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I hope the casinos are correct about a quick rebound for the economy; I don’t want to see the workers laid off. However I don’t think things will get better very soon, fuel is going up and I don’t think it is ever going to come back down. I don’t think our jobs will give us raises that will keep up with the rising cost of gas. Here’s another problem that will slow our recovery, we are a nation of consumers not a nation of producers. Where is our industry it overseas, we don’t make anything that other countries want to buy from us. So how are we going to recover?

First off united777 the airlines offer free rides’ for flying X amounts of flights or miles so it just happens that Las Vegas is a prime destination for a little vacation. I assume that there are a lot of free rides to Hawaii and Florida too. However, everyone is missing the point. Fuel is going up, and it’s not going to come back down. This affects everything; all the essentials of living are going up. Disposable income is gone! It is now spent to get you to work, feed your family, heat or cool your home and hope like hell that your job isn’t paid for by disposable income. Airline tickets have to go up to pay for the fuel increases the problem is that we won’t be able to afford to fly, were not going to have the money to do it. Las Vegas is a luxury, and luxury is one of the first things to go when you’re worried about surviving. Bad times are ahead, I wish you all well.

As with so much in life the rich are preferred over us common folk. But can the rich really sustain the strip all on their own? I don’t know maybe they can, and that’s too bad. I would like to stay on the strip but, I just can’t get by those room rates, $100 - $200 a night rooms sometimes more. First it sure cuts in to the old bankroll, second I didn’t plan to spend that much time in the room. Makes our local Indian casino look a lot more attractive. I can’t help but think that Macau is going to pull a lot of the Asian visitors away. I know that some are saying that this will cultivate more Asians to come to Vegas. How do they figure that will happen I suppose the very rich will still come. But if I was a upper middle class business man why would I spend all those hours flying and all that money for one trip to Las Vegas when I could go 2 or more time to Macau. Vegas better be careful that they don’t price themselves out of business. A lot of states are allowing Tribal Gamming and many are up grading everything and it is costing their costumers about 1/3 of what it is in Las Vegas.