Wynn seems to be locked in to the same talking points that a lot of others are focused on - and like most he's heavy on the sauce and light on the meat. Healthcare costs are GOING to escalate? What have they been doing? I understand that there's a little uncertainty because this time we actually are trying to do something different. There will ALWAYS be some uncertainty when we try something big and new, but we shouldn't let short-term "uncertainty" always carry the day. And that's not to say that the only complaint about HCR is the current uncertainty, but I'm just really tired of hearing that brought up as some reason why business is scared to invest. Business is scared to invest because they don't see people as willing to spend money. People aren't as willing to spend money because their house values went to ****, their credit dried up, and their wages have been stagnant for a couple decades. I just think it's really lazy to blame Obama for everyone feeling bad about the economy. The economy sucks, and it would have sucked a whole lot more had we not dumped way too much money into it. Conversely, our deficit wouldn't be nearly as large, but the economy would surely be a lot worse off. I wish Wynn would have spent 3 hours giving examples so we could see if he has any cheese with his wine.
Has anybody compiled a list of places where "to be determined by a commissioner" is used. I would like to see the context of this.
I know my dad and his wife are on the Scott & White insurance plan and it is going from $900 a month to $1600 a month. Needless to say, my dad is extremely upset. I don't know if this is a result of the new healthcare program but I told him that (cause I knew it would get a rise out of him) and he started to defend the Obamacare.
Probably hurts the casino business a bit when many states are enacting laws to allow gambling in their own states. Also can't help that the price of fuel is so high right now that I would expect since everything is shipped in from far away to Vegas that costs for everything are rising and thus margins are declining while they try to keep the prices low to the consumers. It is like that everywhere but would think it is magnified in Vegas. The economy is in a **** hole no doubt. Economists predicted in 2008 that it may not recover until 2016 and I believed them then and still belive them. We aren't seeing hundreds of thousands of jobs lost like in previous administration and we aren't seeing the Dow crashing. So it is not in critical condition but this is going to be long slow recovery. Personally I think our government did the wrong thing in stepping up for big corporations while they let the little guys suffer. They may have had to help out the big banks but they should have broken them down in size in the very least. I look around everyday and see small businesses shutting their doors and yet I continue to see new bank branches opening up on premium corner lots. This tells me something.
I answered that in my post but perhaps I should have been more clear. It was not a literal statement. I was trying to say these economists have an overly simplistic view of how the economy grows or declines.
Do you have anything intelligent to contribute? I actually enjoy hearing differing opinions given they are intelligent.
