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Las Vegas is basically an out of control city these days full of desperate huge families who are priced out of basically every other Western Metropolitan area.
Las Vegas is full of people like that who have big families living in 200 square foot motel rooms intended for one person.
They are swarming into Las Vegas and Las Vegas is opening up the welcome mat to huge welfare families and criminals from other Western States.
Last time I was in Las Vegas in March it was basically a collection of welfare families who have been priced out much more expensive Western Cities.
Lots of poor families absolutely swarming the place with out of state plates in total desperation.
Interestingly, Las Vegas is more concerned about paying for a new professional NFL team than getting the crime under control
Go to a Spring Training Game in Florida. Try to take your gun into an MLB Stadium and see what happens. BTW, these rules were in effect BEFORE the Parkland shooting.
While Clark County may look like its controlled by "Dems" because a majority of its Supervisors and city council people are all technically registered Democrats, that's now how it works and certainly not the reality.
Clark County "Dems" are basically "Dems" in name only (DINOsaurs). Most of em' are well-connected Mormons, real estate shysters and members of the Pay-to-Play and Capitalism-At-Any-Cost club. It's not a huge secret to anyone who follows Clark County and Nevada politics. It's a place full of people who want to get elected to "something" and then office-hop to the next open political spot. If that means wearing a "Democrat" mask to do so, then by God, that's what will be done!
In any other state besides NV, these types of people would clearly be Republicans and they would be called out for it. But not in Nevada. Multi-level marketing schemes are seen as "revolutionary" ways to obtain wealth. Yes, that's how "Dem" and "progressive" Las Vegas is...
They don't believe in social investment or social responsibility -- unless you go to the ***right*** church! Then Maybe.
They try to stick the tourists with all of the taxes, so as not to have to pay any themselves. It's "each man for himself" out in the desert.
They call this "libertarianism" but it's really just another way of saying "I don't want to grow up and face reality". Ultimately, this attitude draws other people who have the same attitude, and then eventually (when enough of them are clustered together in one area) you get pure, unfiltered, utter chaos.
And, wouldn't you know it -- that's exactly what's happening in Las Vegas right now! It's full of people who feel no social responsibility as well as those who never took responsibility for themselves.
Now, if you want to talk about San Francisco or Los Angeles being effected by "Dem control", then yeah...you've got a point. But not Las Vegas! Not even for a second!
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What on earth are you TALKING about? Do you know anything about Clark County politics?
Unfortunately yes. My earlier fracas with another poster is representitive of the Clark county attitude we are used to here in the North. His popping off about how his ilk will steam roll us, the capitol WILL be moved to Vegas whether we like, it or not , rural NV is worthless and irrelevant, there is nothing here that is worth a wooden nickel anyway blah blah blah. The Harry Reid mentality. It all makes we rural dwellers, especially ranchers and farmers, a mite prickly.
Now, we don't care how Vegas chooses to run the city. It what is being exported to the whole state from Clark county to N NV and having it crammed down our throats that riles us up. Harry Reid ( elected term after term via the Clark co. vote) has been dumping on us for decades. Sewing up land and water cattlemen and farmers were dependent on and denying it's further use to them and thus hemming us in and shrinking our operations and closing many down. The "steamrolling" that other poster referenced.
We feel VERY threatened by Clark county here. At least those of us born and bred to the lifestyle we have always lived here. Thus the schism twixt the North and the South. Now I'm not saying you personally are in any way involved in or pushing for the attack on the North coming out of Clark co. like that other poster most obviously is. But the attack is very real. And it has us up here fighting mad.
Interesting how liberals tend to verbally demean who bring up the third-world conditions and war-zone like environment of many major cities these days.
How is the homeless situation in San Francisco and Oakland just out of curiousity? Ignored just like the crime wave in Vegas I guess.
Will be interesting during the next recession when these cities go rock-bottom though.
I don't live in Las Vegas, Oakland, Los Angeles or San Francisco but it is very interesting how they are basically just ignoring every social problem they have or they raise taxes saying they will fix it but it just gets worse.
What is your solution ?
Seems like you are suggesting that Vegas should divert their spending on stadiums to help the homeless instead. That oddly sounds like something a liberal would do, so are you a liberal now ?
Vegas will always have more than it's fair share of high crime, homeless and cheap motels that rent by the month. It comes with the territory of being the gambling capital of the west. Without gambling, Vegas would still be little more than a dirty little spot in the desert.
To make things worse, the Las Vegas area has turned into the number one place for Californians to move to when they leave CA because they're too poor to live there anymore.
Update! The number of people coming to Las Vegas to gamble is down to 25% and falling. The Milennials have no interest in gambling, they'd rather blow their money on those expensive nightclubs with high admission fees and out-of-sight drink prices! And, yes, we'll always have our conventioneers.
Las Vegas is still going through its teenage years, and adulthood is at least 10-20 years ahead. The last big city to get a world class art museum and the last big city to have any light rail. Nevermind the monorail (which doesn't go to the Airport because the taxi unions won't allow it) which isn't light rail. Light rail denotes residential usage.
Beneath the neon and glitter of this God-forsaken city is a very conservative populace, as conservative as farmers from Iowa! They expect every tourist to spend their last nickel before leaving for the Airport, but when they go to spend money, they look for every bargain available.
It will be more than interesting to see how Las Vegas fares during the next recession, as Las Vegas got hit the hardest in the last one.
I'm leaving this city today for Tucson. Good riddance!
What on earth are you TALKING about? Do you know anything about Clark County politics?
Yes, the Clark County commissioners are completely ruled by the casino moguls. Ever notice the vote on something the casino moguls want: 7-0! Vote NO and you might lose your job in the next election.
Lyft, Uber, the taxi unions also keep the Clark County commissioners re-elected.
I wish more people would boycott this city, their reasoning: No train from the Airport to the Strip to Fremont Street! That should have been in place 30 years ago and what are they waiting for!!!!
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The Harry Reid mentality. It all makes we rural dwellers, especially ranchers and farmers, a mite prickly. 
