[olecapt]

Good old Sheriff...anytime he is losing the argument here come the pointless non sequiturs...

[sheriff]

Originally Posted by olecapt

Good old Sheriff...anytime he is losing the argument here come the pointless non sequiturs...

Gimme a #10, and super-size it! You go @realtor: http://www.red.state.nv.us/forms/501.pdf

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by XFILESMULDER

this forum is for las Vegas haters olecapt. evidently you cant Read. but you have to put your two cents in anyway by calling this guy an idiot. well you continue to make spelling errors and you use big Fancy words to make yourself sound intelligent when your an uneducated whiner who's come up short in life . Sir i do feel sorry for you...but i will pray for you.

Hey Olecapt, your and uneducated whiner... Shouldn't that read, "you're, or "you are" an uneducated whiner? And listen Olecapt, you'd Better learn which Words in a sentence are Supposed to be Capitalized too, You dumb whiner, YOu?.

[dude66]

Originally Posted by olecapt

Come on PT...Kunstler is an idiot. An opinionated idiot who writes well...and I love his famed eyesore of the month.

One reads Kunstler for the trip...never for truth.

Gonna disagree with your there. Read Kunstler's book THE LONG EMERGENCY and it's like seeing a road-map for the future. Peak Oil is the real deal, he's just predicting it will happen sooner than it probably will. Sometimes the guy comes off as a grumpy old man, but that's just because he says things nobody wants to hear.

In the next several years, I predict this amazing growth Vegas has seen will come to a screeching halt through a combination of the housing slump, expensive oil, and expensive water. But mostly it'll be the housing slump. People love to tout Vegas' growth statistics, but let's get real -- many of these new homes were purchased by people who really can't afford them or speculators who had no interest in living in them. That is NOT real growth, that's a hallucination.

So it will be interesting to see how long tourist dollars can keep Las Vegas afloat. That industry will probably never vanish because there will always be rich people looking for a good time -- but everything else could start fading away. By my reckoning, Las Vegas was about the right size somewhere in the late 1980s when it didn't pretend to be a "city" and was just fine being the support system for the Strip. No need for anything west of Decatur.

[gulfer]

Interesting. I think there is way too much money, investment opportunities, political ramifications, etc... for that to happen. Now, with the credit crunch, I can see less people coming but those MEGA Resorts will open, people will always want the VEGAS vacation, gambling is something so many people are intersted in that it won't happen. Oil is a commodity that within 20 years won't be all that important. Water...could be an issue, but that will take care of itself. Good drinking water already costs what it used to for a gallon of gas not even 10 years ago. Hot dry weather with something to do 24 hours a day everday of the year is something that a lot of people want. Freezing your backside off trying to make a living (northern states) and health issues make the S. Western states very attractive. But an intersting take for sure dude66

[jfkIII]

I think that shootings on the strip and in casinos can also have a negative impact on LV as a tourist destination. Also, if terrorist ever wanted to wipe out the number of people they did on 9/11, that would make Vegas a good target. The last thing that a city which depends on tourism needs is negative publicity. It can only hasten the collapse.

[olecapt]

Originally Posted by jfkIII

I think that shootings on the strip and in casinos can also have a negative impact on LV as a tourist destination. Also, if terrorist ever wanted to wipe out the number of people they did on 9/11, that would make Vegas a good target. The last thing that a city which depends on tourism needs is negative publicity. It can only hasten the collapse.

Well let's check that....How many Casino/Strip shootings in 2006? 2005? How many were there on Times Square in the same period? Did the terrorist bombings stop tourist trips to London?

Vegas is going to go smoothly along to 3 million or so...then we see.

[sheriff]

Originally Posted by jfkIII

I think that shootings on the strip and in casinos can also have a negative impact on LV as a tourist destination. Also, if terrorist ever wanted to wipe out the number of people they did on 9/11, that would make Vegas a good target. The last thing that a city which depends on tourism needs is negative publicity. It can only hasten the collapse.

While one would think LV would be a good target--it would make no difference to the US or global economy. NYC and Washington DC are still the targets, in my opinion. By the way, the Smithsonian and it's affiliate museums had over 45 million visitors last year.

[RebelSugar]

I wish I never bought a house here!

[sheriff]

Originally Posted by RebelSugar

I wish I never bought a house here!

Maybe you can find a @realtor that can't get the address of your home correct, and you can pay him 6%, and litigate for years.