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Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009 | 3:36 p.m.
Harry Reid
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid visited Carson City on Wednesday and touted the recently passed federal stimulus plan and the “tens of thousands of jobs” he said it will bring to Nevada.
In his speech before a joint meeting of the Nevada Assembly and Senate, he acknowledged that the Legislature will still have to make tough choices. Nevada is expected to get about $450-$500 million from the federal economic stimulus to help plug a general fund budget deficit estimated at $2.36 billion, according to legislative staff.
In a question and answer session with reporters after the meeting, Reid noted there's also money states can use for health care and education funding. He also pointed to money that can be used for school rehabilitation and special education funding.
“This bill helps state budgets a lot,” he said.
Asked about the deficits, he said, “What would it be if we hadn’t done that?”
Reid said the stimulus had bi-partisan support from Republican governors, “from California to Florida and everywhere in between.” He did not mention Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons, who was in the audience during his speech.
For Reid, the address was a return to Carson City where he served after as a member of the Assembly beginning in 1968. He noted that he had voted to create the Legislative Building where the Assembly and Senate meet.
Reid got his first of applause lines when he said of the stimulus: “This important plan has one meaning for Nevada and our country — jobs, jobs and more jobs.
“In recent years, Nevada's economic growth has been so dramatic that our state's future seemed to be rolling along on the wheels of destiny,” he added. “Today we are not so fortunate.”
He also said Nevada is poised to win its fight over the nuclear repository at Yucca Mountain, but urged the state to continue fighting.
“Now instead of fighting against the storm, Nevada has the wind at its back,” he said. “In partnership with the other delegation members and the state’s consititutional officer, we should finally see the Yucca project come to a close.”
lets see; Jobs, Jobs, and more Jobs
a half-billion in budget-balancing help
fed dollars for special ed & school rehab
another nail in Yucca.
Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
Hope some of this glue sticks.
It is too bad that Harry Reid Did not have the courtesy to ask our Education Governor to get up & take a bow. He has certainly earned one.
Yucca Mountain is the one project that will truly bring jobs and money to Nevada and Reid wants to kill it, can we please get rid of this idiot?
Its a shame that most of these new construction jobs will go to illegal immigrants thanks too Dirty Harry's efforts to take e-verify out of Congress's version of the Stimulous Bill.
Muchas Gracious Harry.
I wonder what kind of "Jobs" this idiot thinks the stimu-crack will bring?
The appearance of any jobs, real jobs, would certainly be a shocker.
What a joke. I hope we get rid of this clown in 2010.
Take it easy on the Senator, as Majority leader NV is going to get $270 million in total transportation funds which equals $2,369 per unemployed worker that is the worst return per unemployed worker in the nation. Take Nebraska which has less than half the employment of us and they are going to receive $278 million or $7,644 per unemployed worker. Yeah, spend more millions fighting Yucca in the courts, we have a great track record so far stopping the project in the courts can't you tell?! It's a $100 billion public works project, let the science decide the issue and that decision will be made by the NRC is 3 or 4 years away, reprocessing is the way to go and by the way the Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies at UNLV has some bright scientists studying reprocessing and transmutation - go figure - there is your way out of this Senator, support reprocessing of the spent fuel at the test site, we don't need to bury it permanently. That's just how I see it
Reid is the 2nd most powerful person in DC by some accounts.
Yet in the "stimulus" bill we again get the short end of the stick.
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/d...
Per capita, we are on the bottom on getting infrastructure, aid to states and school building funding.
What exactly does he do with all that power?
It sure is not to help Nevada. He has family members who are lobbyist in DC. They are helping themselves with millions in fees.
What jobs are in this bill for Nevada? Do people really think that the road construction companies are going to add that much to their payrolls?
All the Federal bonds that are need to fund this terrible "stimulus" bill will compete and crowd out investment dollars needed for private ventures.
HEY HARRY!!!
I'm about to lay off 5 people, about 1/3 of my workers. This bill is doing NOTHING for them or for me!
If I could get a loan of say $100,000 (WHICH I WOULD REPAY!), I could get through this tough time. This is what you should be concentrating on, not billions for banks or auto companies.
Stimulus my ass!!!!
Looks like the Republicans have nothing to do but criticize Harry. The Republican party of today is quite reminisent of the Do-Nothing party of the past. During the Bush years, Paulson just did nothing for a stimulus and now the Republicans in Congress want us to do nothing. The only ones who don't do nothing is their riff-raff who just coninually do nothing but bitch.
Ensign had a much better stimulus plan. His plan would allowed all mortgage holders to refinance their mortgage at 4%. That would have truly stimulated the economy.
Too bad..it was rejected by the Democrats.
Again, the hilarity & partisanship of the rightsided commenters rears it's ugly head. snippets. partial truths. misquotes. cut&paste. name calling. histrionics. ALL the usual consensus-building tools we've come to expect.
AND getalife sure is PROUD of that stimu-crack crack! that is EVER so CLEVER!
Obama had a snarky smash down 2-5-2009 in Williamsburg. Obama exaggerated that unless Republicans instantaneously supported the Democratic social engineering borrowing and spending Reid - Pelosi Stimulus II bill the country cannot avoid an economic catastrophe and ensuing chaos.
I repeat Obama said the country cannot avoid an economic catastrophe and ensuing chaos.
Now Harry Reid has come home to Nevada on 2-17-2009 and declared that "this is not going to be a Great Depression... I think the economy is going to be better... Obama is betting on the economy getting better."
Given the poor CBO jobs scoring and long term negative 10 year out GDP forecast, Obama's Reid - Pelosi stimulus need to rely purely on a "psychological lift to consumer confidence" from the package to sell itself that the economy will not end up stuck in a prolonged deflationary trap)
Vice President Joseph Biden told House Democrats that "there's still a 30 percent chance we'll get it wrong." Over a trillion dollars and only a 70% chance of success.
Obama signed the Reid - Pelosi bill on 2-17-2009, and the Dow Jones tanked 300 points down to 7552.
The White House leaked that since only a third of the Reid - Pelosi bill is stimulus, that Stimulus III will be needed.
The LV Sun ED has jumped on the bandwagon saying "".it does offer the most optimistic outlook since the recession began."
No wonder people need to continue to personally deleverage and stop all discretionary spending.
Consumer confidence is dropping with Obama's snarky fear mongering campaign of ranting against the economy and businesses and saying that our economy will not recover without an immediate borrow and spend package and pay cuts for business owners.
Low confidence by everybody who needs to deleverage will continue to slow or stop spending with this Obama fear mongering of the economy.
No hope or reason here for expanded discretionary spending.
I think Reid is scare that Yucca Mountain will be licensed by the NRC; since DOE Secetary Chu said let's keep on the Licensing process for Yucca Mountain. Therefore, Reid wants us to waste money that could be going to education or other use in NV. Since, he or Obama can not stop Yucca Mtn, unless they change the Nuclear Waste Policy Act.
If Obama does not submit the license for processing for political reasons then he would be breaking the law.
On February 15, 2009 the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported on page 3B that Nevada ranked dead last in per-capita education funds doled out in the stimulus package. The package was ratified by the Senate of which Harry Reid is the Majority Leader! Nevadans should reflect on what Harry Reid has done for them latley. "Not much", "not a thing", "more harm than good" come to mind.
HEY NANCE;
Houses have taken nearly a 40 percent tumble.
Who will refinance at ANY percent to re-do a loan that has them owing close to twice as much as the property is worth?
gmag39, thanks for the love, but why do the taxpayers have to pay for poor decisions on buying a home?
As for Reid, the only jobs this guy creates are lawyers to fight green jobs, yucca and anything else that might help Nevada.
I love the picture the Sun runs for Harry. Looks like he is constipated or trying find a way to screw Nevada again.
No mention from harry of the "Las Vegas is an extravagance" quote from our dear President. Read the numbers in the next six months if you still have a job so you can live here.
I'm no Republican, and I think Sen. Reid sold out the American people along with Pelosi by co-spearheading the efforts to exclude E-Verify from the stimulus bill. This will create up to 300,000 jobs for illegal aliens, jobs that Americans need right now.
Get rid of this clown in 2010! Unfortuntely, we will have to vote Republican to do so.
WHAT GOOD IS THE $400 REBATE IF YOUR LAYED OFF????????????????????????????????????????
AngryReader: You must be insane if you like what Reid is doing to NV and the nation!!!!
A Recent Reno Gazette-Journal Poll shows 66% of Nevadans are IN FAVOR of Yucca Mountain!!!! So where's the story for the public to see???? Can you say "Media Bias"???? I wish the non-thinking sheep that listen to the lies coming from Harry "We lost the War" Reid.
We need to campaign against Reid's fear mongering insanity that has this state completely hoodwinked. We need the Yucca Mountain for so many good reasons -- a primary one now is to help the Nevada economy and save jobs!!! Besides, IT IS THE LAW!!!
Dirty Harry has done NOTHING to help the Nevada economy and now he's trying to kill a $100 Billion income stream from the Yucca Mountain Project; some thousands of jobs now and in the future; the only job in Nevada for highly educated, highly trained workers; and put enough homes on the market in Summerlin to quickly turn it into Slummerlin...
If the public was properly informed about the Yucca Mountain Project, I'm sure more and more people would be for it. Let's put it on a Ballot for a vote!
Reid should have worked with the Government to make Yucca an advanced center for Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing, and even solar and wind farms.
But no, the monster ego of this truly little man is single handedly destroying Nevada while he lines his pockets from his shady dealings...
And then there are his infuriating recent commercials... Every word of them is a lie as he tries to gain our votes once again....
Just say "NO" to Harry in 2010 !!!!!
Ty Cobb is the ONLY Nevada politician with his head NOT firmed planted in Harry's butt! I hope he will challenge Harry in 2010!!!
All,
For information on how to fight Harry on his farcical "Don Quixote"-like quest to kill Yucca Mountain, please see:
www.yuccamatters.com
AngryReader:
The jobs that would result from the Mag-Lev train for Nevadans would be laying the track.
Every other facet of the necessary materials, engineering, procurement, and equipment will be money spent out of State and out of the Country!!!
It will do very little for the NV Economy.
The brand new Solar plant southeast of Vegas got tax breaks from the state of Nevada.
I saw a newstory that said the plant only hired one Nevadan. The rest came from out-of-state.
That is sad and funny.
You see how they always say...it's gonna create jobs.....what kind of jobs?....what about the jobs that we lost that still exist?...the casinos, businesses that have had to close down; lay people off....how about getting us back on track so we can get our old jobs back. What is going to happen when they close down Yucca?...more lost jobs..how is this imporving our joblessness?....Do they honestly think that building a rail system from here to victorville (the middle of nowhere) is going to create enough jobs needed to get this state back on track or bring more people into Las Vegas???...No..it's not...
Rethuglikkkan Recession .... NEVER FORGET!
Has Anyone noticed all the hate and right winged radical local nut jobs , like bill pearson .
look at his website and on the lower hand left side .
one can view the anti democracy link of traitorism of angry white men/southern confederate turncoats against the union , trying to use patriotic themes and historical names to disguise separatism and nazism.
all peddeling fear and pushed with hate ideals . very selective propaganda.