Tag Archives: Las Vegas

Feb 19 2010

“I’ll do everything I can to give him the boot,” said Mayor Oscar Goodman

Goodman is still smarting from comments Obama made suggesting that people saving money for college shouldn’t blow in it Las Vegas.

The comments sparked a firestorm of criticism as the city struggles to find its footing amid a two-year meltdown of foreclosures, bankruptcies and unemployment.

Goodman has said that Obama is no friend to Vegas and would not be welcomed there if he visits.

“I’ll do everything I can to give him the boot,” Goodman said. “This president is a real slow learner.”

Goodman told KTNV that he was a bit surprised to receive an invitation after his widely reported reaction to Obama’s comments. But the invitation hasn’t softened his anger.

“We are hurting, we have people in foreclosures, we have people having a hard time feeding their families and we can’t stand to have a flippant statement made,” Goodman told the news channel. SOURCE

The anti-business Obama has did it again! I sure hope he keeps campaigning for Larry Reid as it will help both of them right out of Washington D.C.

Mar 16 2009

Wage Rules Attached To Stimulus Funds Mean Fewer Jobs (81% of Workers Against Unions)

State governments that contract jobs paid for with stimulus money will be required to pay workers on construction projects union wages rather than market rates good news for workers but good news for not as many of them.

Higher costs per project mean fewer projects completed.

Los Angeles County officials who received $8 million in Community Development Block Grant money to weatherize homes for low-income people said they typically bid the job low and pay about $15 an hour for a worker to caulk windows. However, under union scale, that job pays $25 an hour and $5 in benefits, so instead of repairing 100 homes, they might do 50 homes for the same price.

Elsewhere, the union wage for a plumber in Long Island is $45 an hour, the market rate is $30. In Las Vegas, the Davis-Bacon wage for a glass worker is $57 an hour, a job the Nevada State Housing division currently pays $15 to do. Read More

Obama could care less about what the people of America wants.

81 Percent of Workers Against Unions

A Rasmussen Reports survey finds 81 percent of non-union workers do not want union representation. That compares to just 9 percent of workers who say they do want to join a union.

Even among workers whose employers are laying off employees, interest in joining a union is low: Only 9 percent want to be members of a union.Read More

These Obama projects aren’t making enough jobs to start lowering the number of unemployment, and when the money runs out what then? Has anyone seen any of the Obama construction projects emblems signs up in their area of the country? I sure have not, but maybe if I ran down to the welfare office I would see a Obama project sign on the door! Obama does not seem to care what the people want..he keeps on his same path to bankrupting America!

LINKS:

(1) Obama-bots…activate! Form of…a “Pledge Project Canvass!”

Feb 19 2009

Vegas Mayor Demands Apology From Obama

Sin City’s mayor wants President Obama to apologize for saying companies shouldn’t visit Las Vegas on the taxpayer’s dime.

“What’s a better place, as I say, than for them to come here,” Goodman told KLAS-TV. “And to change their mind and to go someplace else and to cancel — and at the suggestion of the president of the United States — that’s outrageous.”

Obama made the remarks Monday during a town hall meeting in Elkhart, Ind., where the president traveled to muster public support for economic stimulus legislation.

“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,” Obama said.

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I will have to agree with Obama on this one, unless that is Obama makes an Apology which he should not!