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Gogo, anyone who says the "Obama Administration is the most anti-business Administration in history" either doesn't remember the FDR administration or is simply mad that we might go to a FAIR, progressive taxation system where those who are able to pay taxes (individuals and corporations) actually get to PAY them.

I'm all for Hugo Chavez-style nationalization of corporate assets in the name of creating jobs, but I KNOW that's a non-starter even for Democrats. It would work, but it's a non-starter. I guess we'll just have to settle for double-digit unemployment for another 20 years.

I used to live in Phoenix but relocated a few months ago to Austin, Texas. I thought I knew a thing or two about crazy right wing politicians, but this Sharron Angle woman is absolutely NUTS. Nevada would do the nation a huge disservice by electing her. Her views are fascist at best, and to find out her husband is drawing a Federal pension and she has these views...that's beyond belief.

Nevada, please do NOT elect this wacko lady to the Senate. How anyone could think Harry Reid sucks is beyond me. But I tend to think the Democrats are too far to the right, and that they need to put the screws to Big Business even more than what they are.

Gogowhitesox, you seem to also be an extreme right wing wacko, and your views do NOT represent the majority of Nevadans I have met over the years.

1. Conservatives have NO idea what "socialism" really is. Socialism means total government seizure of major business and worker control of those businesses, like what Hugo Chavez is doing with some industries in Venezuela.

2. I am of the opinion that we need MORE government takeover of greedy big businesses that hoard money and sit on cash and refuse to spend and refuse to hire - NOT less.

3. I am of the opinion that we need more "welfare" in this country, NOT less. People need the "helping hand", especially now.

4. I am of the opinion that the sad state of the national economy is NOT the fault of liberals, but of conservatives of BOTH parties who pandered to Big Business and their aversion to paying their fair share of taxes, and building up cash reserves to fatten the "golden parachutes".

5. I am of the opinion that if you are a small business, I can see getting some tax breaks to help you get off the ground, but if you can't afford to hire people AND pay a fair share of taxes, you cannot afford to be in business. PERIOD.

6. Big Business and the capitalist class are grossly undertaxed. The tax rate was a LOT higher in the '50s and '60s - our period of greatest overall prosperity as a nation, a time when a factory worker could buy a house in the suburbs and afford to have his wife stay at home and raise the kids.

6a. Real wages have plummeted since the 1970's because greedy Big business decided the people weren't good enough to pay them a decent wage - let's replace 'em with robots and cheap labor from Mexico and China so we can get richer and richer. And let's get a GOP president in there like Reagan who'll cut taxes by 2/3rds. We'll be RICH!!!! They'll be poor!!!

I could go on and on, but the conservative movement is the reason for our mess and the conservative movement MUST be stopped DEAD in its tracks before we all starve to death. This is serious.

I was planning on moving from Phoenix to Austin for most of the fall of 2009, but knew I had to wait until my apartment lease was up in April to relocate. In the meanwhile, for the previous couple of years, I was enjoying playing the slots on a semi-regular basis in the tribal casinos on the outskirts of Phoenix and Scottsdale. I won some, lost a lot more, but it was too much fun to completely stop.

I took a day off in February to play the slots, lost my rent money, and said enough is enough, I bought an Amtrak ticket with what little I had left, abandoned all my stuff, resigned from a $40k/yr job via e-mail, went immediately to Austin, stayed in the Salvation Army in downtown Austin with crack addicts, drunks and ex-cons for three months and finally have a job again at half my old salary, with no extra money - or desire - to make the five-hour drive to Shreveport/Bossier.

Sounds like I am one of the lucky ones, but I should have known better - I moved to Phoenix after four months in Vegas.

I used to live in Phoenix, moved to Austin early this year. Casinos are not in Texas (yet) but I can always make the drive to Shreveport/Bossier. Why fly to Vegas when other, more customer-friendly gaming destinations are popping up around the country???

Las Vegas needs a real light rail system geared first towards the needs of the locals. The tourists will still ride if it's convenient. Use the existing railroad corridor alongside the 15.