User profile: howdydostu

THANK YOU CONGRESSWOMAN!!
Know that you won your election because health care was a major concern for Nevadan's. Thank you for being pragmatic, for thinking this through.
The lesson learned in upstate New York yesterday was that you were elected to do the great job you're doing. The right-wing tea baggers will NEVER support you. They lost. And WE can only continue to support you when you accomplish offering affordable health care plans available for us!
NOW, we CANNOT delay this 'til 2013! The faster the naysayers and tea baggers see the good results of your work they will quietly crawl back under a rock as they accept their "government" medicare and social security!!
Stuart & Robert Wyman-Cahall
Las Vegas, NV 89142

Yup, learning to cut and paste my thoughts on any issue is one of the GREATEST inventions ever!
As long as it's relevant to the topic at hand and it's thought out, it doesn't mean that it's less sincere. These are my experiances, I stand by them.
I certainly hope that we'll wise up as a country and get our priorities straight.
We're getting ripped off with our billions of taxpayer dollars lining the pockets of criminals, while hard workng TAX PAYING citizens go bankrupt and are denied access to health care when we get sick!
Stuart & Robert Wyman-Cahall
Las Vegas, NV 89142

Robert and I have been fortunate to travel and when we do we always ask questions of our tour guides.
On a recent trip to Northern Europe, Amsterdam specifically, we asked our tour guide about their social services system.
She smiled at us Americans on the bus and explained to us how their taxes fund their health and education systems. Needless to say there was a gasp on the bus when she proclaimed, still smiling, that they pay 37% of their income in taxes!
Then she went on to explain how when their children pull better than average grades in school, the student doesn't have to go to a bank and BORROW MONEY FROM THE BANK TO FUND THEIR EDUCATION!! Thats right, if they pull the grades they don't come out of college in debt!
Their helath care system is ranked as one of the finest in the world. BUT HERE'S THE CLINCHER:
She asked us what she thought WE paid in taxes to our government! She explained that although she understood that an American's taxes may vary from state to state the average american PAYS APPROX. 34% of our income in fees and taxes!!!
Then she gingerly asked why we didn't feel ripped off (my words) paying all that money and getting so little in return.
You could see the reflective, almost stupid look on us traveler's faces as we absorbed what she had just said to us!
Sometimes they know more about us than we know about ourseves!!
Oh, and by the way, for all of you so concerned about budget busting... correct me if I'm wrong..but aren't we about to invest a COUPLE MORE BILLION DOLLARS to pay off crooks in Afghanistan to do a little "nation building"? BILLIONS, upon BILLIONS of our dollars!!!
How dumbed down have we become?!!
Stuart & Robert Wyman-Cahall
Las Vegas, NV 89142

Everyone here acknowledges that Boyd is hurting by not having any income revenue from the strip.
I still contend that Boyd has a GREAT oppertunity in purchasing the almost completed Fontainbleu, renaming it the Stardust, and appeal to the middle market consumer who won't fork out 200 bucks a night to party and play in Vegas.
One poster here wrote that Echelon is half finished....I DON"T THINK SO!!!
Tear down the sticks of Echelon, open the new Stardust (Fountainbleu) accross the street for pennies on the dollar and call it a day! The old Stardust, as nostalgic as it was, needed more than just a sprucing up.
They may even have enough left in their line of credit, (2 billion according to this article) to make a play for some of Station's assets.
Stuart & Robert Wyman-Cahall
Las Vegas, NV 89142

Boyd gaming should finance the completion...rename it the Stardust, sell the property accross the street (the barely started and stalled Echelon) and call it a day.
Boyd could use a strip presence, and the Stardust has a brand name that could be marketed to middle market vacationers, something very lacking on the strip.
Stuart & Robert Wyman-Cahall
Las Vegas, NV 89142