President Barack Obama will be coming to Nevada tonight, and speaking Thursday morning at the UPS facility near McCarran International Airport. And a presidential trip on the heels of a State of the Union speech can only mean one thing: The president means to expand upon his national remarks with some local application.
I counted several items in the president’s speech that might apply specifically to Nevada. The short list:
- Job-training partnerships between community colleges and local businesses. This is something the College of Southern Nevada would benefit from, as well as current and future local employers.
- Passage of the DREAM Act, or something similar to it. Nevada has a 26 percent Hispanic population, and this issue is key to them (and anathema to Republicans).
- Developing clean energy on public lands. We have plenty of public lands, and a bipartisan desire to see them put to use.
- Refinancing home mortgages at low rates, saving about $3,000 per year. This could help thousands of Nevadans underwater in their homes.
- An expanded investigation into abusive lending practices. Nevada has seen its share of these as well.
(Not for nothing, but I think the president would be foolish to use his visit to Nevada to talk about anything other than jobs and improving the economy. Clean energy development is nice and all — and it certainly has implication for jobs, too — but Nevada’s unemployment rate is still the highest in the nation. If the president doesn’t speak to that, he’s missing an opportunity in a key swing state.)
I’ve signed up to cover the president’s appearance, so watch for more on Twitter, here on the blog and in my Review-Journal column.
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Green energy jobs in NV have not lived up to the promises. We are very short on those here.
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I saw the same things in the SOTU also, Steve.
But according to the crop of Tea/Republican Party lightweights out there right now, they proclaim that President Obama is the anti-Christ bent on the total and utter destruction of everything we value in America.
The way they talk they make him sound like a Japanese citizen spotting Godzilla off in the distance in the bay trudging their way bent on only one purpose: Drop kicking buildings in downtown Tokyo.
It all keeps sounding like the boy who cried wolf. You just tune them out after awhile because it only sounds stupid and self-serving.
Question: “How many Tea/Republicans does it take to change a light bulb?”
Tea/Republicans all howl in unison: “NONE! WE JUST WANT PRESIDENT OBAMA TO FAIL!”
Dumb. But get ready for another year of nonsense, Steve.
Overheard at show set up for CES.
Q) How many union workers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A) 30! What are you going to do about it?
It was not a joke, that is what the worker told the people in the booth.
Clowns to the left, jokers to the right.
Steve ticks off 5 things stated by Obama but fails to address
#1) Where will the money come from for this? Though i know Steve will recommend theft ( the PC weord is taxation)
#2) Was done already in the 80s , it didn;t work and it will it work this time
#3) Where will the money come from for this? Though i know Steve will recommend theft ( the PC weord is taxation) but the problem is that green energy is ina bubble as we have seen in the headlines that unless governmenrt is willing to spend other people’s money, there is no profit to be made in this industry yet, hence the private sector’s MIA stance in this industry
#4) How does Obama get around Article One, Section 10 to do this?
#5) Obama can try this but unless outright deception or fraud can be proven then tthere is really nothing can be done.