Mayor Of Las Vegas Upset With Obama..........

I don't blame them for being upset. Las Vegas DEPENDS on tourist and conventions for their economy. The last thing they want is the president of the country telling people NOT to go there or criticizing companies or people who do. If the tourist and conventions stop coming...think of all the jobs that will cost people there? Hotel workers, waiters, taxi drivers,casino workers... average folks just trying to get by in this economy got kicked in the teeth by the president. I live in a tourist area.A lot of jobs depend on the tourist coming every year. If Obama got on TV and told people to stop coming here....the people here would be up in arms. We have lost a lot of jobs already. Mom and pop shops are diappearing left and right. We NEED people to come here. We depend on them to live. It was not smart or even nice of Obama to say it (more than once even) about Las Vegas...but it is not an impeachable offense. I do think he needs to apologize though.

Obama is 100% correct, and if Vegas doesn't like it, then to damn bad. Do you think that during the great depression the president told people to go spend your money on gambling, don't worry about saving money? I understand the people of Vegas are hurting, but you did VERY well in the last 8 years, did you really think that was never going to end? By the way, I don't have much faith in the people of Nevada. I remember our former idiot of a vice president tell the people of Nevada that if Bush was elected, they wouldn't store any nuclear waste in the Yucca mountains. Can you tell me where all of the nations nuclear waste is stored today? And you idiots voted for the men that bold-faced LIED to you TWICE!!!!!!!!!!! I won't hold my breathe when people from Nevada make more idol threats, your history speaks for itself!!!

OK, the President shouldn't have singled out Las Vegas but is it REALLY horrible advice to parents that they shouldn't use their kids' college money to gamble with? Somehow I think if a nice, conservative Republican had said the same thing the mayor may not have been happy but many of the same people who are having a fit now would be applauding them. I say, much ado about nothing! "He's going to do every thing he can to get Obama kicked out of office"... Like what and on what grounds? Someone can't "start the impeachment process" over some silly statement someone didn't like! Annie

Frankly, this is a big fat NON-story. If you're low on cash you should not gamble. Saving for your kid's college is better than gambling in a casino where the odds are stacked against you. The fact is, Vegas gets a lot of their money from people dumb enough to think they can beat the house. Telling people to get their priorities straight and stop gambling is NOT a bad thing.

This is really very funny, all the President has done is doom Harry Reid's reelection bid, there goes another Obama buddy down the drain.

In our country, I am one of the anti politics. Because of this, I am not voting during election because my belief about the improvement of one country is not base from the leadership of a president but base on the unity of the people. Even if a one person is good in leadership if the peoples are fighting to each other, nothing will happen. Regarding to this situation, I advice that don't do anything to your president.

Last year Obama said about corporate executives "You can’t get corporate jets. You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer’s dime". Las Vegas suffered a huge loss of income as many companies, large and small, cancelled conferences and junkets to Las Vegas for fear of being singled out by the administration. This year, Obama says "You don't go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don't blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you're trying to save for college. You prioritize. You make tough choices." Harry Reid has objected to his comments, John Ensign has objected. The governor of Nevada has objected as well as the mayor of Las Vegas. Obama can't help himself though, this is his style. The problem is that Obama builds or tries to build his base of support through the most simplistic approaches to complex issues. He tries to create "bad guys" in the minds of voters. The "fat cats" of Wall Street, the "party of 'no'" the rich who waste their money in Vegas while you struggle to pay bills. Rather than deal in the complexity of the issues, the true problems facing the economy and rather than develop real positions on issues and be able to explain economic policy, he creates bogeymen that he can hold up to the public as the guys responsible for all their woes. It's a process of carving out enemies and setting us one against another. The reality is, of course, that it's this administration's failure to properly deal with the problems, and to take responsibility for them. We don't need him to find scapegoats. Las Vegas is not to blame for the soaring unemployment rate. People should look at the relationship between unemployment in a state and the tax burden on both individuals and businesses. It is the reason that New Hampshire, with low taxes and a friendly business climate has an unemployment rate that is 3 points lower than the rest of the country and why Rhode Island with an extraordinary tax rate has an unemployment rate 3 points higher than the national average.