{"id":11148,"date":"2010-02-03T15:14:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T22:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11148"},"modified":"2010-02-03T15:14:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T22:14:30","slug":"president-obama-to-las-vegas-residents-screw-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11148\/president-obama-to-las-vegas-residents-screw-you\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama To Las Vegas Residents: &#8220;Screw You!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2010\/feb\/02\/obama-dont-blow-cash-vegas-during-tough-times\/\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> told a New Hampshire town hall meeting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honoluluadvertiser.com\/article\/20100119\/NEWS04\/1190316\/-1\/localnewsfront\" target=\"_blank\">times are tough<\/a>, you <a href=\"http:\/\/gopleader.gov\/News\/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=168603\" target=\"_blank\">tighten your belts<\/a>. You don&#8217;t go buying a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tavissmiley\/2829623810\/\" target=\"_blank\">boat<\/a> when you can barely pay your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=10513\" target=\"_blank\">mortgage<\/a>. You don&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/05\/27\/presidential-fundraising-trips-leave-taxpayers-hefty-tab\/\" target=\"_blank\">blow a bunch of cash in Vegas<\/a> when you&#8217;re trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/pub_display.php?pub_id=3344\" target=\"_blank\">save for college<\/a>. You <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/POLITICS\/02\/01\/us.budget.guantanamo\/\" target=\"_blank\">prioritize<\/a>. You make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/watch\/66318\/saturday-night-live-presidential-address\" target=\"_blank\">tough choices<\/a> and it&#8217;s time your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagw.org\/reports\/pig-book\/2009\/\" target=\"_blank\">government did the same<\/a>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amazing, I wonder how Obama talks about Vegas when he&#8217;s not on TV?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this is why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/renewsblog\/2010\/01\/18\/hud-disses-las-vegas-housing-stimulus-bailout\/\" target=\"_blank\">HUD Dissed Las Vegas In The Housing Stimulus Lottery<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.associatedcontent.com\/article\/2638649\/obama_to_announce_highspeed_rail_line.html\" target=\"_blank\">Florida got their high speed Disney World Train<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/blogs\/ralstons-flash\/2010\/jan\/28\/federal-transportation-department-maglev-backers-y\/\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas didn&#8217;t<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, at least we know exactly what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvrj.com\/news\/41078067.html\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas can expect<\/a> when the President speaks about &#8220;Jobs&#8221; being his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/watch\/99945\/saturday-night-live-obama-address\" target=\"_blank\">top priority <\/a>in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>And the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktnv.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=11922695\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor&#8217;s reaction<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/media.lasvegassun.com\/media\/assets\/swf\/mvc_video_2.1.swf\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"sunplayer\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"middle\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"&amp;debug=false&amp;preroll=false&amp;share=false&amp;embed=false&amp;download=false&amp;width=500&amp;height=250&amp;mainColor=0xFF9A03&amp;videopath_flv=http:\/\/cdn.video.lasvegassun.com\/media\/video\/2010\/02\/20100202_mayor_reax_lvs.flv&amp;videopath_photo=http:\/\/media.lasvegassun.com\/media\/img\/videothumbs\/2010\/02\/02\/20100202_mayor_reax_lvs.jpg&amp;embedded=true\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/jun\/01\/curl-cost-nyc-weekend\/\" target=\"_blank\">blowing a bunch of money on trips<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama told a New Hampshire town hall meeting: \u201cWhen times are tough, you tighten your belts. You don&#8217;t go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don&#8217;t blow a bunch of cash in Vegas when you&#8217;re trying to save for college. You prioritize. You make tough choices and it&#8217;s time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6950,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6950\/the-bad-news-obamas-housing-relief-plan-is-a-giveaway-to-lenders-not-homeowners-the-worse-news-it-wont-work-anyway\/","url_meta":{"origin":11148,"position":0},"title":"The bad news: Obama&#8217;s housing relief plan is a giveaway to lenders, not homeowners. 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Like this: \"Bill Clinton might have been the America's first black president, but Barack Obama is the nation's first black Kennedy.\" From this you should not surmise that I am for John McCain. I find all three of our current maladies to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Casual Friday&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Casual Friday","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/casual-friday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10209,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10209\/voters-discover-a-cure-for-obamania\/","url_meta":{"origin":11148,"position":3},"title":"Voters discover a cure for Obamania?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 4, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I actually feel kind of bad for the should-have-known-better folks who voted for Obama. It was obvious to me last fall that he was a false-flag candidate, a stone liberal masquerading as a centrist. 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