My double majored degree is from UCLA...LA, you know, Hollywood. I nevertheless use it in my present capacity while supplying, for relatively handsome compensation, narrative to corporate entities meant to enhance the positions of their various products and our client base is I humbly submit: prestigious and hard-fought, in spite of your opinions of me here but still & regardless i.e. whether things being said & actions taken contribute to the long term betterment of market share, systemic-operational overviews of in-house corporate customer/employee relations, etc; which I continue to recognize that Goodman has not succeeded in accomplishing to any creative ends by framing the entire contraction of the U.S. economy up to the edges of the convention trade in Las Vegas; as being Obama's fault for having said what he said.
The arguments that followed, such as yours which are centered upon what is prickly & personal, are still a given nonetheless; that the convention trades in Las Vegas are employing many good people, while offering viable services to incorporated or otherwise coalesced entities & interests, the surrounding areas being filled & brimming with wonderful people paying mortgages, young happy lovers playing footsie stealing kisses at soda fountains as smiling soda jerks look on, happy children running with balloons & kites filled with air, and all going about their daily affairs with little or no relationship to 'the strip' whatsoever, etc, etc, etc, oh, and cattle ranchers too, however...
The following component of those arguments, which is actually predicated not upon "critical thinking and logical debate" runs counter to any of these bailout monies ever filtering out into the surrounding areas unless; and here's that turn of phrase once again: "if on the odd" someone in that group of CEO's, etc, happens to know someone that operates a cafe, or boutique or other concern out *in* the surrounding areas, etc, and that, presumably by extension, these CEO's along with their handpicked personnel and a donut dolly or two would otherwise be motoring the dusty streets of what used to be the wild west in stretch limos sooner pumping the hands of the innocent, ordering their chili cheese fries awhile tossing $1,000 bills out the sun roof remains laughable.
Sure, somebody will be dumping the cigar ash from their trays but a considered amount of those bailout monies would remain on the strip if not inside the venue itself certainly if the forms of rentals & leasing fees and it's just ridiculous to think otherwise either way...
In the end as in the beginning this is not about me, as you and some others refuse to understand. This is about the contracting of the U.S. economy up against sectors that thought they'd seldom of ever be made to suffer such slights. And some of those sectors have mayors named Goodman,
To discount the import of contemporaneous media, symbol & culture is to suggest that none of that matters. Of course it matters, America is a consumer driven economy flooded with symbols & images and all vying for position. Though even if that were the case; that symbols and American culture really don't matter...then why did your major become so agitated over the symbols that Obama drew all around the bailout money being traipsed off into locales
*such as* Las Vegas. Obama also pooh-poohed the specious purchase of corporate jets with bailout monies which has as well been a headline in the news within current events. No, you can't have it both ways, you can't always pick & choose symbols like in the produce dept at the Piggly Wiggly, while playing mirror mirror on the wall. There's a disconnect there and it's useful to understand it imo
The link was evidence that the film exists, and the motif along with it. The motif is that some folks view the fruits of other people's labor as their own before the fact. Mayor Goodman is imo such a person. Yes, lots of work went into erecting Las Vegas. My husband working as a journeyman plumber worked projects for Del Web. But after all the work and employee drug tests & background checks, the mechanical plant engineers, security, house keeping, croupier, coolers, chefs, and the folks that pull the pennies from fountains and everyone else all hustling & bustling about; the Las Vegas that Obama was referring to, the Las Vegas that Mayor Goodman was referring to, the Las Vegas that many, many, many-many people see in their mind's eye when they think of Las Vegas runs = money flowing into it to a staggering degree, by simply keeping the doors open but isn't that just the problem in an economy in a state of contraction such as ours *ours* and not just Las Vegas' cept not just keeping the doors open but positioning, in this case: your product in such a way as to maintain it's appeal...
I myself would not have counseled Goodman in his displayed umbrage with a president of the U.S., it is imo Goodman has done more damage to Las Vegas than you will ever think I ever could. Goodman should instead be thanking Obama, for separating the wheat from the husk in the form of delineating earned money from ill gotten gains. And if it is to be the case as it appears...that Goodman is unable, or perhaps refusing to acknowledge the difference between earned money and ill gotten gains then that onus is on Goodman and perhaps even you for defending his ways & means ~
I live in a town that has outlying areas too, most of the rest of the country does. I know some DUer's from Massachusetts that live in them. They refer to my sleepy little delta town as: Suck-a-tomato, Sack-ah-taters, Suck-a-toe-jam whatever...no one sees me getting upset about it, to a considerable extent people have a right to their thoughts. What do I care what a couple-three goof balls say about my "twisted little city" but not you...
You're here and it's time for you to admit it; to make this all personal, to, as I've mention is the true sport of DU: drag it all so fair afield none of it makes any sense any more (or clearly some hope), while projecting every other ill onto everyone else cept for their/your...what was it again? Reflection? Sure, let's keep it right there period
Though as for what is cryptic in this world, do, please: be off with thee onto
your run as Lavinia at Ashland. Upon your return we may have even more over which to disagree, here, from my journal:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7079850Your continued aspersion upon the ways with which I choose to express myself are hereby dismissed out of hand. And until such time as you are willing to recognize that "critical thinking" harbors more that the opportunity to merely be critical, or that what is so-called and light-headedly referred to as "logical debate" has brought nearly the entire world to a state of what is illogical, requiring new thought to perhaps include what has thus far been considered 'logical' itself; then we really do have very little left to say. I've lived in casino employee housing where the plumbing only seemed to work half the time, I've had my thighs and ass pinched, smack't and rubbed by pit bosses; and bashed my tray over the heads of others and had them escorted off the premises for life. There's a whole bunch of this stuff I do not require your input as regards, "logical", "critical", or otherwise. The best may be that we will sooner still just be talking past one another...
And I am not sorry as I do consider that a bore :boring:
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