Las Vegas Tourism Is Down

 And Obama Helped

by Vegas Taxi Driver
March 13, 2009

Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs said that "I don't think the President said don't go to Las Vegas," on March 12, 2009. But On February 8, 2009, while trying to gain support for his grandiose economic recovery stimulus spending and tax-cut package, Barack Obama said in Elkhart, Indiana, that companies “can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer’s dime.” (His trip to Indiana was also on the taxpayers' dime.) Immediately following Obama's comment companies started canceling meetings and conventions in Las Vegas worth millions of dollars of business. Since then, nobody knows how many meetings and conventions were not scheduled in Las Vegas that would have been, and were diverted to other cities instead.

Obama singled out Las Vegas, no other cities or destinations, in rebuking businesses for having meetings. Now large companies don't dare schedule meetings in Las Vegas right now because image is very important for large companies, and they do not want to be perceived as spending money foolishly, and the President of the United States said that it was bad for companies to do business in Las Vegas if they are receiving money from the government, and that means that he must think that having meetings in Las Vegas is excessive and bad for All companies and is a waste of money for companies, and corporations do not want their shareholders thinking that they are spending money excessively or foolishly. He is not man enough to correct his statement, which was wrong and harmful and needs a correction, and it is time for Americans and Las Vegans to quit giving Obama breaks. If Bush had said the same thing, every newspaper and writer and politician in Las Vegas would be demanding a retraction by the President. Obama has never had a real job and is not acting like he cares about employees in Las Vegas who he is hurting with his careless statement. I am not against Obama and I do not want him to fail, but it would be nice if it was reciprocal. I think that what he is doing for the American economy is better than Bushonomics, but that does not do any good for Las Vegas if Obama says things that destroy the Las Vegas economy. He could make a statement today himself that would retract his mistaken perceptions about business in Las Vegas.

by Vegas Taxi Driver
March 13, 2009

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