President Obama is a slow learner according to Las Vegas mayor, Oscar Goodman.
Obama told an audience, “You don’t blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you’re trying to save for college. You prioritize. You make tough choices.”
I have only one problem with this controversy. The President was right. You don’t blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you’re trying to save for college. You prioritize. You make tough choices.
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He should follow his own advice. Seems like all he does is blow cash..My cash …your cash…our kids cash….Lets see…
Clinton…tax and spend
Bush……borrow and spend
Obama..PRINT and SPEND and SPEND and for what?? Nothing that helps the private sector…Only bigger government and payoffs to those that “brung him”…
Things will NOT improve in this country until Obama is out of office or he changes course to a more business friendy climate…
Hope you like being poor…
Warren:
What you are saying seems more true with each passing day. My husband and I voted for Mr Obama. We thought he would be different. But a year into his term he seems more like Mr Carter.
Unfortunately, the policies he is pursuing are for growing government at the expense of the all important Private Sector. It seems to me, if you are in favor of a big government, you’d better have a viable private sector to pay the bills, for government creates next to nothing but has the ability to take away everything.
Oh.. He’s different alright…
We all make mistake..
Please don’t make the same one again!
Todd
Fool us once….
I will agree Obama is right in his rhetoric, but do you notice that he can only preach but never follow his own preaching. His priorities has not been helping the economy or the middle class. He might be saying it sweetly, but his actions have been hard on all small businesses. Cutting capitol gain to small businesses do nothing for them, most of them claim profits as personal income. If their personal income is over $250k then they will be tax at higher rate. This in turn will prevent them from growing and hire more people to pay the tax revenue. More scares are on the horizon for small businesses, the current health care reform, cap & trade, and card check, all of which will not help the economy and the job growth.
People in Nevada need to understand that their trademark on gambling, entertainment, and wonderful year-round weather cuts both ways. They are the band-aid, or jello of resorts and they benefit greatly for that status. Do they really think people said, “Oh, the President says not to go to Vegas, I’ll blow my money in Atlantic City instead?” I really wish they had more intelligent things to talk about, but, sadly, they probably don’t.
&Lynn
Every thinking, involved person knew what Mr Obama was saying. and has nothing to do with gamboling. per se…
He was trying to help Harry Reid re-invent Harry Reid by (Mr Obama) becoming the focus of derision. Mr Reid could then stick up for Vegas, enhancing his tarnished and corrupt image with Nevada voters.
It’s a long shot….Kinda like snake eyes ….
Todd
Don’t worry, fool us once…
I am sorry to see such a dishonest discussion of this issue. But it’s par for the course here.
It’s pretty stupid to blame Obama for too much spending when we have Republican senators like Shelby of Alabama who recently put a hold on ALL of Obama’s nominees to head government agencies. The reason for the hold? Shelby wanted to make sure that more government spending on certain Defense programs was done in Alabama. Explain to us how Obama is to blame for that.
Bush left Obama the largest deficit one president has ever left another – $1.5 trillion. The deficit in Obama’s latest budget is larger – $1.6 trillion. What’s the reason for blaming Obama for all this – is it ignorance or lies?
Obama made the decision to bail out GM and Chrysler last year. The bailout he agreed to cost around $100 billion for both. When GM submitted its first bailout plan to him, he rejected it as being too optimistic. He demanded a plan with less rosy estimates and also demanded that CEO Wagoner leave the company. He did this even though it meant that his friends at the UAW would have to agree to BIGGER layoffs at GM than in the rosy plan Wagoner submitted. Explain to me how this shows he is a captive of the unions.
I have to give the Right wingers credit – not for honesty, but for being very consistent liars.
I have to agree that many of those who yell at Obama for excessive spending and deficits are extremely dishonest.
In his place, I would call out Republican leaders who complain about deficits by asking how much of the federal money spent in their states they would like to see cut.
Rep. Michele Bachmann is a good example. She has been on every Right wing talk radio program that would have her, complaining about deficits. On none of those programs does she mention that her family farm gets federal subsidies in the neighborhood of $25,000.00 per year. How much of that would she like to see cut? Three guesses.
Scott Brown spent his entire Senate campaign yelling about spending. Fine. Massachusetts has more than 50,000 federal employees. How many of those jobs would he like to see cut in order to reduce the deficit?
I am weary of these hypocrites. If they can’t name cuts in their own states they would be willing to make, they should shut their mouths on this subject.
I’m convinced “Hesh” and “HenryCrane” are one and the same individual….
How do I know?
It’s not possible TWO people could be so dumb and ill-informed..
You “two” take the AirAmerica/MSNBC/ WhiteHouse talking points and spew them just like Obama and Gibbs.
Blame everything on a past President who has been gone for over a year, when your “boy” is the most clueless windbag EVER to occupy the Oval Office.
He has done NOTHING right, esp. on the jobs front and the economy in general…People in his own Party are bailing in droves.
Nothing will change for the better until either Obama adopts Conservative policies or leaves office and heads back to corrupt Chicago…
More fifth grade insults from Rafi, another Limbaugh dittohead who thinks patriotism is all about spreading hate and lies. He screams at visitors who post facts and figures but has none of his own to offer, a typical dittohead. The president he supported ran this country into a ditch, and now he screams at Obama for not cleaning up the mess fast enough.
For a long time now people like Rafi have voted for politicians who told them stories that only an idiot would believe: that we can have huge tax cuts without cutting programs voters actually want and without running up a huge debt. It didn’t work under Reagan and didn’t work under Bush, but these pathetic fools still believe it. I’m embarrassed that we have people like him in this country, but when I see how popular Palin is I know a lot of them are still out there.
The main difference I see between conservatives and liberals on this blog and elsewhere is that liberals talk about facts and conservatives just tell lies. During the health care debate last year liberals were talking about whether a public option would affect the deficit while conservatives were yammering about imaginary death panels and socialism. In Britain the conservative party has become more mainstream and practical. Here the conservatives have just gotten weirder and weirder.
The Republicans used to be all about fiscal conservatism and smaller government, but during the six years before 2007 when they had the White House and Congress they threw those traditions out the window and ran the national debt up to an unprecedented height. So what is their campaign slogan going to be this year, “This time we really mean it”? I have to agree that anyone who keeps believing the stories they tell has got to be an idiot.
A year ago, I was depressed about the future of America. Watching television pundits talk about President Obama’s transformative plans for big government, I felt alone, isolated and helpless.
That changed when protests, organized by bloggers, met Obama a year ago in Denver, Colo., Mesa, Ariz., and Seattle, Wash. Then came CNBC talker Rick Santelli’s famous on-air rant on Feb. 19, 2009, which gave the tea-party movement its name.
Tea partiers are still angry at federal deficits, at Washington’s habit of rewarding failure with handouts and punishing success with taxes and regulation, and the general incompetence that has marked the first year of the Obama presidency. But I’m no longer depressed.
There is as much anger at Washington Beltway Repubs, who go along with the democrat agenda as there is at the Obama BigGov agenda.
To me this “go along to get along” attitude, has to stop. Compromise to the liberals is for Repubs to agree to all the nonsense, they, the libs want.
For until this country returns to the “Values of the Founders”, Conservatism, we will face many years of, what Obama and cohorts, have turned into an unnecessary “DEPRESSION”…