It's Sunday, So It Must Be Time For Another Commercial For Harry Reid Compliments Of The LV Sun

Today is Sunday and The Las Vegas Sun runs it's usual complimentary Harry Reid commercial written by Lisa Mascaro, Harry Reid's Washington D.C campaign spokesman. Mascaro, I am sure, says she is a journalist, but in reality she is just a hack reporter who has very little creditability, even less ethics and even a smaller amount of honesty.
First a lie: "Reid’s spokesman Jon Summers notes the 1,000 jobs created by a new wind turbine manufacturing facility in Southern Nevada are the start of the state’s green economy. Building the transmission line will create 400 construction jobs." First, these jobs have not been created, they are potential jobs and it is far from certain that these jobs will be created. This concept is just in the planning stages and the project depends on a lot of government subsidy.
Another lie: "Reid ensured that Nevada received the largest per capita allotment of foreclosure aid with $1.5 billion for five hard-hit states in a new housing rescue program announced when President Barack Obama visited Las Vegas in February. Nevada will receive more than $100 million." Ok, let's run the numbers. Nevada received the largest amount of money, $100 million. There are 5 states receiving this money. If all received $100 million, that totals $500 million. Where did the other $1 billion dollars go? Harry? Lisa? Hello? Care to answer that?
Another distortion of the facts: "Last year, he inserted in the stimulus bill a massive prize for his home state — $3.2 billion for an obscure Western federal power agency, which is now providing low-interest government loans to finance Nevada’s first north-south electrical transmission line." Well, of course you have to use green energy to be able to use the transmission lines. And since we don't have a lot of green energy in the Valley, this won't be happening any time soon.
Another complaint: Andrew Reamer, a fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program, concludes that the biggest roadblock to Nevada receiving more money from the feds is its unwillingness to spend on social programs, in particular Medicaid, the health program for low-income people.
Nevada brings in $742 annually per capita — barely half the national average of $1,469, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures compiled by Brookings.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/may/02/reid-delivers-when-it-comes-federal-aid/
So, according to Reid, Mascaro et al., All Nevada taxpayers have to do is spend more money to get more money. And where does Nevada get that money? No answers to that.
I wonder what next Sunday will bring? Harry Reid: Anointed first Mormon Saint in the Catholic Church? Harry Reid: Cures AIDS, Hepatitis and Mental Illness? Only time will tell.