Bingo:

You don’t go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage,” Obama said. “You don’t blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you’re trying to save for college. You prioritize. You make tough choices.”

The comments quickly sparked a flurry of reaction in the Silver State, which supported Obama in the 2008 election. Nevada had an unemployment rate of 13 percent in December.

Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman said during a hastily called news conference that Obama is no friend to Las Vegas and would not be welcomed here if he visits.

“I’ll do everything I can to give him the boot,” Goodman said. “This president is a real slow learner.”

Goodman and others are worried that Obama’s words will discourage visitors from coming to Las Vegas and depress the industry further.

“Enough is enough!” Democratic Congresswoman Shelley Berkley said in a statement. “President Obama needs to stop picking on Las Vegas and he needs to let Americans decide for themselves how and where to spend their hard-earned vacation dollars.”

He really is, ahem, encumbered…isn’t he?

On a related note and because there are few places on the ‘net as brutally honest as the Reb, here’s a nice little anecdote from an actual doctor to buttress the President’s admonitions:

During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and who chatted on a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular R&B ringtone.

While glancing over her patient chart, I happened to notice that her payer status was listed as “Medicaid”! During my examination of her, the patient informed me that she smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and somehow still has money to buy pretzels and beer.

And you and our Congress expect me to pay for this woman’s health care? I contend that our nation’s “health care crisis” is not the result of a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. Rather, it is the result of a “crisis of culture”, a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one’s self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. It is a culture based in the irresponsible credo that “I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me”.

Once you fix this  “culture crisis” that rewards irresponsibility and dependency, you’ll be amazed at how quickly our nation’s health care difficulties will disappear.

Snopes-checked.

Make sure you read Nicki’s whole analysis. The money quote:

You know what it’s called when those who work their asses off daily and make intelligent, responsible fiscal decisions are forced to support those who don’t pay a thing for services, but are wealthy enough to make lavish purchases?

It’s called slavery.

Time to shrug?

Yeh…I think maybe it might be.

Russ

h/t Casanova

Update on Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 11:44AM by Russ

HotAir gets involved.

Update on Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 11:31AM by Russ

The Frugal Cafe’ links:

Will Obama think a “Fuzzy Navel summit” with outraged Nevada leaders will patch things up?

It’s curious that the boating industry isn’t speaking out on the president’s “don’t buy a boat” comment. Obama just gave boat manufacturers and boat dealerships from coast to coast the wet, sloppy kiss of death.

Keep it up, Obama, and you’ll have to give that industry a bailout, too.

Hey boat folk…time to wake up.

Thanks FC.