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Member Section => Politics & RKBA => Topic started by: twyacht on February 02, 2010, 08:04:33 PM
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Down in the polls, trying to utilize any and all final straws in his limited cricket chirping re-election bid, it's of course,
Senator Harry Reid. Mr. Arrogance himself, Mr. "The war is lost, the surge has failed" :
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm182/twyacht/005985543.jpg)
http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/US-Obama-Las-Vegas/2010/02/02/id/348775
Lawmakers Take Issue With Obama's Las Vegas Remark
Tuesday, 02 Feb 2010 06:27 PM
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Nevada lawmakers are taking umbrage at President Barack Obama's reference to Las Vegas when explaining how the country needs to make some tough choices on spending.
The Nevada economy has been among the hardest hit over the past two years, and officials are sensitive to remarks that could discourage spending there.
In remarks at a town hall event Tuesday, Obama said that when times are tough, people tighten their belts and don't blow a bunch of cash in Las Vegas when trying to save up for college.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, says Obama needs to lay off Las Vegas and, as he put it, "stop making it the poster child for where people shouldn't be spending their money."
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Can Reid and Murtha be set adrift yet?
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"In remarks at a town hall event Tuesday, Obama said that when times are tough, people tighten their belts and don't blow a bunch of cash in Las Vegas when trying to save up for college."
It's the first TRUE thing this azzhole has said. But it certainly undercuts his own comments about "Spending us into prosperity".
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TW, Murtha was hospitalized yesterday for complications resutling from his recent gall bladder surgery. Now, I don't want to wish anyone evil, but if he could just stay sick enough to have to resign... Well, that wouldn't be so bad. And that pic of Harry, looks like he just stepped in a big pile of dog-pelosi. LOL
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TW, Murtha was hospitalized yesterday for complications resutling from his recent gall bladder surgery. Now, I don't want to wish anyone evil, but if he could just stay sick enough to have to resign... Well, that wouldn't be so bad. And that pic of Harry, looks like he just stepped in a big pile of dog-pelosi. LOL
Reid is a big pile of dog-pelosi.
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This is an interesting local news clip.
http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/8178/1288202
Sounds like the mayor ain't pleased.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, says Obama needs to lay off Las Vegas and, as he put it, "stop making it the poster child for where people shouldn't be spending their money."
OMG, OMG... I actually agree with obama. places like lost wages is the last place people should be spending thier money.
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He puts his foot in his mouth and the news media lets him by with it time after time.
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OMG, OMG... I actually agree with obama. places like lost wages is the last place people should be spending thier money.
While I don't disagree, you're missing the point. Inasmuch as it is NOT Obama's money, it's really none of his damn business WHERE people spend it. I mean, hell, it's not fiscally responsible to fly your wife away to New York for a date night, either, but at least he used his own money. No, wait......NO HE DIDN'T, HE USED OUR MONEY!!!!! And when this country is in such sad financial shape, too. I guess maybe ObaMao is really not in any position to lecture people about how they spend money.
Of course, it's ALWAYS easier to spend somebody else's money than it is your own.
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Down in the polls, trying to utilize any and all final straws in his limited cricket chirping re-election bid, it's of course,
Senator Harry Reid. Mr. Arrogance himself, Mr. "The war is lost, the surge has failed" :
(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm182/twyacht/005985543.jpg)
http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/US-Obama-Las-Vegas/2010/02/02/id/348775
Lawmakers Take Issue With Obama's Las Vegas Remark
Tuesday, 02 Feb 2010 06:27 PM
Article Font Size
Nevada lawmakers are taking umbrage at President Barack Obama's reference to Las Vegas when explaining how the country needs to make some tough choices on spending.
The Nevada economy has been among the hardest hit over the past two years, and officials are sensitive to remarks that could discourage spending there.
In remarks at a town hall event Tuesday, Obama said that when times are tough, people tighten their belts and don't blow a bunch of cash in Las Vegas when trying to save up for college.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, says Obama needs to lay off Las Vegas and, as he put it, "stop making it the poster child for where people shouldn't be spending their money."
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Can Reid and Murtha be set adrift yet?
I just realized who Reid reminds me of in the photo above:
(http://monstergirl.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/american-gothic-large4.jpg)
Except Reid looks like he just dropped a big Pelosi in his shorts.
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I'd say a LITTLE less American Gothic, and a little more Hannibal Lecture.
Hello Nancy, I've been waiting for you. :o
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OMG, OMG... I actually agree with obama. places like lost wages is the last place people should be spending thier money.
Not to be antagonistic TAB, but I think we need spending, but spending on something other than the "entertainment" type industries. Spending will be most beneficial when it results in producing useful products and services that generate additional jobs. The "entertainment" industries do spend some money on goods and services that are from more utilitarian and useful lines but the percentage spent is low. It is more beneficial to pay a guy to flip cards, to flip burgers or to roll steel and pour concrete?
Creating economic wealth for the people by investing in products and services that spurn additional development and investment can be a good thing. Government is good a big projects that has benefit...building dams that allow for electrical generation, building bridges over rivers, providing a military for the common defense, providing a stable currency (oops...), funding research that does not have an immediate tangible result yet provides information to people so that the knowledge can be turned into a benefit for all...
Taking those $$$'s and giving them to people who don't want to work for a living removes investment both in the public and private entities. The goverment takes the private dollars and reallocates the public dollars to vote buying welfare and in doing so removes our ability to spend our dollars on building a business, or designing a better tractor or whatever and also takes the money from beneficial public works projects that benefit us all. Sort of like New Orleans and the levee board money squandered to buy votes by providing very excellent dead head jobs instead of building 50 foot high levees....