is planning to visit Nevada in the spring, his first trip since becoming president.
Details remain few, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said today that the president had accepted his invitation to return to the state.
Obama visited Nevada 20 times while campaigning, winning the state by a double-digit margin.
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Too late Mr. President. You labeled Wells Fargo's trip here as unjustified and now more companies are cancelling. No one wants to risk criticism from their shareholders or unions. How can Macy's come here after laying off workers. How can any company justify a trip the President called immoral. Now our own harry Reid is justifying the remarks on the Senate floor. The President didn't mean what he said. I thought "just words" was something he understood. read about harry in the senate on this.
http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/02/...
Hey Harry and Mr. President. at the request of the people of the great State of Nevada please stay in Washington and keep Harry Reid there with you. We wouldn't want you to visit the state you just threw under the bus.
WHY WHY WHY do you keep Harry Reid elected???
Neiman, you are one thick person. Since you keep repeating these pathetic lies, I'll cut and paste a response I already gave to you.
It's not a sin to come to Vegas, even if you are a corporation. Now I'll spell it out slowly for you, because you keep bleeting on about this non-sequitur point:
Wells Fargo was in trouble.
They failed to turn a profit, and instead lost about 2 BILLION dollars.
They wanted an annual convention to congratulate each other for a good year.
They didn't have a good year (see earlier point).
Now here's the rub...
They got GOVERNMENT money (ie OUR money).
They want to spend that money (reminder: it is OUR money)by going to Vegas.
Instead of staying at more reasonably priced accommodations, they decided to stay at the Wynn and Encore.
Wynn and Encore are the two PRICIEST hotels on the Strip.
Now what part of all that makes sense neiman? Really I'll wait for the response of how the is financially responsible, especially with government money.
My spin is that these morons are at the core the reason why we are at where we are at. The Titanic is sinking and these people want to pay the band to keep playing on. How about get the band to start bailing water out with the rest of the people, or at least man the life rafts or something.
So in sum, if you are going to be utterly hypocritical and condemn the stimulus as excessive pork spending, but laud these dinguses for wanting to blow money out here for no good reason, at least admit it. That or change your name to cognitive dissonance.
And PISSED, in Nevada there's no law or regulation allowing the recall of an elected federal official. We picked him; he's our guy until 2010. Deal with it.
lasvegasbk,
Speak for yourself, you don't speak for me or the people of Nevada.
No one threw Nevada under the bus. Read what was said and try to apply a little common sense.
This is a free country, you are more then welcome to voice your opinion but don't try speaking for anyone else, you don't have that right.
Oh I get it, when Obama uses federal funds to come to Nevada it's OK. LMAO
Harry and Obama will make quite a team when they drive all business out of Nevada.
Obama doesn't want any company receiving bail-out money to come to Nevada, but I am sure it's OK for any company that receives stimulus money to come to Nevada. Right??!!
This is the dolt that trashed bankers for doing the same thing only they had the sense to cancel. this moronic idiot won't. Ever read THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES??????