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Published Monday, March 16, 2009 | 2:33 p.m.
Updated Monday, March 16, 2009 | 2:34 p.m.
WASHINGTON -- Several of you asked, after reading the weekend story about the earmarks secured by Nevada Sens. Harry Reid and John Ensign secured in the $410 billion omnibus spending bill, for a fuller accounting of what they got for the home state.
As the story mentioned, Reid outlines the more than $100 million he secured for pet projects in Nevada in a press release you can read here.
Ensign earmarked $50 million for special projects in Nevada, mostly those he co-sponsored with Reid or others. Ensign’s list is not readily accessible on his Web site.
But the folks at Taxpayers for Common Sense have compiled a compiled a database of earmarks obtained by all lawmakers.
You can access the Taxpayers for Common Sense report and scroll through to see what Reid and Ensign and the rest of the Nevada delegation put their names on as earmarks in the omnibus.
The file is searchable by bill, by lawmaker or in various combinations. Pour yourself a cup of coffee and check it out.
Nevada is getting less help from the federal government than most other states on a per person basis. In total stimulus funds, the state has a per ca pita rank of 50th out of 51 (that's 50 states plus Washington, D.C.); in education funding, it's 51st; in transportation, it's 48th; and in Medicaid funds, it's 47th.
But when it comes to the $1.5 billion that's earmarked for the state in a variety of areas, Nevada falls near the bottom. Only Utah's was less than Nevada on a per ca pita basis.
Nevada's total haul from the $787 billion federal bill was about $560 per person.
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Bad Harry
Bad Senator
(1) We lost out on tons of Medicaid funds because the Luv Guv reduced the budget so much that we lost out on matching funds. No ones fault we lost out but his.
(2) Per capita analysis is suspect at best. How can anyone compare the needs of a state like Louisiana devastated by hurricanes to Nevada who's only disaster has been a flood up North.
Harry Reid was on Rusty Humphries Talk Show Friday night and Harry said Americans are sad they are not MAD about the state of the economy. It time to tell Harry we are Mad as Hell
Call Harry Reid 202 224 5556 in Washington DC and Let him know how Mad we are with the inconsiderate, incompetent obama and the SENATE
email harry
http://reid.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm......
Are you Democrats going to let this incompetent, inconsiderate left wingers of obama, schummmmmmer, reid, peloski, rambo the vulgar and murray take over your party and promote the rape of our children and grand children futures.
They don't give a dang about you real democrats. they just hijacked your party to promote MARXIST and Communism
Dude, get your anger straight. You can't hijake a party to promote an adjective.
Additionally Marxism isn't inherently bad. Marxism just recognizes haves/have nots, base vs superstructure, working vs owning, etc. It's called dialectical materialism, and lots of other things have it. A good example is Christianity. You cannot have God with out having the devil. You cannot have heaven without hell; good vs evil; etc.
As for Communism, well the left might as well bleet about republicans going fascist (which is equally stupid). I dare you, nay I double dog dare you bobojake, to show concretely how Obama is going to make this a dictatorship of the proletariat. You will also have to demonstrate how Obama will expropriate all private property. And if this is communism, won't Obama have to make it a one-party rule?
If you can't prove any of those points then you are just screaming hollow Rush reheated rhetoric.
40 million illegal aliens are squatting in our nation, taking free education, health care and crammed prisons, as assayed by Robert Rector, president of the non-profit Heritage Foundation and a organization (CAPSWEB) Californians for Population Stabilization. Rather than the twelve million reported by pro-illegal alien zealots in the Liberal national press, Bush/ Obama administration and Congress. Clearly, the governing of America has fallen into the hands of corporate elitists who do not give a fig about our sovereignty, the rule of law, our Constitution, or the preservation of American language and culture. Those are the same politicians who cry out about conservation, green power grids, hybrid autos, poverty and the fact that giant agricultural corporations are swallowing small farmers. Taxpayers are the beneficiaries of business welfare.
Yet these lobotomized personages are eager to pass an amnesty plan that would reward 40 million lawbreakers with the most prized possession on this planet: U.S--- CITIZENSHIP.
At the helm is Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV, Speaker Nancy Pelos (D-NV) who have become subservient to the US. Chamber of Commece, ACLU and and a bunch of open border radicals, who would destroy our---NATIONAL IDENTITY. These political leaders along with 48 Democrats have polluted the Senate with a paramount corruption, when our country is suffering mass unemployment . They have eradicated E-Verify from the Stimulus/Omnibus bill, a very efficient, very successful application to remove illegal aliens from the workplace. It must be revised and made a----PROTRACTED----law, and not subject to political consideration every few years.
Join millions of THE PEOPLE now and start pounding on Washington door at 202-224-3121. To find your Senator: http://www.senate.gov/ To find your Representative: http://www.house.gov/ Leave a comment for the President: 202) 456-1414, To comment: (202) 456-111