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Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 | 2:01 a.m.
In their Wednesday op-ed, “Romney’s ideas are wrong for Nevada,” Harry Reid, Bob Miller and Richard Bryan attempt to pin Nevada’s high unemployment and record foreclosures on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
The writers’ only bit of evidence is that 1) Mr. Romney once said that the housing crisis had to “hit the bottom” before it could recover and 2) Mr. Romney made money by laying off workers.
On the former, I doubt Mr. Romney’s comments had the same effect on Nevada’s economy as Mr. Obama’s 2009 comments that criticized Las Vegas as a symbol of excess and greed. After that remark, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority reported 340 event cancellations that cost the local economy about $131.6 million.
As for Mr. Romney’s time at Bain Capital, I await Messrs. Reid, Miller and Bryan’s equally indignant criticism of Mr. Obama’s layoffs and factory closings at General Motors. In both scenarios, the layoffs were necessary to save the company.
By all means, elections are about the future, but let’s not forget the past.
The author is president and chief executive of the Consumer Electronics Association.
It will be tough for Obama to run against Romney a real economy grower and job creator.
An economy growing at 2% and underemployment at 20% three years into a recovery is not good enough. To many are being left behind.
Writer is absolutely right.
Perhaps after all is said and done, and the US gets out from under this economic tsunami, the best result will be the end of Keynesian economics.
Granted to all's credit including the President, Jan 2012 created 243,000 jobs. President was ecstatic. Well he should be. But in truth, we need this number for job growth for 15 consecutive months to bring the unemployment rate back to full rates. It's been 37 months on his watch and the economy made it one time. Dismal at best.
Here lie John Maynard Keynes and Jon S. Corzine, the gurus of the Obama economy, RIP.
Carmine A. DiFazio
another piece of crap letter...
from a non las vegas resident...
PUBLISHED BY THE LAS VEGAS SUN!!!
hey brian greenspun...
seems to me partner...
your paper has lost its voice...
this constant publishing of out of town right wing letters which serve no purpose but to incite...
pure crap brian...
has turned me off to your paper...
the editor needs to find a new vocation...
or you need to get back to your roots...
what would your father say about this nonsense???
Gary Shapiro. Did you ever hear the story of the "Stupid Defunct Farmer"? He once owned a prominent orange orchard in a small township. The oranges his trees would bear would be some of the most top quality fruit on the free market. But, over time the owner of this grove saw his profits diminishing. He finally realized that some people who lived in his township were coming on his property and stealing his oranges from off his trees. Not desiring to make enemies with his neighbors, the farmer laid off his work crews and allowed the people of his township to come take a reasonable amount of fruit from his trees for just their family needs. All the farmer asked in return from the people of his township was, to water and fertilize his orchard, and pick and package the remaining oranges from his orchard for resale on the open market. The farmer soon discovered he had been betrayed. The remaining oranges on the trees had rotted. The trees were dying from lack of maintenance and watering. The farmer no longer had any oranges left to sell for profit. A once bright and beautiful orange orchard now had a strong scent of decay. The majority of people in his township began amassing on his property, protesting him. Their grievances? They were demanding their daily issue of oranges. When the farmer no longer produced, he was publicly flogged, and put to death.
This story is representative of a Republican businessman and a majority of the Democratic following. They want something for nothing. They believe they are owed by individuals who have made themselves a success.
Just like a significant percentage of people in that township of the farmer, we have many Democrats in our society who believe the same way.
As an addendum to my initial post, I personally know more than a few Republican's who give a great deal to the needy. But, on the whole, Republican's have learned the hard way. They do not want to be akin to the "Stupid Defunct Farmer". This is precisely the reason most Republican's refuse to give in to Democratic compromises. I certainly do not blame them one iota in this respect.
So, I guess the Consumer Electronics Show listened in 2009, cancelled its show, and has stayed away from Las Vegas ever since --
Or is are you hinting that if Nevada does not cast its 5 electoral votes for your candidate the CES is outtahere?
With the high unemployment and foreclosure, we need a candidate that does not run from his religion like Romney.
At least Gingrich will hit the jewlry stores.
Mr. Goodman: Its true the CES show, the largest show to come to Nevada, did come in 09 and years after. That is a fact. But make no mistake. the Presidents comments cost our city many conventions, millions of dollars and many people thier jobs. This is also a fact.
Once again, the crackpot Simmons shows his latent anti-Semitism. Apparently he's not only a racist and a bigot, Simmons is also hard of hearing or he'd have heard the "fast talking" Osama Obama at work. Had the Republicrats chosen Mitt in 2008, we would never of had to put up with the apologist CEO now polluting the oval office. Mitt would have won hands down and the oily Osama Obama would have been a foot note in history. As it is, historians will write how the cretin nearly destroyed America in his rabid quest to "Europeanize" the nation. It will be a relief to be rid of the creepy-crawler with the Chesire cat smile come November!
Obviously, and without question folks, the CEO of CES has done a lot more to put hard-working Las Vegans back to work than Osama Obama, Goodman or dipstick. Their object is to take from others what they earn and distribute it to the "parasitic" class, while Shapiro brings tens of 1,000s to LV who actually contribute to society. We need fewer Goodman's and dipstick's and more Shapiro's to offset the damage done by Osama Obama and his fellow travelers such as Goodman & dipstick to our local and national economy.
"By all means, elections are about the future, but let's not forget the past."
They sure are.
That's why America voted President Obama into office.
Because the very thought of further Republican Party nonsense was too much to stomach. The American people voted and rejected the very idea of another eight years of incompetence, corruption, war and other things that pounded America so senseless that it led directly to lost wealth and destitution for millions of Americans.
Americans WILL NEVER FORGET what President Bush Jr. did to this country. And we all vow it will never happen again.
It's very easy to take facts, cherry pick them, choosing the ones that fit an agenda, and throw them hard and often at a wall. In hopes that at least a few of them stick.
This is what this letter is about.
It pounds out an agenda that has been declared already inedible.
President Obama for another four years.
AND a majority in the House and the Senate.
We have a country to fix. To go back to insanity is not an option.
The positive jobs numbers reported yesterday is just what GOPers didn't want to see. Their plan to make Obama a one-termer depends on constant obstructionism in order to maintain the devastated economy left behind by Bush and good news for America is bad for republicans.
And as far as GM is concerned, rightwing idiots wanted to let thew company die but Obama refused to allow the loss of another million jobs in addition to the many millions Bush had squandered.
Bottom line: America's economy is coming back despite the GOP's best effort to extend their trickledown misery.
Harry Reid, Bob Miller and Richard Bryan.
I was wondering what happened to the Traveling Fleebaggers. More and bigger government.
How's the green job fantasies doing?
<...the Presidents comments cost our city many conventions, millions of dollars and many people thier jobs. This is also a fact...>
Okay, I'm going to beat this dead horse one more time: Did it ever occur to you, Chuckie, that conventions were possibly cancelled because corporations or business entities that planned Vegas conventions were laying off employees, cancelling raises and 401K contributions but yet were going to spend thousands if not millions of dollars, money that came on the backs of those employees, coming to Vegas? The only WISE choice was to cancel their cushy conventions and stay home with the employees they screwed. And sure - the President's remarks probably had something to do with it and on second thought - those entities cancelled those conventions because how would it really look when the Boss tells his assistant or accounting dept. that sorry, no raise this year, your health insurance premium is going up and no more matching 401K contributions but please finish these assignments by tomorrow because he and 20 other hotshot employees will be leaving for 8 days in Vegas for an alleged convention?
Okay, the horse is dead for sure now.
And, in addition, Det. Munch, many folks cancelled because we were in a credit crunch which dried up lines of credit, made large sales very difficult because financing for them had dried up, really dinged cash flow to the point that a lot of places had difficulty scrounging the cash to make payroll, and made the potential return from conventions and meetings really difficult to see. But the economy stopped crashing, and businesses could see a future -- and they started coming back to Las Vegas for business purposes. So the meeting and conventions business has been strong.
Our problem continues to be finding enough individuals with enough discretionary income to make money from gaming, rooms, restaurants, and shows. That is rising, but it will take more foreign tourists and much stronger growth in US GDP that raises income levels and restores a semblance of wealth to the middle class.
Not sure if anyone has seen this, but the following sure qualifies to be Mr. Romney's campaign song....
"Save The Rich" by the internet comediennes Garfunkel and Oates.
Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M8fOwHnw...
Gary......
Nevada's economy is the result of all of the
republican's policy of greed.
And Romney is included in the republican policy
of pure greed.
Sending American money to hide in banks in
Europe.
Firing American workers and sending their jobs
to COMMUNIST CHINA for slave labor.
Killing labor unions in the U.S.
Killing our middle class.
YES, REPUBLICAN GREED IS WHAT HURT LAS VEGAS!
Americans need good paying jobs again, so they
can come to Vegas and not worry about paying
their rent or house payments.
SAVE OUR ECONOMY.
ALWAYS VOTE DEMOCRATIC!