A Sign of the Times: CES Turnout Down 22%

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Keith E. Whisman

January 13, 2009 at 2:12pm

I'm surprised that many showed up. Nobody has any money to do things like that anymore. Go on trips to LV for a convention. Alot of people have lost their jobs and their homes and cars. A tech convention is pretty low on the totem pole. Even for those of us that haven't lost everything we are still hurting and can't afford trips to LV.

Perhaps most of the participants were from tech magazines and websites and AiG executives taking frivolus trips in an attempt to waste away their part of the 750billion dollar bail out. 

My liberal friends at work told me that if the government were to give that money to the taxpayers that would come out to roughly $200,000 dollars to every tax payer. I think the banks would have been bailed out by their customers paying their bills. Americans wouldn't be losing their jobs as they would have resurected the economy by spending alot of their $200,000 dollars making their own lives better. 

But I digress. I am sorry for voting for Bush because of the crazy things he has done such as the misguided bail out. I am completely against the bail out and my beliefs have held true. People are still losing their homes it's just that the executives of these banks get to keep their jobs. 

I voted for a Dem for the first time in my life in 2008 and I may just jump sides if this is what being a Republican is all about.

I expect crazy crap from dems not what we got from Bush. Well I'll still be crytical of both parties as I'm no fanboy of either party any longer.

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treker

January 13, 2009 at 5:09pm

Keith,

Your liberal friends grossly exagerated. $700B bailout spread between all 300M US residents is about $2300. NOT $200,000. But I agree Bush has pushed us much closer to socialism. Next President will probably complete the transition to European style socialism where the governmment takes care of everyone by taking from the rich.

So, back to the low turnout...I think this is just the beginning of a severe recession with its origin back maybe 20 years as people spent more and more and saved less and less. Using their upward house values as backing for refinance after refinance.

 

 

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Keith E. Whisman

January 13, 2009 at 9:03pm

Not every citizen is a tax payer. Alot a whole lot of people get every dime they lose from their paychecks back. Alot of people are on social wellfare, alot of people don't report incomes either because their income is too low to matter or they do it to evade paying taxes. I think the numbers of actual taxpayers that recieved stimulus checks were about 100million and alot of those people filed just to recieve the stimulus check and were not actually tax payers so roughly 100million people in the United states pay taxes compared to the population of about 300million. I wish I could belong to the other nontaxpayers.So only a third of the US population actually pays taxes. The other two thirds whip us and make us work. This sucks... I'm starting to get pissed off now.

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jcollins

January 13, 2009 at 5:30pm

Technically, taxpayer <>  all US residents.  However, it's still not $200k.  For it to be $200k, there'd have to be 3.5 million taxpayers.  Last I could find, there were 100k taxpayers for 2005.  That's roughly $7k per taxpayer.

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