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Obama is about as welcome as toe nail fungus in Nevada, yet he keeps coming back.

Every time he campaigns for Dingy Harry Harry drops 5 points in the polls. He needs to visit more often.


http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/welcome-...-98095489.html

EDITORIAL: Welcome back, Mr. President

Your economic policies suck

President Obama is in Las Vegas, where he's holding an invitation-only fundraiser for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, among other closed-door events.

The president is welcome; he should be courteously received.

That said, it's too bad the president isn't planning to mingle with average Nevadans and visit our shopping centers incognito, to get a look at what his economic policies have really wrought -- what a city with 14.1 percent (official, understated) unemployment looks like, under an administration whose main economic goals seem to be the punishment and prevention of capital formation and business growth.

The president might have gotten an earful, here at ground zero of the Great Recession.

While "Obamacare" doesn't go into full effect for four more years, taxes to support it kick in this fall, starting with a 10 percent tanning salon tax (why?) and a "1099" tax that's projected to suck an additional $17 billion out of private businesses in the next decade by making them file "1099" snitch forms for virtually everyone to whom they pay a few hundred dollars.

Is that likely to help Nevada's economy rebound, President Obama? Won't it drive even more business "under the table," where workers have less protection, illegal aliens thrive and many continue to draw welfare while paying no taxes at all?

Speaking of illegals, your administration just sued our neighbor to the southeast, Arizona, for enacting a state law that instructs local police to help enforce federal immigration law -- despite the fact the Supreme Court ruled in 1976 that federal immigration law doesn't intend "to preclude even harmonious state regulation."

What's the political message of this cynical lawsuit? That some 12 million illegals should feel safe continuing to occupy jobs that U.S. citizens have flocked to fill whenever they've had a chance, presumably. Just wait for the Democrats to grant you amnesty, invite in your extended family and send you all Democratic voter registration cards -- as soon as the heat of November's mid-term elections has passed -- is that it?

Is that supposed to help Nevada's unemployed and the local businesses they can no longer patronize?

[Abebpabeniemo]

This is odd. I wonder why the editorial didn't mention the Nevada company, Aminox, that received $6 million in tax credits for a new solar power generating facility in Las Vegas Valley? The investors are shooting for a 2011 development to take advantage of even more federal tax dollars. Clean, renewable energy and jobs are exactly what Pres. Obama's stimulus package aims to acheive.

I say it's odd the editorial didn't mention this because the article appeared in its own paper, in the same issue. Oh, one more thing, in order to clear the way for some of this project to be constructed on federal land, two politicians got together and submitted a bill to Congress. The two Nevada leaders were Rep. Dean Heller (R) and Sen. Harry Reid (D). Sounds like the editorial writer has a bad case of Regisitis because well, that economic news doesn't suck.