Things Is Bad All Over

[Gannon]

I just drove to Atlanta for work, and arrived to learn that in my client's tony NW neighborhood they have been having regular home invasions and burglaries for the past six months...very brazen crimes.

Then I learned that the day I arrived my cousin's son had his car stolen from near a university downtown...losing his military uniform and cash needed for this weekend's exercises.

I know it is just my personal experience, but that is all I can really know.


I wasn't ready to bump into all this bad news in Atlanta...

[Crumbled_pavement]

Truthfully, that is all the Detroiters who have migrated to Atlanta over the last 20 years. Native ATLiens would never participate in that madness!

[Sstashmoo]

Oh but this is just a Detroit problem. "Why do you guys stay there?"

Things are tough all over...

[Johnlodge]

I was in Vegas and The Venetian hotel/casino was laying off 250 people. There is a half built mega complex, a joint project between MGM and Dubai World on the strip with a 200 million a month loan payment that is teetering on work stoppages each month as they struggle to pay for it. If it were to be uncompleted, it would probably be the biggest unfinished ruin since the Pyongyang hotel. I also noticed the news casters saying Nevada ranks last in pretty much every category as far as education.

Things are bad everywhere.

[rb336]

I wasn't ready to bump into all this bad news in Atlanta...

Atlanta has always had a pretty high crime rate
(it is also high on my list of over-rated places)

[ccbatson]

Vegas is really falling on hard times...Just then, Obama gives them a kick in the stomach.

Either Obama is malicious, or stupid, or both.

[Islandman]

Nine people just got let go at my job here in Charlotte, and they were full time employees. Kind of scary when you're just a contractor. We are usually the first to go.

[Johnlodge]

Vegas is really falling on hard times...Just then, Obama gives them a kick in the stomach.

Either Obama is malicious, or stupid, or both.

What did Obama do to Vegas?

I do know two things that are contributing to the problem:

1) It was the fastest growing city in the U.S. for awhile, and a lot of the growth was investment based. Hence all the foreclosures when the market turns.
2) Being a tourist city in a recession is never good.

[Flanders]

Vegas is really falling on hard times...Just then, Obama gives them a kick in the stomach.

Either Obama is malicious, or stupid, or both.

No, it must be the resulting battle between fiscal conservatism (capitalism) and social conservatism (fundamentalism) Vegas is a fine example of unfettered free-market principles to fiscal conservatives...but it is also a 21st century version of Sodom and Gomorrah to bible-thumping moral -majority social conservatives. Such a perplexing dilemma!!

:rolleyes:

[Gistok]

Johnlodge... you know better than to ask Cc to get into the messy task of specifics....

He just hates Obama... period.

[oladub]

I don't know what this has to do with Obama either but for the record, Obama took Nevada 55-42% over McCain and voted in two Democrats out of three house races in 2008. It is also the state with the highest percentage of urban residents.

[Jimaz]

Rural Nevadans are sunbleached bones and they're not supposed to vote. :D

[ccbatson]

What did Obama do to Vegas? Told everyone not to visit there. Unprecedented coming from a sitting President. Unprofessional at the very least.

[ccbatson]

Once again, he (Obama) is too smart to goof like that. He is a socialist railing against Vegas as an example of an exercise of individual property rights and capitalism. Worse, he is doing it from the privilege of his office...an abuse.

Mind you, I am no fan of gambling, or Vegas for that matter, but I am a huge fan of freedom and liberty.

[Flanders]

Why don't you be very specific about how "property rights" are being trampled?

Why don't you look up an academic definition of "socialism" and please tell me how that applies to President Obama?

LOL! A 3% increase in the taxes of the upper 1% bracket, while all the other brackets get a decrease is NOT socialism by any reasonable definition.

In a perfect capitalistic Batsonia, (objectivists' world) any employed labor who still hold jobs that unfortunately can not be offshored or outsourced due to physical necessity, would pay any or all of the required taxes to support very limited conservative government, provide for the national defense, staff the miltary, and everything else would be privatized. Only those who are native-born, own property and/or pay taxes would be permitted to register to vote. Those citizens who can not or will not accept the mantle of "personal responsiblity" placed on their shoulders at the age of 18, may have their citizenship by birth or by oath revoked and given a choice of unpaid hard labor with lifetime imprisonment or be ordered to leave the country, by force if necessary.

[Johnlodge]

Once again, he (Obama) is too smart to goof like that. He is a socialist railing against Vegas as an example of an exercise of individual property rights and capitalism. Worse, he is doing it from the privilege of his office...an abuse.

Mind you, I am no fan of gambling, or Vegas for that matter, but I am a huge fan of freedom and liberty.

Are you suggesting government and business are more separate in Vegas than elsewhere? That is to laugh. Try the opposite.

[ejames01]

ccbatson,

Please stop lying.

[d.mcc]

ccbatson,

Please stop lying.

Please stop talking...CC...not you James

[otter]

Gannon,

What neighborhood (or near what roads) does your client live in? Just curious.

O.

[Gannon]

Peachtree Indusrial Highway, about ten miles northeast of the I-285 loop...I think roughly twenty-five minutes NE of town, like our Bloomfields only the houses are much closer together and they have real hills.

[4real]

Things are very bad in Georgia,
The state is closing the Jimmy Carter information center, the least visited in the state.
A place you could stop, take a crap in his honor, get a pack of nuts and a map.

[otter]

OK, sounds like Duluth, more or less. I thought you were talking about the north side of the city itself. I largely grew up in Atlanta, so I naturally wondered.

O.

[ccbatson]

JL...taxes are lower in Nevada, but you are right, regulation of the gambling industry is obscene.

EJames...what lies are you referring to?

[Johnlodge]

JL...taxes are lower in Nevada, but you are right, regulation of the gambling industry is obscene.

Nevada also has more federally-owned land than any other state. 85% of Nevada is owned by the Federal Government.

[ccbatson]

Eh...useless desert, doesn't much matter.

[ejames01]

JL...taxes are lower in Nevada, but you are right, regulation of the gambling industry is obscene.

EJames...what lies are you referring to?

Your lie about Nevada/Obama. You know exactly what he meant. No one in their right mind would think that failing companies should be sending their people on expensive "vacations" while they are being "bailed out".

[ccbatson]

Right mind or not...this illustrates the folly of socializing private industry.