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twitterNevada’s jobless rate second in nation after Michigan
Associated Press File
Only Michigan, which has been hit hard by losses in the auto industry, has a higher rate of unemployment than Nevada.
Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 | 9:05 a.m.
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CARSON CITY – For the second consecutive month, Nevada placed second in the nation for its unemployment rate, trailing only Michigan.
The U.S. Department of Labor said today Nevada’s rate of 13.3 percent was second to Michigan’s 15.3 percent in September.
The state reported Tuesday there were 190,700 workers who were jobless in September. And the 13.3 percent is a record for the state.
The labor department said the national rate was 9.8 percent. Rhode Island posted a 13 percent jobless rate and California reported a 12.2 percent unemployment rate. Lowest in the nation was South Dakota at 4.8 percent.
A year ago in September, Nevada’s rate was 7.3 percent.
William Anderson, chief economist for the state Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, says the construction industry has been hit the hardest in Nevada in the downturn of the economy.
The gaming and hotel business added 77,300 jobs during the 10-year period ending in 2007. But in the last two years 30,000 of those jobs have been eliminated.
“The much-anticipated opening of the CityCenter project in Las Vegas should help ease job losses in the months ahead, but the industry as a whole, the negatives continue to outweigh the positives,” Anderson said.
The labor department said Nevada’s unemployment rate in 2007 was 4.7 percent. That was the 35th highest in the nation. The national average that year was 4.6 percent.
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Wow, this is a true shock that the jobless rate is so bad in Sin City, my wife and I fly to Las Vegas twice a year once in January and once on the summer for a fun getaway, we always fly on Allegiant Air from San Luis Obispo where we live. Allegiant tells me that there business is great, never better, don't understand how that can be true if business is so bad in Las Vegas.
Rick Schey- San Luis Obispo, Ca.
I suppose that the hiring at City Center is net increase in jobs, but that doesn't mean there is an increase in visitors to LV. The opening of city Center merely distributes the same overall gaming dollars over more casinos.
Yeah but Michigan has water.
Obama jobs?
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce found it necessary to start an ad campaign to promote Free Enterprise believed in danger noting: Obama Government is drowning business in taxes, government regulations and controls that will inhibit economic growth and jobs for years to come. Access article at Washington Times: A Bumpy Ride For Business
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009...
That's what happens when you put all of your eggs in one basket. I can't understand how locals are surprised. We need a more diverse economy, in my opinion.
I can't believe we're still number 2.
LET ME BE CLEAR, we just have to work harder to become number 1.
I wonder what the fabulous unions are doing about working to retrain their members or finding them work in other states...? Not all states are depressed - Oklahoma is booming and plenty of jobs..go on www.money.CNN.com and there is a great article about cities where start-up companies are booming and a work force that is growing..
Let me give a big thank you to Senator Horseface and Speaker Buckfee, along with all the other libs in the legislature who voted to double the state payroll tax. Smart move gang! You should all be indicted for Felony Stupid.
and to think the goverment make it so hard for foreign investors to open businesses in las vegas offering employement
Wait a minute, this cannot be true because Harry Reid says it isn't true. He says the stimulus is working. Come on Las Vegas Sun, if Harry says the stimulus is working, then you must have gotten your facts wrong.
Shuttle
Not everyone in las vegas works in the casino industry, but the casino workers are the majority of those unemployed who got shafted by all the penthouse suits that call the shots. I know that people have been laid off from NDOT, the Clark County Courthouse and other NON casino employers. Yes, it is hard to believe but there ARE other non-gaming employers here in Vegas and obviously not enough.
retiredyoungster
I just read this week that the area where I moved back to in Illinois is one of the top places in the country where the recession is starting to ease up. Must be so since I have gotten more job interviews set up in just the two weeks I've been back then I had in 4 months in Vegas!!!
a more diverse economic base would help but it just doesn't look like anyone's knocking on the door right now. the water issue is a big concern. real estate values continue to decline. it's too bad that vegas has been (over)developed to support a population that it probably won't have until about 2025.
all they have to do to update the article is change the date on the top; this is old news and no one should be surprised about the results. people are blaming obama/ reid but not the jerks who started the ball rolling. if you voted for bush/cheney, blame yourselves for the fix you are in. you deserve nothing better.
Yes Dipstick we can blame Bush Cheney ... and we can blame Obama Reid ... But we can also blame Dipstick Birdie because they are the sheep who buy the garbage that the 2 major political parties spiel to the fools like yourselves and then go to the polls and re-elect the people that got us where we are today ... So remember the Zigsters saying ...
When you are pointing your finger of blame at some one else you are pointing 3 fingers back at yourself!
Bye Bye Harry, Bye Bye Jim...Your careers of destroying our state are soon going to end Voters UNITE!!!
Just remember we paid the salary and benefit increase for union state and local workers.
We did not need to use that stimulus money to create new jobs.
That $1.2 billion Nevada tax increase (room taxes) sure helps all those unemployeed casino workers.
I know you are all looking for reasons why things are so bad, but it really is quit simple - for the last 2 decades the baby boomers from California have put the food on your table.
They are not coming back! They have no money and even if they did they have outgrown Vegas.
Your only hope is to go after the next generation of suckers.
Can you imagine what could be accomplished if the unemployed were asked to "volunteer" their time in exchange for unemployment benefits they already receive. Seems like 190,000 people could pick up every peice of garbage in the entire state in about a week. Why not start a jobs program? If I was unemployed I'd love to have a place to go every day to do something worthwhile. Every day you spend volunteering, you get a weeks unemployment.
Det Munch,
Wondered where you got off to. Glad to hear you landed somewhere with positives. I am a native Las Vegan transplanted to AZ. Lots a good ol' boy attitude down here too. Now if a superintendents job comes along.....
The managment that I have experienced here in my working life is the worst in the country.
Everybody....
We're number #2
We're number #2
We're number #2
We're number #2
shuttle, the "vegas" you come to visit is very different from the local "las vegas".
city center MIGHT be an increase in jobs in terms of raw numbers, but as far as the local economy, i think it's a "break even" because the higher paid construction workers have no jobs now that it's finished.
too many people in america are unemployed. 3,000 jobs lost just today at sun microsystems...those are GOOD paying jobs.
yep, i can't wait to buy a condo at city center!
adam: great idea but the ACLU would be on you like stink on sh*t. Entitlements and the entitlement mentality have killed this great land.
It's time to bring back prostition.......
So is anyone left in Vegas who doesn't want public option health insurance. Remember, the job you lose could be your own. Look into COBRA. It's aptly named.
Vegas WILL come back, and soon. You sell fun and hope - both are in high demand by fellow humans.
Hang in there. Too bad you can't play BlackJack eXtreme. It's a prosperity machine.
laniac.......JUST HAVE TO SAY YOU MADE THE BEST POST ON HERE TODAY. SURE MADE ME AND OTHERS LAUGH.
I am truly sorry we are in this horrible mess.
Thank all the LOSER politico types that took big-time campaign dough from the jerks (the nice word) that pull the strings behind the scenes on all this misery.
__
HERE'S AN UPDATE ON HR. 3548 (Unemployment Benefits Relief) DIRECT FROM CHI-MAN'S HOMESTATE:
"....Republicans are hoping to attach a number of amendments related to ACORN and immigration -- provisions that have delayed floor action on the UI bill indefinitely, according to the offices of both Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
The Republican amendments include at least two provisions related to ACORN; one related to the E-Verify program; one to pay for the UI benefits with unspent stimulus money; and one providing tax relief...."
From "Progress Illinois"
http://progressillinois.com/2009/10/21/d...
Mr. Reid hasn't said Boo to us on this, but he's named in the above article.
Percentage points aren't important here, people are.
The prophet has a new revelation that would make Las Vegas' unemployment under 7%:
1) Legalize prostitution, Amesterdam style, and make this a real "sin city", not a fake one.
2) Offer hotels an incentive to drop their room rates. Allow them to operate "room tax free" if they sell out all their rooms. In order to do that, they'll have to drastically lower their rates. However, that would attract more people to LV and the avg person drops a few hundred in town. What sense does it make to have thousands of empty $200 rooms?
3) Legalize pot in Las Vegas, Amsterdam style, but only in certain bars in a red light district. That would attract a lot of people as well.
4) Allow businesses to move to Las Vegas tax free for 3 years to let them get established. Even though the state won't make any business taxes, it will make taxes from the payrolls and the new workers spending money in the community.
5) Take possession of all the bank owned commercial real estate and gift it to new businesses. Let new business owners get 1 free year of rent when they sign a 5 year lease. That would also force a lot of money on the sideline to enter the playing field.
In other words, think outside the box before you city becomes a ghost town!
High school counselors should be telling students that it is STUPID to borrow money to go to college. In four years there won't be any jobs but there will be collection agencies going after student loan debt. Do you want fries with that?--and when you get home you've got 5 calls from Sallie Mae. Read this latest article about how college destroyed somebody's life:
http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/10/...
what happend to the jobs us americans dont want now?
Good ole Harry and clan are doing well and are succeeding with their goal, unemployed and a nation of welfare. Higher unemployment equates to more welfare payments being made which creates the need for people to become codependent upon government. If they're not removed from office, America will become a cesspool nation of democrats and their lazy followers.
The stimulus is working, $785 billion passed; $750 billion is social welfare programs. They did save and create jobs, welfare jobs.
That's what happens when you have a substandard education system and rely on one industry full of uneducated, unskilled workers. Take a peek at Detroit to see what's coming if this city doesn't decide to put some serious effort into growing and attracting more intelligent people.
Oh, yeah, but oops! Las Vegas blew it when it had the money to put into education for a couple of decades, but didn't. So maybe it'll make #50 this year in education in those rankings where it always places #49.
sergio
With all due respect, real people LIVE in Las Vegas. People with familes, church going people, law abiding people who want a nice life and a nice place to raise those families. WHY WOULD THE CITY AND STATE TAKE DOWN LAS VEGAS FURTHER INTO THE SEWER SYSTEM BY LEGALIZING ALL YOU LIST??? Legalizing prostitution and dope is NOT going to want businesses to come running to Nevada to operate! Use your head. It WILL become a ghost town if all that Vegas has to offer is sex and drugs. It will always have that "party city" mentality attached to it. When I me ntion to people I came back home after being in Vegas all those years - their first question was "Why? Isn't that a big party city where everyone just parties all day and all night?" They are totally disappointed when I tell them it is like any other city in the U.S. right now hurting because of the recession, even more so. I went on to say locals cannot afford to party or go to the Strip. So for Middle America - that is the general attitude about Vegas - one big party city. I firmly do not believe the people raising familes there want that kind of label always attached. It's time for Las Vegas to become a legit city with more to offer than all teh craziness.
Legalizing prostitution and marijuana would be the best thing the State and County could ever do. We as taxpayers spend too much money enforcing laws and housing those convicted of these two crimes. We would save billions and we would generate a good tax base so help us out of the depression we're in.
Prostitution is a moral choice and it was legal at one time. The Moral cops opted to make this illegal without any regards to taxpayer costs. If a person wants to charge for adult to adult fun then that should be their choice, after all, marriage is no different it just comes with a lifetime of spousal support should this arrangement not work.
Marijuana is less evil than alcohol, you don't hear of that many people driving under the influence of marijuana and killing people or hit and runs.
try attracting big companies to locate to vegas after prostitution and pot is legalized. but if we just want to remain a one trick pony it's actually kind of a good idea.
Det_Munch,
I don't use drugs, drink, or gamble. I don't pay for sex either. I based those thoughts on the following realities:
1) Vegas brands itself "sin city" yet like you said is mostly G-PG family city. Europeans come hear and laugh at us behind our banks. They see it's a rip-off, false advertising. What makes Vegas money is gaming, like it or not, we are a one trick pony and we will always be a gaming-resort destination.
2) Part of the problem is that we have too many people living here, families, that the one trick pony economy can't sustain now that construction has become all but extinct. So what if they move! They'd be replaced by single men, younger kids if we switched over to a European type gaming establishment.
Like it or not, businesses are NOT going to come to Las Vegas because our core workers are mostly Service industry people sir, not high tech, not highly educated with degrees. I based my opinion on facts Sir, not hope. You can hope all you want that businesses home here, but the only business that is going to increase is law enforcement and corrections jobs because the out of work populace will turn to crime if they have to to put bread on their table or even to scrounge enough money to move somewhere else. Is that what you want? I'd hope not. My suggestions revealed what could be done ASAP to attract more people to the valley who will drop money. Families drop money at Disneyland Sir, not Casino's, maybe the families should move there.
The fact is that prostitution is legal 30 minutes outside of town. The fact is that you can't go anywhere near the Strip without seeing a billboard for prostitutes (call girls). The fact is all Casino's are full of illegal hookers who keep the $1000 they make every day and put it in their pockets without paying the piper his share. Oh, forgot,they have to pay the pimp. My plan would make Las Vegas the entity that takes a cut out of their services, not a pimp. That would put pimps and most drug dealers out of business, wouldn't that be a good thing? Wouldn't it be better is the partakers in those industries go to a downtown zone where they could partake and fill the cities coffers with money, money that could save this dying city?
I;m thinking of opening a new off-strip casino called 'Sal's Bordello" featuring 'Vinnie's Chicago-styled eats'. What do you think? Seriously, hookers can be had anywhere in the country so legalization of prostitution - although philosophically I would be in favor of it - will not make up for the loss of visitors due to the recession. A long-range plan of economic diversity should be the goal. They need to retool UNLV so that education is provided in the new technology - especially alternative energy. Then they can draw start-ups in this area by providing incentives to start-up or relocate. The incentives can include a more favorable consideration for local state contracts.
Nevada will never completely recover from this mess. Bigger and better casinos are opening in backyards across the country. Why travel when you can stay at home most of the year. Even if tourists decide to come back here, the prices will never appeal to them and the "experience" isn't what it used to be.
Even rats know when to abandon a sinking ship...
BTW,
My view of prostitution changed after I bought a house and opened a business in Costa Rica as a "escape route" if and when the US goes full blown socialist and a prison country such as China and Russia. The business I own has a bar that is frequented by many young beautiful Tica prostitutes. Let me tell you, the're good for business! There are a few very cute ones that bring in a lot of business and "regulars" to my establishment there, mostly Americans on vacation or expats living there. I don't make money from the girls, the government make some money however and the doctors make money from them because they're required to get weekly blood work and other tests. They have to carry a card that the johns can ask to see to make sure they're current with their medical tests. Without that card, they can't enter our establishment if they want to work. It shows they're legal.
I hear they also tests the girls a lot in Pahrump to make sure they're "safe". I've head that no girl has ever given a client aids or hepatitis or herpes, etc in our legal houses of ill repute. Think that's true, not 100% sure. Weekly testing and only clean girls working "the trade" vs no testing and dozens of AIDS infected girls working our Casino's as things now stand. Girls that are not making the city one cent! Which is better?
Reality is that Vegas needs to do something NOW, not in 4 years, not in 10 years, NOW! Every month, tourism will decrease moving forward as our unemployment continues to rise. Why? Who wants to go to a place like Detroit or Las Vegas with high unemployment on vacation? The odds of being ripped off, VERY HIGH! If not by the out of work locals, by the businesses that have to keep all of the money being gambled to cover their overhead. People are not stupid, they know what's up.
Trying to attract high tech industry or any industry is a future thing. It takes years to train people. What we have now is what we have, a service industry work force. PERIOD! Deal with it Goodman, or you'll find the Prophet getting into politics and taking your job next election!
I predict that we'll be number one shortly after Reid and the Dems increase the federal debt to 13 trillion. Bend over and kiss your financial arse goodbye.
Sergio, you truly are prophetic. Viva Costa Rica!
Costa Rica Rocks! I feel more free there than in Las Vegas. I'm betting a lot more Americans move there after Obama socializes America beyond repair. He's a communist Marxist and doesn't hide it based on his inner circle.
Look at what happened to Cuba. True, black people where being held down under the former rulers, they weren't allowed to own land or hold office. Now, everyone has a college education and free health care in Cuba! Viva la revolucion! Right? WRONG! Doctors don't make any money, they're bought and owned by the state. They might live in a little bit nicer home, but they still can't own a car, buy nice things, or eat well. Communism = EVERYONE IS POOR (except Castro, Obama and the elites) and everyone is owned by the government. Each block has a community activist in charge of making sure no one makes any disparaging remarks about Castro or gets out of line. If so, off to prison they go without any due process. "Well at least they don't have a lot of crime" Shaw? I just read that in China, organized crime is a huge problem! Once the US becomes communist, the street thugs will run cities, can't find the article but this will suffice: http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/china-ne...
The article I read tells of towns people being robbed and beaten by criminals that pay off the local politicians.
Under Obama, the entire US will become like the inner city of Chicago, with the thugs calling the shots.
The only way Las Vegas can avoid going down the toilet is to move fast towards legalizing pot and prostitution. Even that may not save this city. But at least doing something would be better than allowing the city to continue it's economic free fall.
Trying to attract high tech industry or any industry is a future thing. It takes years to train people.
There are plenty of "trained" people in the high tech industry in this country but who wants to come to a city that, in your estimation, should legalize prostitution and drugs.
"If you build it-they will come" but not to a city that cannot deal with, or wants to deal with, more than just one industry and that is gaming and tourism. Plenty of cities in this country heavily rely on tourism but also have a broader economic base. New York and Chicago come to mind. Nevada and Las Vegas can do the same. You think if the Mob still ran Las Vegas, they'd be sitting there and relying just on gaming for the local economy? I doubt it. They may have been "crooks", but smart ones - or else Vegas wouldn't exist.
So we now know how you REALLY feel about the United States. Hope Costa Rica is good to you.
Under Obama, the entire US will become like the inner city of Chicago, with the thugs calling the shots.
LOLOLOL Oh please..... You are showing your ignorance. You wouldn't know the inner city of Chicago if it bit you in your a**!!!
Don't knock Chicago. Bet you've never been there but for an hour or two at the airport.
Nevada needs a lottery.
Det_Munch :
I know Chicago.. it's effin WINDY & COLD!!!
It appears to me that the thugs are already calling the shots in "Chicago on the Potomac."
All I know about Chicago is what I hear in the media reports of out of control violence, mostly from street thugs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVhXbjxUd...
Example of Chicago thugs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1tCKOcrC...
20 people shot in 12 hours in Chicago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svg7yITzZ...
You think Chicago is okay? LOL.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVhXbjxUd... first link above didn't work ....20 school kids shot within months .....not counts the 30 some odd kids who had their heads kicked in (beaten to death) in good ol Chicago beat downs ...done for fun by low IQ minorities. Det, are you a minority and defending these thugs?
THIS JUST IN.........
http://www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=1...
"If you build it-they will come"
That shows you don't understand business. You probably have a gov job, bet 12-1, am I wrong or right?
You don't "build" high tech places, it's all about getting high tech businesses to move in to a place where they have plenty of local universities, infrastructure, and a readily available work force. Why would any business want to move to Las Vegas given that over 50% of the kids in some of our schools don't speak english (illegals)? Are you kidding me? You think so and so educated parents would want to throw their kinds into that type of cesspool? If they high tech company moved here, they'd quit work for a competitor in silicon valley or another high tech hub. You don't "build" a high tech hub, you start from the ground up. Like Scarface said, "First you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the woman".
Newspapers are dinosaurs. I'll never forget Reid telling the RJ he wishes they'd go out of business. Karma indeed.
THANK YOU STEPHEN HORSFORD!
the real "thug" running chicago is Ricard Daley.
In response to the last comment, the Tourist industry will never tell you how bad it is in a specific place because that's 'bad for business.'
Serigo_the_Propet
"I don't use drugs, drink, or gamble. I don't pay for sex either. I based those thoughts on the following realities:"
LOL, I can't pass this one up. You must not be married because if you are; you along with all other married people who do pay more for sex than you would if prostitution was legalized or they were readily available without the fear of getting some disease and not be thrown in jail.
Think about it, really look at the cost each time you have sex with your spouse verses the cost to have sex with a prostitute. The cost differences are between the two from my point of view, priceless!
PS: The benefits to human nature are also priceless, many happy smiling people and politicians could fulfill their wildest dreams without the fear of being exposed, it's legal!
http://www.hulu.com/watch/2306/saturday-...
Is this what you're talking about?
Here are just a few of the jobless citizens of Las Vegas.
http://www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=1...
Times are really tough here in Las Vegas.......
In 2006, Britney Spears hosted a New Year's Eve bash at the Strip's Pure Nightclub -- and collected a reported $350,000 to ring in 2007.
Kim Kardashian was reportedly paid $50,000 by Tao Las Vegas to celebrate her 29th birthday at the club earlier this month.
Paris Hilton and her little sister, Nicky. Together, they received a reported $500,000 to ring in 2008 at Vegas's LAX Nightclub -- and they have both returned many times at no additional charge.
Jon Gosselin was reportedly paid $10,000 to hang poolside at Vegas's Wet Republic this summer.
"The reason you pay celebrities is because, more often than not, they're worth it," said one Las Vegas club executive who books celebrity parties. "People want to say they've partied at the same club as this celebrity or that celebrity."
Often referred to as "host" of the night, a celebrity's duty is really pretty simple: Nothing.
Typically, their only requirement is to show up, and clubowners can only hope the stars will return -- this time for free -- if they have a good time.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0%2...
Wow! Ignorance just abounds in some of these comments I have read. If anyone is wondering why our country is in the mess it is in, all they would have to do is read some of this crap and then remind themselves these people actually vote! As for Sergio_the_Profit, I don't know too many racists that brag about being white, and then call themselves "Sergio". Please do us all a favor and go live in Costa Rica permanently. As for Larry Vegas, while I don't agree with about 99% of what you have to say, you at least appear to have a few working brain cells and are open to discussion. My question to you is, you do realize that Sergio in one of his comments implied you and he were an awful lot a like? If I was you, I don't think I would take that as a compliment. As far as UI being a handout or "us" as a group being referred to as losers, deadbeats, entitled, etc. because we have been forced into drawing our UI, let me explain something to you. I have been working for 35 years. I have raised 5 children on my own simply because my sperm donor decided he didn't want to. I have worked 2 and 3 full time jobs to do this. I have never been on welfare, or food stamps, or had any kind of medical help. My youngest child turned 18 ,3 months after I lost my job in Nv. where I had worked for 15 years. It has been over a year now, I have relocated to Wa. to try and start over. I have done just about any legal job I had to do to feed and care for my children. For the first time since I was 16 years old, I have not been able to find a job. I am either over qualified or too old for the jobs I am more than qualified to do.For any of you to think we are just sitting here on our "lazy butts" enjoying this "handout", my only wish is that you too end up just like us. As far as the idiot who thinks us deadbeats should earn our unemployment picking up garbage or doing charity work...well gee if we did that, we would miss Judge Judy now wouldn't we? Things our horrible in this great country of ours right now, but this too shall pass. We will dust ourselves off and we will stand up again, because that is what we as Americans have always done. As far as how long we should be able to draw our UI? How about at least until we get through the winter, so that if the job market isn't better by then, we won't freeze to death when we become homeless?
For all of you cold, heartless, and non-compassionate people out there,shame, on you for the things you have said. Your mother's must be so proud of you. Believe me, all of us will survive this one way or another, and come out stronger because of it and we will do it in spite of morons like all of you.
maggie maggie maggie, where to begin.
My name is Sergio, and I am white, blue eyed ITALIAN, what, Italians can't be white? I resemble that remark, lol. As far as being racist, hey, I've bedded women of every race damn near, as long as they were a 10, so how can I be a racist? Give me a break!
It's hard to feel sorry for you maggie, I'm just being real here. I can't save the world. I can only save the people in my "circle", and that's what I do. And this just in ....no, the economy isn't going to turn around this time. "But it always has in the past". True, but there was a reason why thing always turned around in the past. In the past, Americans could go to war and fire up the factories and put people to work. Maggie, I don't know if you know this, but all those factories? They're all in CHINA NOW! In the past, we were able to lower interest rates and give everyone cheap credit so that they could buy stuff, consume (we are after all a consumer nation now) and things would get better. News flash: NO MORE CREDIT FOR ANYONE! That's right. The banks that Bush gave 1 trillion or so of our money to ....they KEPT IT! No accountability. No paper trail. Look it up. The fed doesn't know how it was spent or where it went. We trusted the bankers would do the right thing, that's it. What that did was cut up everyone's credit cards and refuse to make small businesses any loans. They won't change their evil ways because the bankers know that there are about 5 trillion dollars of toxic debt out there, and they don't know who is sitting on that toxic debt (caused by tossing up REIT's 30-40 times, in other words, 40 billion of RE backed loans would be sold 30-40 times, then insured 30-40 times. Those of us involved in the financial sector, and the banks, now it's all over, unless they come out with a new form of money and start over, there will be no more bank lending in the future. Period.
This nation is ripe for destruction for it's sins, and destruction is all we've got coming. Capish? So called right wing nut jobs such as myself are not cold. We just live by a different set of principles than yourself. We believe in tough love. We believe in teaching someone to fish vs giving someone a fish. God helps those who help themselves and live by true principles, not the Mao manuscripts or Marxist manifesto. True, bad things sometimes happen to good people. Those people will always be find in the end. Don't worry about them.
Sergio the Prophet, you know nothing about Chicago. Our airport is almost as big as your little Vegas, so wipe the comments. As for getting youtube facts, thats sounds like an unintelligent thing that some UNLV graduate would have done. First off, do your research, Nevada is actually ranked higher than Chicago in violent crime per population, Yes, sorry, but its true. Considering that Chicago is 5 times the size of your city, I'd say that you have a problem here my friend. Cold and windy, that is the biggest cliche' response ever. Take it from me, I have a college degree from the midwest and I feel like a genius compared to the one-level- minded californian type of person. There are some good people in this city of Vegas, but for the most part, I've ran into a bunch of people that think they are above anyone else. The funny thing is these people have no education or money to boot themselves. Sorry, but Chicago will alway persevere through the hard-times. I understand stand that the cold bothers your creaky old knees though- Your stupid comments will not be allowed.
Been to Chicago maybe four or five times on business and the place always seems to be covered in ice all winter long. Can't recall the wind blowing real bad. Just the ice.
As a native New Yorker, my opinion of Chicago's deep dish pizza is unprintable. Agh!
Sergio, Sergio, Sergio....where do I begin? You are perhaps forgetting some of your other insane postings where you more than insinuate you are a racists and bill yourself as being "white". Well if indeed you are Italian, then no honey...even the White Supremacist would not acknowledge you. You would be Italian. If your blue eyed and fair complected, chances are, you probably don't even have that much, if any Italian in you. As far as your "inner" circle goes, I am guessing you probably surround yourself with very young and impressionable kids, who haven't yet had a chance to experience life enough to realize how ignorant you truly are. No rational thinking adult would choose to be around you more than was absolutely necessary. I did not ask for you to feel sorry for me, or anyone else as far as that goes, for you to "feel" empathy towards anyone, you would have to also be capable of feeling "compassion", something you are not hard wired to do. I do understand why you are on here so much, it is because in an actual adult to adult conversation, you find yourself left out. Most adults choose not to engage in a battle of wits with unarmed opponents. As far as your eluding to your fantasy's of sleeping with all these women of different race's that are all "10's", again either all in your dreams, or you paid them, or, well we all know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, one man's 10, is another man's 1? Unless what you meant was they were all only 10 years old, that would make more sense. From a woman's point of view, trust and believe, any woman with class and a brain cell would pass you up no matter what your appearance, heritage, or financial status may be.
I think that Maggie23 has made her case very well, and her optimism is well.. damn inspirational to say the least. I'm not sure why she chose WA. to move to..pretty grey and wet in those parts, and depressing . The thing is this, our country will rebound if the proper decisions are made NOW by our leaders and ourselves. Lest we forget that it was us the little people and the full spectrum of greedy professionals in the real estate industry who fed off of each other to put us in the mess we are in right now. The elected officials did nothing to stop the gravy train and for their sins they will be out of office soon. So this leaves all of us to pull up our collective boot straps and with unity as Americans save this great country.
Good response Maggie, but be carefull not to lower yourself to Sergio's level. I will say this though...Sergio must be about oh say 60 years old. Come on, who says "bedded" anymore when speaking of their sexual conquest? That gave me a laugh!
Chicago pizza is no good, what in the hell do you New Yorkers call your pathetic, thin , little pie. I've had better pizza out of the freezer, no offense. Also, for the gentleman who said that he has been there 5 times and its always covered in ice, maybe dont go there 5 times in January or Febuary, duh! Try going in the summertime maybe or the fall, your not gonna get 100 degree blaring down on you everyday for 5 months. Vegas- the worst at the best, the best at the worst, thats your new slogan there.
vegassucs : You poor ignorant fool! everyone knows that Pizza was established in N.Y.C., don't go knocking our Pizza! it's the best! why do you think all of those places out west are named NY Style Pizza. I happen to like the deep dish pizza as well, it's Chicago's style pizza. Please there is enough room on this continent for both to exist in harmony!
Thank you LV4LIFE, and yes, LOL, I realize I was bordering? on lowering myself. Interesting you think he is in his 60's...I was going for a much lower age estimate. And I do believe we will survive all of this and come out stronger for it. While all faith is shaken or gone for our government, I still hold to the belief that "we" the ones that actually make up this great nation and are the backbone of it, will stand together and stand strong and demand more from our officials than we ever have before. Either they will respond and actually start working for us, or they will be removed from office. We are the ones who actually have the power, I just think we have forgotten that, and let them bully us for too many years. They have a job, we tell them what their job is, if they can't or won't do it, then we fire them and find someone else who will. I moved to Wa. as it is my home state and where my family lives. I missed out on 15 years of being around my mom, and now she is 80, so needless to say, time I will never get back. When I lost my job, I decided to start over back here to be around her. I never dreamed in a million years I would still be looking for work after all this time. It is what it is, and I still have faith we will recover. It didn't get this way over night and it won't get better over night. I am more concerned for the ones who have no family or friends to turn to during this crisis than I am myself. I consider myself very fortunate to have the family support I have.
If American's wants jobs then stand up and let it be known to the employer's who are working the illegal's, it is time for you to hire Americans.
Start with the landscape companies and work your way to the single family construction trades, they're hiring people, just go around and see who they are hiring and stand up for your American rights. Take back what our leaders are giving away, America jobs, built by Americans, for Americans.
If you have any doubts about who is being hired and who is working just drive around the planned communities and look at the workforce, if it smells like a duck, quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, it a duck.
You can sit back and whine and complain, sit at home and let your unemployment run out and sit in the welfare line or live on the streets or you can do what you know is best for you and your family, get a job. Jobs do exist; just who is taking your job is what the issue is.
It's about time American's standup and stop taking what Reid and the rest of the lunatic Democrats are cramming down America's throats, we are proud Americans and we're sick and tired of you selling American out for your voting pool.
Maggie and my other detractors,
I know that my words of wisdom are like hot water in the face; I understand and forgive your ignorance. Go in peace, and may God be with you.
By the way, I am in my 30's, Maggie was closer to the truth. I write like an older person because that's the way I suppose a Prophet should write, lol.
No on to your comments.
The "colored" part of Chicago is 100X's more violent than Las Vegas, and anyone who thinks otherwise is a numbnuts. It's like this. Chicago has it's "colored" area where 20 people are shot in a 12 hour period (I've never heard more than a couple people shot in our "colored" parts of town). The "per capita" BS, that's because LV is relatively small by national standards for big cities yet we have a violent "colored" part of town where all of the violent crime goes down, parts of town I've never set foot on and I grew up here! "Why oh Prophet, are you scared of getting beat down if you go to NLV"? No, not really. I have a carry permit and always carry heat when I go out and about, so I can defend myself better than the fools with gold teeth who try to shoot a gun sideways, I'd put a bullet in between their eyes while they hit a garbage can, the reason I don't frequent those blighted neighborhoods is because I don't use drugs and I have no reason to go there. Closest I've come to our "hood" was visiting Cox Cable one time when I was a kid on MLK. Chicago on the other hand, they have safe and secure "white areas" and of course the high rises that house a ton of people and are also very safe. But square mile for square mile, compared to Las Vegas, their crime is 100X's worse. Just watch those youtube video's to see the stereotypical Chicago thug. Sure, the people who lived in the white areas will speak up for their city and try to defend it, but those video's speak for themselves. Las Vegas has 80% good, safe areas and small blighted areas vs Chicago that is 20% safe and 80% "Colored". The Prophet has spoken, take heed and avoid Chicago at all costs! (NY Pizza is much better by the way)
know Chicago.. it's effin WINDY & COLD!!!
LOLOLOL Tell me about it. I have been back almost 3 weeks now in Illinois and I have used my windshield wipers MORE in that short period of time then I had the whole 7 years in Vegas!! Hell, I wasn't quite sure how to put on the rear defroster in the car!!!
Hey Sergio The Know It All:
No I don't have a government job. I am one of thousands and thousands who are unemployed that are collecting unemployment from the State of Nevada. THAT is why I moved back home to Illinois where I at least have a chance of getting a job so I can get off the gov't payroll (well that does seem like I have a government job, doesn't it?).
All I know about Chicago is what I hear in the media reports of out of control violence, mostly from street thugs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVhXbjxUd......
Example of Chicago thugs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1tCKOcrC......
20 people shot in 12 hours in Chicago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svg7yITzZ......
You think Chicago is okay? LOL.
Hey, it's the same in Vegas in case you haven't noticed. I see here at the SUn, a lot more crime happening in LV. Not the same kind of headlines in the Sun Times or Tribune. But if you got your head out of your ***, you will see that crime is happening EVERYWHERE. Lately it seems against our young children.
mikegino
Real Chicago pizza is not deep dish; just a good marketing ploy by the family who used to own Uno's and Due's. Real Chicago pizza is thin crust. But it depends on which side of the City you live on, too. One side likes deep dish, the other thin crust.
Chicago does have THE best steak joints though.
My name is Sergio, and I am white, blue eyed ITALIAN, what, Italians
THAT explains your egotistical, blowhard, full of hot air incessant "prophecies". Never met an Italian man with a small ego - small other things but not an ego.
You must live alone because NO ONE with any amount of sense, male or female, would put up with such a know it all windbag of a **** like you!! Bet you stare at yourself in the mirror a lot and talk to yourself when no one is around.
Chicago on the other hand, they have safe and secure "white areas" and of course the high rises that house a ton of people and are also very safe. But square mile for square mile, compared to Las Vegas, their crime is 100X's worse.
BLAH BLAH BLAH.
Hey Serg - "Colored" people also live in those high rises. Surprise!!! And OMG!! "Colored" people actually live in ALL neighborhoods in Chicago!!! Right next door to "White people"!!!
Idiot.
sergio, get off chicago. it's a nice place, but like every other big city it has good areas and bad ones. and the pizza rules, especially at 3am.
Chicago that is 20% safe and 80% "Colored". The Prophet has spoken, take heed and avoid Chicago at all costs!
Hey ****Boy - I'll show you around Chicago - if you have the cajones to leave safe Las Vegas!!! My guess is you don't!!!
Your percentages are SO OFF!!!!
Please, just like those who do not live in Vegas but think they know everything there is to know about the place because they read it on yahoo.com or CNN or spent a week at the Wynn or Bellagio, do NOT make assumptions about a City when you have never been there or really know nothing about it other than reading things online.
You mean colored people like Oprah? Maybe, but didn't she admit to smoking crack? Can dress a pig in a tux, but still a pig.
BTW, in real life, I am a humble, soft spoken gentlemen. Even though I own several companies and am "the boss" to others, I take the time to listen to everyone and treat everyone equal. Why? It's a good practice that's good for business. I live by true principles.
What you guys get to see on the Internet is my alter ego, the Sergio that can't be seen in public, the person who says what I think but dare not say in public lest I lose business, employees, friends, family, etc. This place is therapy for me! I can vent, rage, and speak my mind without any recourse, remorse, or concern, and I love it! Would I say these things around my let's say black business associates at the gym? Of course not. Also, I don't judge people by race, but by social status. To me, OJ is "whiter" than say a white guy who listens to hip-hop and uses drugs and lives in a poor part of town. It's a class thing, not a color thing. Once black people get college educated and live many years around white people, the enter a new social status that trumps the color of their skin. In other words, I wouldn't associate with white trash, I associate with people of class, substance, and a certain level of accomplishment, so miss me with the "racist" label, it's misguided. Get it strait! I'm a low life hater!
I've been to Chicago on several occasions. I manufacture "small appliances" and they have a trade show in January-Feb downtown Chicago.
The streets were always empty downtown near the convention center. That was nice. I don't complain about the cold because I didn't spend much time outside, who would? I did rent a car once and drove it from downtown to the airport, gassed up in a part of town with nothing but 2 story buildings. It was daytime and I didn't feel threatened, didn't look that bad. However, the headlines about the shootings and the crime in Chicago recently grabbed my attention as I was researching Obama. I wanted to see what he's done in his hometown to quell violence, drugs, etc. I was hoping that maybe electing a half black president would inspire his towns people to less crime, etc. I was shocked to see the reports of increased violence, beat downs, and crime in general. That's the Chicago I now have sketched in my mind, not the one I visited on convention.
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LOL! I just read your post about being a gentleman and living by principles. So you really are like the guy who is "so much cooler online!" That is so funny. So you lie to all the people around you, smile in their faces, pretend to be someone your not, and then call yourself principled? Honey, there is absolutely nothing about you that is a gentleman. Maybe you can find out the definition of a gentleman on youtube? Then you come on here and brag about how here you can really say what you want and how you feel? If you really are a man, you should be able to say what you think and feel any where and every where you go. If your still a little boy and a coward, a.k.a., a wanna be "man", then you come to places like this and let it all out! So enjoy your ability to express your freedom of speech, real men died to give you. Your still young, we have a saying in my family...be patient, God isn't finished with him yet. That is how I view you. Someday you will grow up, hopefully before you have children of your own so that you may teach them how to be respected members of our society. That's funny, you thinking the people you hang with have class. Trust me, anyone with class wouldn't spend 5 seconds around you.
Again, wrong. I'm a published writer; I don't spell check before I post my remarks, hence the voluminous typos. For you, however, I will spell check and proof my words. To spite you more than anything, lol.
Most Northern Italians have fair skin, blue eyes, and blond hair. We look more like Swedes than Italians. The southern Italians ...."not so mucha". They had some Morish pipe laid in their neck of the woods. Not so mucha upa north. So much for your knowledge of Italians, eh?
Let me "bottom line" this for you Maggie. You are where you are today because of decisions you have made in the past. Not because a 'sperm doner'; not because of the "evil" Republicans. No. Because you spread your legs Maggie instead of going to college to learning a marketable trade, that's why. From my perspective, the problem with most Americans today is that they feel entitled to a good way of life without having to pay their dues and more importantly, living a moral life according to "true" principles! You think most rich people just inherited their money and didn't work hard to achieve success. Again, wrong! Those who cheat to make their fortunes; they'll lose it all someday. Those who inherit money or win the lottery; they'll blow it and be poor again someday. The only SUSTAINABLE way to achieve financial security and I should know because I am financially secure is to be the boss, invent something, develop something, create something, etc. You don't become independently wealthy in a "consumer" society (being pelted 24/7 with marketing ads that make you blow your money) with a "job", please. That is laughable! The best you can do is live paycheck to paycheck.
Free advise from the Prophet, for your consideration Maggie. Now go forth and sin no more!
Please educate yourselves about unemployment insurance and who is or is not eligible. It has been around longer than most of us.
http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps...
For those who don't agree with it, feel free to burn your Social Securtiy card and stop using the number.
0 inflation and fewer collectors = fully funded Social Securtiy system. Rubes.
Sergio, honey...did I hit a nerve with you? I know I hit the nail on the head as far as you being a gentleman huh? Obviously, I took full responsibility for the "spreading" of my legs and bringing forth my children. I supported them, loved them and cared for them without any help from anyone. That is what "responsible" people do, and I have never regretted one second of my decisions. But then again, I raised very compassionate, independent, loving and respectful children. Let me remind you, your mother also willing "spread her legs" and became infected with you. Oh! Hey there is a thought about why you are the way your are. Didn't your mommy love you enough? As I said earlier, she must be so proud of the way you turned out. Oh wait, I forgot, you said even your own family has no idea you are such a miserable and vile person. News Flash! I will bet they do know all about you and your little dirty secret life you enjoy on the internet. By the way, writing graffiti on bath room walls is not considered being a "published" writer. As for my education, missed the mark again Sergio. I was able not only to provide a comfortable life for my children, but put myself through school as well. You know, with all the wonderful jobs you have and businesses you own, as well as all the money you have, you would think you would be able to pay someone to sit adoringly at your feet and tell you how wonderful and smart you are as you spew forth your ridiculous and ignorant garbage. Surely that would be more fun for you than this.
Maggie,
Kicking cactus will get you nowhere! Follow my advise and you'll be fine. As for my advise being "vile", I beg to differ. Tough love is never vile.
Sergio,
As soon as you offer some thing that even remotely resembles advice, I may take it into consideration. Trying to shove your opinion down someone's throat, or trying to make them feel stupid or unworthy if they don't adhere to your beliefs is not advice. That is narcissism. As far as tough love goes, before you can teach through tough love, you first have to love someone other than yourself, and more than yourself. Again, something I am sure you are not capable of doing.
My advise was to first accept responsibility for your present predicament. Once you establish that empowering fact, you can take charge of your life and accomplish whatever you want to accomplish, knowing that nobody or nothing is standing in you way!
Whatever you like doing, whatever talent you have, think of a way to become your own boss. Think of ways to make other people happy. Think of ways to enrich others lives. Then go about setting up a business to make those people happy. Utilize free online marketing tools such as craigslist at first to keep expenses down.
After you start your business, work like hell to make it prosper, even if it takes all your time! Real as many books as you can, Gorilla Marketing, etc etc.
You'll be amazed at what you're able to accomplish without any help from the gov, city, family or friends. That was my advise, basically, without the rest of the stuff.
Hang in there Sergio. Decriminalization of prostitution and pot would in fact make Vegas a world class destination even in hard times. And these activities could be regulated, taxed and the advertising controlled to avoid offending the family.
Let's face it, with fabulous casinos springing up country-wide (and they all look the same and play the same games), LV is long way to travel to, well what? See a great show. Lot's of places to do that. Play Blackjack, slots or poker? Ditto.
Play golf or get a tan, better places to do that.
These are not society ruining proposals. They are simply about accepting reality, accommodating
widespread demand, and providing a unique life experience in America.
Just how many "church ladies" are there in Nevada? I thought it was the last bastion of freedom in the USA. Let "What Happens is Vegas is Worth Going to Vegas" be the new motto. Sounds like fun to me.
Now see, you are able to almost play nice with others. With the exception of you telling me to accept responsibility for my present predicament. I have and always will take responsibility for what ever predicament I find myself in. Now I will give you credit for the advice you have offered, it is very good advice. However, again you are a little too late with it where I am concerned at least. Let me explain something to you. I have already done all that you have spoke of. What I have learned in this life to date, is what makes me happiest is helping other people, making someone smile, or giving encouragement to those who can't see the forest for the tree's. I have been buying and re-selling off of Craigs list for quite awhile now, but where you are thinking of profit, I am thinking of filling a need. I have been heavily involved in obtaining either very good deals, or getting items for free and then finding the families that need these items the most. If they can pay me something for them great, if not, that's ok too. If you look back at my postings, you will see, I haven't complained, or placed blame etc. or cried or moaned about anything. Life is what it is. Why I started to post here, which is something I have never done before, is because I couldn't believe how horrible people were talking about and to their fellow man. I still can't. Whether anyone thinks that it is their fault or not: should have saved more money, could have gotten a better education, shouldn't have done this or that, it doesn't matter. There are a lot of people out there that have lost everything they owned and will probably never fully recover from it in their life time. My concern is the people with children. Children once again, the innocent victims. Have we as a society grown so cold and heartless, that we can't even feel for a hungry, cold and scared child anymore? This scares me more than anything else. I had someone just a few weeks ago yell at me in frustration and ask me why this isn't bothering me. My response is, if you never had it to lose, then you don't worry about losing it. I take no stock in material items, never have, never will. Until I experience different, my belief is we only get to go around this life once, so I have spent mine trying to bring others comfort and laughter. I have already lost a brother, several friends and other family members, all who went too soon. Last year right before xmas, I learned I now get to watch my beautiful 2 yr. old precious grandson die a slow and painful death. No treatment, no cure. I see on the news they found the six yr old little girl dead in a garbage dump, today a 9 yr old little girl dead in the woods...my point is there is so much out there that really does have a cause and affect, And then I tune into all this hate and superiority, and just plain stupid and mean b.s. I stick up for the underdog, always have always will. Everyone just needs to grow up and put things in prospective.
Hello Maggie,
Sorry I post so abrasively, again, this place is a release from having to be "politically correct" 24/7, drives me crazy sometimes, especially when I see the world and the US in particular being turned upside down by the Neocons (Bush) and now the current "New Boss" who is same as the old boss, probably worse.
Given what you told me, you can make a fortune with Craigslist. What you'll need to do is find someone who can give you a great deal on a U-Haul truck or a small pick-up with a "junk" trailer. (Under $1500) You should then rent a home (with friends?) that has a lot of storage space, or find a storage cheap warehouse space (prices have plummeted, lots of empty warehouse space) that cost around $800 a month. You then find someone else who is unemployed and you hire them to work with you as a partnership (the other person the muscle, you the brains and computer - ad person) and you go to town picking up "free" stuff from Craigslist all day long then re-sell it to families moving into the area or people looking for great deals. You also contact all of the storage units in town, ask them to notify you every time they auction off storage units. I did this many years ago and made a fortune. One in ever three storage units I bought was a goldmine with shoe boxes full of rare trading cards, even stock certificates, jewelry, canned food, guns, drugs, you'll be amazed what you get. Most storage units back then belonged to people who were sentenced to long prison terms (drug dealers) and lost their storage. Today, I imagine most belong to unemployed people who lose their lives savings because they can't pay the storage fee. You need to be tough and look at this as a business. You can donate the stuff that isn't an "easy sell" and sell the easy stuff only. With free ads on Craigslist and other sites, it's easy to move the free stuff you go around picking up. You take the profits from that and buy abandoned storage units. Your first month, you'll make around $2000 profit with not that much effort. If you get lucky, like I did on a monthly basis, you'll make over $10,000, and you'll get to fire the boss.
Take the profits and buy a $15,000 house or condo for cash (plenty of those all over the country) Live dept free, continue with the free advertising, free stuff business model that is a "can't miss". Help others along the way, create a homeless shelter for families by buying apt building in the future, have them earn their free rent by helping you with their business, pay them a percentage of your profits if you strike it rich with the storage units, grow your business slowly and debt free.
Just remember, it's better to shoot an arrow at the stars and hit the moon that shoot an arrow at the moon and hit a rock. Good luck whatever you decide to do.
DCThomas,
Of course Las Vegas should take the hundreds of million dollars a year sitting on the table by legalizing prostitution, but we both know they won't, and we both know where this country and city are heading. Sad thing is that people don't realize the truth about our founding fathers. Ben Franklin for instance was a notorious pot smoking whore monger. Most founding fathers smoked pot and drank in excess. Most grew pot. They called it hemp back then. Even the declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper. Hemp apparently is very useful, not only as self medication, but for a number of other things. That part of history isn't in our school text books, so most people think that our founding fathers were prudish, religious puritans. Nothing could be further from the truth. Franklin and Washington were Freemasons who in the higher degrees dabble into witchcraft, sexual orgies (with kids), and other evil stuff (don't want to go there). The people who moved here were religious people, and because the majority rules, we did become a prudish country. I hate to say this, but our leaders in DC are inheritable evil people who do not do what is right (legalize prostitution and pot) because they are of high moral standards, (quite the opposite). No. They keep drugs illegal in order to protect the illegal drug trade which makes the elites a fortune. Olly North for instance, "Great American" according to Hannity. Convicted drug trafficker in Costa Rica not allowed to enter the country or he'll be arrested immediately. That's how he bough his mansion while working for the government, before he wrote any books, appeared on TV. Bush-Clinton etc= drug dealers. Now Obama. Makes me sick. That's why they won't legalize pot, that's why they won't legalize prostitution. Hypocrites to the nth degree.
Interesting article on pot as it related to the founding fathers: http://www.illuminati-news.com/marijuana...
Bet they didn't teach you that in school!
As for prostitution, that's an easy one. Make it legal in certain parts of downtown, a "red light district". Regulate it. Make it safe. Make tons of money.
@Maggie23, environprotector, lv4life, Det_much & others who are providing a counter argument to Sergio_the_Prophet & others regarding the current unemployment situation: THANK YOU.
I reside in NYS with my wife & son. I have been articulating positions stating that unemployment compensation / benefits are not HANDOUTS, but a vital life line for millions of Americans. Most of these individuals, through no fault of their own, lost their jobs due to decades of short term policies through various administrations that only protected their financial interests.
Sergio_the_Prophet & Larry Vegas, below please find a link describing my academic background & an articulation describing why American Society is in the economic mess that we are in. Part of the mess that affected the average "Unemployed American through no fault of their own" is caused by no other than people like you & Mr. Vegas. It appears that both of you don't believe in ethics, integrity, values & morals; a sense of community & common good. The only thing that is most important to individuals like you is GREED, GREED & MORE GREED AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHERS. JUST LIKE OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS, WHO ARE SO OUT OF TOUCH! IT IS A TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE.
The link is for an essay called: Unemployment Benefits: An Important Life Line for Millions of Americans.
http://unemploymentarticulationletter.bl...
I also have included the following link:
http://www.opensecrets.org
The above-referenced link will show the net worth of our elected officials. Based on the review, they truly do not represent the average American. Whatever happened to a government that is, "For the People; by the People?"
Just listen to songs like Little Man by Alan Jackson; A Different World by Bucky Covington & of course Imagine by John Lennon. Try closing your eyes & putting yourselves in other people's shoes.
As I stated before, the only two things that I may remotely agree with you on is the legalization of prostitution, for the very fact that you take the criminal element out of it marijuana.
Side note. I have never smoked a cigarette, cigar or tried
marijuana. I may drink an alcoholic beverage or have a glass of wine once every year.
TO ALL WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED:
PLEASE READ THE ESSAY & INCORPORATE THOSE IDEAS INTO YOUR OWN STORIES. CONTINUE CALLING, FAXING & EMAILING SENATORS ARTICULATING THE POSITION THAT UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS ARE VITAL FOR THE VERY FABRIC OF AMERICA.
REMEMBER, EACH WEEK AT LEAST 400K+ JOBS ARE ELIMINATED. AND WHEN A POSITION IS AVAILABLE, JUST THINK ABOUT HOW MANY UNEMPLOYED APPLICANTS APPLY? TAKE IT ONE STEP FURTHER, ADD COLLEGE GRADUATES THAT ARE COMPETING FOR THE VERY SAME JOBS.
FOR YOU & OTHERS TO CRITICIZE THE MILLIONS OF UNEMPLOYED WHO ARE TRULY LOOKING FOR EMPLOYMENT IS DISHEARTENING, DISCONCERTING & CRUEL. IT SHOWS A LACK OF EMPATHY & SYMPATHY. MOST IMPORTANTLY, IT SHOWS IGNORANCE.
What if?
If everyone was to follow others advice and work for themselves, whose labor would businesses exploit to make money or for that matter build anything beyond a simple structure? Only by many cooperating and working together does a modern society funtion. Some folks really don't think things through. You need leaders, middle managers and workers. The saying "too many leaders and not enough followers" (PC) comes to mind. We have unemployment insurance because the leaders value their jobs. Hungry people and those without basic needs being met are too busy surviving to be effectively led. So, yes there will be unemployment and stimulous and anything else that is perceived to be necessary to keep the masses happy. That is why every government on the face of the planet is busily dumping money back in to their respective economies. You don't want to see what will hapeen without it, and neither do they.
I am sure that Nevada is ahead of Michigan in unemployment because there were so many independent contractors, (1099) workers and such that were in the construction industry that are not being counted. Michigan did not have the construction activity that Nevada had. These independent contractors are not eligible for unemployment compensation.
Ron1... You addressed me directly and wanted me to open a link describing your academic background & an articulation describing why American Society is in the economic mess that we are in.
Sorry, I do not care about your academic background. What I do care about is your lack of motivation in obtaining ANY kind of employment and expecting taxpayers to continue your unemployment benefits forever.
It appears to me that you are on a political mission to have unemployment compensation extended to last forever for those who are unemployed. Since you live in New York State and drew unemployment from New York State why don't you petition New York instead of Nevada.
It does not appear to me that you are really looking for employment. If so, you would have taken a different position then you were laid off/fired from over one year ago.
In answer to your following statement:
"FOR YOU & OTHERS TO CRITICIZE THE MILLIONS OF UNEMPLOYED WHO ARE TRULY LOOKING FOR EMPLOYMENT IS DISHEARTENING, DISCONCERTING & CRUEL. IT SHOWS A LACK OF EMPATHY & SYMPATHY. MOST IMPORTANTLY, IT SHOWS IGNORANCE."
I have not heard anyone criticize any of the unemployed who are truly looking for employment.
I for one, criticize those who appear to not to be looking for work, but looking to have unemployment compensation extended FOREVER.
And Ron1, you have written over 60 posts on this site, basically asking for people to "CONTINUE CALLING, FAXING & EMAILING SENATORS ARTICULATING THE POSITION THAT UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS ARE VITAL FOR THE VERY FABRIC OF AMERICA."
Please go out and get a job. Any job. Maybe it would help that instead of trying to promote yourself, you take a deep look at yourself and GET A JOB!!!
I am not a very religious person, but one of the things I do remember is that GOD HELPS THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES.
LarryVegas:
Good evening.
I would like to take a moment & mention that because of my constant motivation, I finally obtained a 90 day temporary full time position starting 10/29. Furthermore, I also received a phone call for an interview at the United States Military Academy at West Point. For you to accuse me of not being motivated again shows your ignorance. If you had taken the time, you would see why.
The current economic situation is horrible. There are more individuals out of work than there are positions. There needs to be a constant life line for the unemployed, period.
Side note. I worked in NJ.