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Obama’s words no help for industries treading wate
Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010 | 2:03 a.m.
When the leader of the greatest free nation on Earth speaks and makes recommendations, people listen and people follow. After all, what kind of leader are you if you cannot inspire people to follow?
This is why people in this area are so floored by the recent suggestion by President Barack Obama to not spend your money in Vegas or on a boat when saving for college.
We know people only hear half the message at best. In this case, the message was to not go to Vegas and don’t spend your money on boats. People will follow the recommendations. This will mean fewer people will come to Vegas and our educational revenue will suffer as a result. It also means people will put off buying a boat (no matter how inexpensive), helping sink another low-margin, barely-holding-on industry and all of the employed people associated with it. Sound familiar?
A responsible way of getting across the same message is: “When you are saving for your college education, you need to be careful how you spend your hard-earned money for your future.”
On another matter, my hat is off to Mayor Oscar Goodman, who instantly knew the ramifications of Obama’s remark and responded as a politician who truly believes he represents the people who elected him in a world where politicians only represent themselves.
Maybe the next time President Obama wants to make a point about saving money for college, he should suggest not spending money on a fancy expensive vacation in Hawaii, or not buying a new $30,000 car from Detroit, or not placing a sports bet in Dover, Del., or not spending your money on wasteful, unhealthy cigarettes.
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Wow, Anthony you might have Stang stomping his feet up and down after reading your letter. His beliefs are what matters here on these posts and noboby eleses. Good luck!
Today's headline shows the largest toy store closing in America's playground because not enough people are coming to Las Vegas. Gone with it are the jobs and the taxes.
Obama seems to want Nevada totally broke.
How will our economy survive if citizens don't spend money to keep it circulating? If we only had a job that could pay for our overhead. Oh, thats right we'd have to be voted into that position.
Leader? Obama is not a leader.
I waste a lot of money on something a lot more worthless than gambling. It is called taxes.
Ritz at Lake Las Vegas is closing.
That will make Obama's day.
One less place for people to go to blow their cash in Vegas.
Wailer Anthony gets it and Mayor Goodman gets it.
So how come, Obama and Liberals don't get it?
They keep telling us how intelligent they are and the rest of us are dummies.
Maybe Liberals, like their esteemed leader Obama are all "slow learners."
Poor Larry, no one is taking his bait.
Try harder, Larry.
"They keep telling us how intelligent they are and the rest of us are dummies."
Meanwhile, SgtRock over here (http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/feb...) calls anyone who throws a buck at a lottery ticket is "dumb."
"It is a tax on dumb people."
Kinda hard to take the high road when your buddies are undermining you, Larry.
edgewise makes just about as much sense as a screen door on a submarine...
Larry, you shouldn't be so mad that no one is taking your bait. Maybe you should be smarter about it next time.
I'm glad to see you disagree with Obama and think that everyone should waste their college savings in Vegas. That's the smartest thing I've ever heard.
Spin all you like there edgewiser. Obama should have been smart enough not have singled out Las Vegas or boating.
Of course you don't get it, you are an elitist Liberal just like Obama. "... a slow learner."
As you say: "That's the smartest thing I've ever heard."
Just remember being an elitist does not a leader make...
Let's remember who got us into this mess.
George Bush and the Republican Party did.
Put the blame where it belongs.
The slow learners are Republicans.
The current problem is not who got us in the current recession...
The big problem is that the Obama Administration can NOT get us out of the recession...
So let's get back to Health Care and forget about that darned economy. Nobody cares about the economy anyway...
Health care and the economy go hand in hand.
The current problem IS the recession, which Bush's disastrous fiscal policies and lack of oversight of the financial industry caused.
Meanwhile the Republicans complain about the deficit but won't vote for bills which reduce it.
They place blanket holds on nominees rather than contributing toward a solution.
They demanded the stimulus be changed to tax cuts, which have been proven NOT to stimulate the economy.
Republicans offer criticism and blame but no solutions.
edgewise is 100% correct.
The two greatest minds on this discussion forum believe each other is 100% correct.
Just like Liberals who pretend to be elitists but really are "slow learners..."
Republicans claimed tax cuts were the cure for the recession. Congressional Democrats threw them a bone and gave over $300 billion in tax cuts in the stimulus bill to small businesses, big businesses and the middle class.
They didn't work. What's the Republican solution?
More tax cuts. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results.
Larry, how's that padded room?
Wailer Anthony was correct in his statement:
"...my hat is off to Mayor Oscar Goodman, who instantly knew the ramifications of Obama's remark and responded as a politician who truly believes he represents the people who elected him in a world where politicians only represent themselves."
The good Mayor forgot more about basic economics then the entire Oblame Administration...
Basic economics? Obama's plan to curb the deficit involves cutting spending and raising revenue.
Meanwhile the Republicans are placing holds on administration appointees until their wasteful earmark demands are met.
The Republican refrain of "cut my taxes but don't cut spending" is no way to govern, Larry.
Oblame has done a good job of increased spending to increase the deficit all right.
Wailer Anthony knows that Oblame's comment was wrong.
Mayor Goodman knows that Oblame's comment was wrong.
But our little Liberal friends do not have a clue what happened because they are slow on the uptake...
I was just pointing out that the Democrats' plan of cutting the deficit is much more realistic than the Republican plan, Larry.
Why can't you refute that?
And you've already admitted that you agree students shouldn't spend their college savings on a trip to Vegas, so your criticism of that is hollow.
May Goodman said that Oblame was "a slow learner," but some of Oblame's Liberal followers are NOT slow learners, they just don't understand that one is responsible for what they say.
Liberals don't care about local economies, they just want to add to the federal deficit and the Liberal idea of reducing expenses, is to saddle more unfunded mandates to the states...
I know all of you Non-Liberals know that I was referring to the good MAYOR Goodman.
For those Liberals out there, please don't get confused or upset thinking that I was trying to demonize the Mayor who is "a quick learner" unlike...
"the Liberal idea of reducing expenses, is to saddle more unfunded mandates to the states..."
Your boy Bush pushed NCLB to the states as an unfunded mandate. Where's your criticism?
Oh, right, you let Republicans get away with that stuff while criticizing the Democrats.
I think that makes you a hypocrite.
Oh, I get it now. George Bush broke into Oblame's teleprompter and changed his speech to include the words; Las Vegas and boating.
I knew it just had to be George Bush's fault.
So no criticism for Bush's unfunded mandates, Larry?
Way to own that hypocrite label! Be proud!
Or as some might say: Obama Derangement Syndrome.
I am so proud not to be a Liberal.
I am so proud to know that what I say might come back to haunt me, even though I did not go to Harvard.
I am proud not to blame someone else for my mistakes.
I am so proud that I have written short notes, such as license plate numbers, on my hand before.
I am so proud not to demonize a person because of their race, sex, or political preference.
I am so proud to be an American...
The slow learners are the Republicans, who still
don't understand that their right-wing ideology
is what ruined our economy.
Bush forced Obama to lie and say that the "stimulus" would keep unemployment at 8% or lower.
That bad...bad...Bush...
BUSH CREATED THIS MESS.
Obama's words no help for industries treading water.
George Bush broke into Oblame's teleprompter and changed his speech to include the words; Las Vegas and boating.
I knew it just had to be George Bush's fault.
OblameO has changed his standard introduction from, "Let me be clear" to "I'M ALL EARS!"
I almost feel sorry for him. Almost.
After hearing the rants from the right-wing,
lunatic fringe, I am glad of every single day
that Obama is president.
I don't regret my vote for one second.
Trying to explain Obama's advice to the Tea Party/Birther crowd is a pointless waste of time. Trust me, they not only understand what he said, they agree that it is sound advice. What they will never do, is give him credit for anything. Instead, they will choose to misinterpret and feign outrage. What they accomplish is to expose their bigotry and stupidity. They are the rabble who are easily roused. They don't mind being used because they have no clue that they are. There is at one exception on these boards. There is one who is among the string pullers.
I think you are all wet there Stan, but you are entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong you are...
Trying to explain Bush's advice to the anti-war/911 cazy crowd is a pointless waste of time. Trust me, they not only understand what he said, they agree that it is sound advice. What they will never do, is give him credit for anything. Instead, they will choose to misinterpret and feign outrage. What they accomplish is to expose their bigotry and stupidity. They are the rabble who are easily roused. They don't mind being used because they have no clue that they are. There is at one exception on these boards. There is one who is among the string pullers.
Bush will go down in history as the worst
president we ever had.
srock can't change that fact.
teamster is a blast of fun.
In one breath...he writes and moans about people not giving Obama credit for anything.
In the next breath...he writes and says Bush will go down as the worst president ever.
Funny way to try to build a spirit of bi-partisanship.
Sgt,
Teamster is a broken record.
The guy believes that Obama can pass bills and then teamster just tosses the cost of it onto Bush. I'm pretty sure that teamster believes Bush quadrupled the deficit during Obama's first year and that Bush promised unemployment wouldn't exceed 8% if the stimulus package didn't pass. It's actually Bush's fault that Obama mentioned Vegas in his places not to visit.
Like I said, bush will go down in history as
the worst president we ever had.
These lame right-wingers know it's true.