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We Now Know One Of The Issues Harry Reid Feels Is More Important Than Passing Obama’s Jobs Bill: Bike Paths…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2x6zHkDgPw
It’s almost like Dingy knows Obama’s bill is DOA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2x6zHkDgPw
It’s almost like Dingy knows Obama’s bill is DOA.
“Well, for most Americans, [bike paths] are absolutely important. It’s good for purposes of allowing people to travel, um, without burning all the fossil fuel on the highways. I got up this morning really early, and went out and did my exercise. I’m not exaggerating — scores! — at least 30 or 40 bikes — so scores may be a slight exaggeration — of people, not just for exercise, traveling to work. Backpacks on — they are going to work. That’s what bike paths are all about!”
trplnkl
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'Ole Spend it if ya got it Harry....trouble is WE DON'T got it! Geez, we are in the middle of an economic crisis and Harry want's to spend money on freaking bike paths. HEY HARRY...ya YOU...bike paths are not a federal responsibility.
moreluck
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Besides, the G.D. bikers are in the street anyway, only they don't think they have to follow the car rules!
trplnkl
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They should be pulled over and ticketed.
moreluck
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[h=2]Harry Reid Yet Again Delays Vote On Obama Jobs Plan, Will Take Vacation First…[/h]Pass this bill!
(Washington Times) — President Obama still is pressing Congress to pass his jobs stimulus bill immediately, but his own party leaders in the Senate, where Democrats have a majority, have pushed that vote off yet again.
Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, said Monday night that when the Senate returns from a weeklong vacation, the chamber will work instead on a bill that would push to label China a currency manipulator, which would make retaliatory steps in order.
“I don’t think there’s anything more important for a jobs measure than China trade,” Mr. Reid said.
Late Monday, before he closed down the Senate, Mr. Reid locked in an early test vote for when senators return next week.
Mr. Obama two weeks ago sent Congress legislation he said would create jobs by extending and expanding temporary tax cuts and boosting infrastructure spending, which he offset by increasing taxes over the long term.
The president has been traveling the country demanding that Congress act immediately, but even his own party has not been keen to rush the legislation.
Mr. Reid is the Senate sponsor of the measure, but he said there are other priorities.
“We’ll get to that, but let’s get some of these things done that we have to get done first,” he said.
Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, said Monday night that when the Senate returns from a weeklong vacation, the chamber will work instead on a bill that would push to label China a currency manipulator, which would make retaliatory steps in order.
“I don’t think there’s anything more important for a jobs measure than China trade,” Mr. Reid said.
Late Monday, before he closed down the Senate, Mr. Reid locked in an early test vote for when senators return next week.
Mr. Obama two weeks ago sent Congress legislation he said would create jobs by extending and expanding temporary tax cuts and boosting infrastructure spending, which he offset by increasing taxes over the long term.
The president has been traveling the country demanding that Congress act immediately, but even his own party has not been keen to rush the legislation.
Mr. Reid is the Senate sponsor of the measure, but he said there are other priorities.
“We’ll get to that, but let’s get some of these things done that we have to get done first,” he said.
moreluck
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You might be surprised to hear there is a Harry Reid Research and Technology Park. You won't be surprised to learn that U.S. taxpayers are funding part of it.
This monument to the Senate majority leader was not subsidized through some earmark Reid stuck in an appropriations bill. The $2 million grant came through a little-known part of the Commerce Department known as the Economic Development Administration. As Republicans assert that this time they are serious about cutting spending, killing a corporate welfare agency and pork machine like the EDA would be a great start.
Freshman Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., has introduced the EDA Elimination Act of 2011. In the upper chamber, conservative Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., proposed a similar measure. While EDA is relatively small and nearly unknown, Pompeo sees this as a crucial fight. He calls the EDA "pure redistribution" and the prime example of how federal involvement in the economy allocates wealth "by political processes rather than market processes."
If you've read about absurd congressional earmarks, the list of EDA grants will be dispiritingly familiar. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is building a $52 million convention center, with the EDA covering most of the cost. EDA paid $2 million to subsidize a "culinary amphitheater" and wine tasting room in Richland, Wash. Essar Steel Minnesota is building a new plant, and the EDA is footing $1.4 million of the $1.6 billion tab.
The EDA is not a "social" agency. It's not about subsidizing the arts, feeding the hungry, promoting diversity or caring for the poor. It is purportedly about increasing economic prosperity. While other aspects of the Great Society agenda (under which Lyndon Johnson created the EDA) are openly about sacrificing wealth for helping the less fortunate, this agency claims to do the same thing that the free market does: increase society's wealth.
Pompeo is right: Abolishing the EDA is an excellent test of whether Republicans actually believe what they say they believe.
Nearly every Republican voted against President Obama's stimulus in 2009, arguing that the deficit was too high, that government shouldn't be in the game of picking winners and losers, and that Washington doesn't create jobs. But the EDA adds to the deficit, picks winners and losers, and purports to create jobs. If Republicans vote to continue the EDA, they flaunt their hyprocrisy to critics, who charged in 2009 that GOP opposition to the stimulus was pure politics.
Is the Republican outrage over the subsidization and bankruptcy of solar company Solyndra anything more than political theater? If the Solyndra sound and fury signify any actual principle, the GOP would also kill the EDA.
An EDA vote will also illuminate the House GOP's earmark ban. Was that simply a sop to the Tea Party base that had powered the GOP's rise to the majority? Or did it reflect a belief that the federal government should hew to its enumerated powers and quit funding local projects?
Looking back on the GOP's recent history, however, there's little reason to be hopeful. After Republicans started to roll back farm subsidies in the 1990s, they saved them and ramped them back up last decade. Federal discretionary spending increased every year when Republicans controlled both Congress and the White House. The federal government has more than 80 economic development agencies, and Republicans haven't passed legislation to abolish even one.
Why would Pompeo think he has a shot of killing the EDA? "The times are different," the freshman told me on Wednesday, pointing to the Tea Party's effect on the GOP. But a look at the GOP's presidential front-runners ought to make Pompeo less optimistic. Rick Perry created two new economic development agencies as governor, and Mitt Romney generously handed out economic development grants. Meanwhile, House and Senate Republicans are supporting a bill to expand the Export-Import Bank, an international subsidy agency. It seems Republican officials don't have as much faith as they claim to have in low taxes and low regulation to stimulate the economy.
Even Pompeo won't deny Uncle Sam a role in economic development. Ex-Im's largest beneficiary, Boeing, has a plant in Pompeo's district. I asked the congressman how he would vote on that agency's reauthorization this Congress. "That's a tough one for me." He said he would "love to see the Ex-Im Bank go away," but he can't commit to voting against it because of competing foreign subsidies, such as Europe's handouts to Boeing competitor Airbus.
For Democrats, a heavy government hand in the economy is part of their philosophy. For Republicans, it may just be part of their politics.
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CORRECTION: This column originally misstated the amount of the UNLV grant and the total cost of the Minnesota steel plant.
Timothy P. Carney, The Examiner's senior political columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]. His column appears Monday and Thursday, and his stories and blog posts appear on ExaminerPolitics.com.
This monument to the Senate majority leader was not subsidized through some earmark Reid stuck in an appropriations bill. The $2 million grant came through a little-known part of the Commerce Department known as the Economic Development Administration. As Republicans assert that this time they are serious about cutting spending, killing a corporate welfare agency and pork machine like the EDA would be a great start.
Freshman Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., has introduced the EDA Elimination Act of 2011. In the upper chamber, conservative Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., proposed a similar measure. While EDA is relatively small and nearly unknown, Pompeo sees this as a crucial fight. He calls the EDA "pure redistribution" and the prime example of how federal involvement in the economy allocates wealth "by political processes rather than market processes."
If you've read about absurd congressional earmarks, the list of EDA grants will be dispiritingly familiar. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is building a $52 million convention center, with the EDA covering most of the cost. EDA paid $2 million to subsidize a "culinary amphitheater" and wine tasting room in Richland, Wash. Essar Steel Minnesota is building a new plant, and the EDA is footing $1.4 million of the $1.6 billion tab.
The EDA is not a "social" agency. It's not about subsidizing the arts, feeding the hungry, promoting diversity or caring for the poor. It is purportedly about increasing economic prosperity. While other aspects of the Great Society agenda (under which Lyndon Johnson created the EDA) are openly about sacrificing wealth for helping the less fortunate, this agency claims to do the same thing that the free market does: increase society's wealth.
Pompeo is right: Abolishing the EDA is an excellent test of whether Republicans actually believe what they say they believe.
Nearly every Republican voted against President Obama's stimulus in 2009, arguing that the deficit was too high, that government shouldn't be in the game of picking winners and losers, and that Washington doesn't create jobs. But the EDA adds to the deficit, picks winners and losers, and purports to create jobs. If Republicans vote to continue the EDA, they flaunt their hyprocrisy to critics, who charged in 2009 that GOP opposition to the stimulus was pure politics.
Is the Republican outrage over the subsidization and bankruptcy of solar company Solyndra anything more than political theater? If the Solyndra sound and fury signify any actual principle, the GOP would also kill the EDA.
An EDA vote will also illuminate the House GOP's earmark ban. Was that simply a sop to the Tea Party base that had powered the GOP's rise to the majority? Or did it reflect a belief that the federal government should hew to its enumerated powers and quit funding local projects?
Looking back on the GOP's recent history, however, there's little reason to be hopeful. After Republicans started to roll back farm subsidies in the 1990s, they saved them and ramped them back up last decade. Federal discretionary spending increased every year when Republicans controlled both Congress and the White House. The federal government has more than 80 economic development agencies, and Republicans haven't passed legislation to abolish even one.
Why would Pompeo think he has a shot of killing the EDA? "The times are different," the freshman told me on Wednesday, pointing to the Tea Party's effect on the GOP. But a look at the GOP's presidential front-runners ought to make Pompeo less optimistic. Rick Perry created two new economic development agencies as governor, and Mitt Romney generously handed out economic development grants. Meanwhile, House and Senate Republicans are supporting a bill to expand the Export-Import Bank, an international subsidy agency. It seems Republican officials don't have as much faith as they claim to have in low taxes and low regulation to stimulate the economy.
Even Pompeo won't deny Uncle Sam a role in economic development. Ex-Im's largest beneficiary, Boeing, has a plant in Pompeo's district. I asked the congressman how he would vote on that agency's reauthorization this Congress. "That's a tough one for me." He said he would "love to see the Ex-Im Bank go away," but he can't commit to voting against it because of competing foreign subsidies, such as Europe's handouts to Boeing competitor Airbus.
For Democrats, a heavy government hand in the economy is part of their philosophy. For Republicans, it may just be part of their politics.
----
CORRECTION: This column originally misstated the amount of the UNLV grant and the total cost of the Minnesota steel plant.
Timothy P. Carney, The Examiner's senior political columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]. His column appears Monday and Thursday, and his stories and blog posts appear on ExaminerPolitics.com.
moreluck
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Nuclear blunder.........
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...0/07/gIQAeqtwTL_story.html?wprss=rss_opinions#
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...0/07/gIQAeqtwTL_story.html?wprss=rss_opinions#
moreluck
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[h=2]Harry Reid Guarantees Obama’s Jobs Bill Will Lower Unemployment Rate…[/h]
I wouldn’t be so sure, Dingy.
I wouldn’t be so sure, Dingy.
(TheDC) — Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told The Daily Caller that he guarantees President Barack Obama’s $447 billion jobs plan will lower the nation’s 9.1 percent unemployment rate if it becomes law.
The third ranking Senate Democrat, Chuck Schumer of New York, has joined Reid in backing a 5 percent surtax on millionaires to pay for Obama’s jobs plan, which was unveiled during an address to a joint session of Congress last month. Schumer called the proposal “bold” and one of Obama’s “finest moments.”
The White House predicted that the $821 billion stimulus package — signed into law by the president in 2009 — would prevent the nation’s unemployment rate from rising above 8 percent. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the nation added jobs this September, but the unemployment rate remains at 9.1 percent.
The third ranking Senate Democrat, Chuck Schumer of New York, has joined Reid in backing a 5 percent surtax on millionaires to pay for Obama’s jobs plan, which was unveiled during an address to a joint session of Congress last month. Schumer called the proposal “bold” and one of Obama’s “finest moments.”
The White House predicted that the $821 billion stimulus package — signed into law by the president in 2009 — would prevent the nation’s unemployment rate from rising above 8 percent. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the nation added jobs this September, but the unemployment rate remains at 9.1 percent.
moreluck
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[h=2]Reid Says Government Jobs Must Take Priority Over Private Sector Jobs…[/h]
And there you have it folks, the Dems in a nutshell.
And there you have it folks, the Dems in a nutshell.
(Floor Action) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday said Congress needs to worry about government jobs more than private sector jobs, and that this is why Senate Democrats are pushing a bill aimed at shoring up teachers and first responders.
“It’s very clear that private sector jobs have been doing just fine, it’s the public sector jobs where we’ve lost huge numbers, and that’s what this legislation is all about,” Reid said on the Senate floor. . . .
Reid reiterated his emphasis on creating government jobs by saying Democrats are looking to “put hundreds of thousands of people back to work teaching children, have more police patrolling our streets, fire fighters fighting our fires, doing the rescue work that they do so well . . . that’s our priority.” He said Republicans are calling the bill a “failure” because they are “using a different benchmark for success than we are.”
“It’s very clear that private sector jobs have been doing just fine, it’s the public sector jobs where we’ve lost huge numbers, and that’s what this legislation is all about,” Reid said on the Senate floor. . . .
Reid reiterated his emphasis on creating government jobs by saying Democrats are looking to “put hundreds of thousands of people back to work teaching children, have more police patrolling our streets, fire fighters fighting our fires, doing the rescue work that they do so well . . . that’s our priority.” He said Republicans are calling the bill a “failure” because they are “using a different benchmark for success than we are.”
moreluck
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How does Harry spew this stuff with a straight face? He's delusional !! (Private sector employment is doing just fine!!!) huh?
Reid signals government jobs must take priority over private-sector jobs - The Hill's Floor Action
Reid signals government jobs must take priority over private-sector jobs - The Hill's Floor Action
Lue C Fur
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How does Harry spew this stuff with a straight face? He's delusional !! (Private sector employment is doing just fine!!!) huh?
Reid signals government jobs must take priority over private-sector jobs - The Hill's Floor Action
This is a good reason to have mandatory drug testing and mental evaluations for these politicians in Washington.
moreluck
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Even the Dems. are distancing themselves from Reid's latest remarks............
Reid's Comment On Private Sector 'Doing Fine' Puts Him Out On A Limb | Fox News
Reid's Comment On Private Sector 'Doing Fine' Puts Him Out On A Limb | Fox News
Lue C Fur
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moreluck
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Is this true?
Crooked or Coincidence??
The Solar thing just got a little more interesting.......REALLY!!!!!
The Tonopah Solar company in Harry Reid's Nevada is getting a $737 million loan from Obama's DOE. The project will produce a 110 megawatt power system and employ 45 permanent workers.
That's costing us just $16 million per job. One of the investment partners in this endeavor is Pacific Corporate Group (PCG). The PCG executive director is Ron Pelosi who is the brother to Paul Pelosi, Nancy's husband.
Just move along folks.....nuthin goin on here.
Crooked or Coincidence??
The Solar thing just got a little more interesting.......REALLY!!!!!
The Tonopah Solar company in Harry Reid's Nevada is getting a $737 million loan from Obama's DOE. The project will produce a 110 megawatt power system and employ 45 permanent workers.
That's costing us just $16 million per job. One of the investment partners in this endeavor is Pacific Corporate Group (PCG). The PCG executive director is Ron Pelosi who is the brother to Paul Pelosi, Nancy's husband.
Just move along folks.....nuthin goin on here.
moreluck
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Harry Reid is a Mormon, how come Democrats aren't all over his ass about magic underwear??
, December 12, 2011 @ 3:39 pm | Harry Reid: “Millionaire Job Creators Are Imaginary Like Unicorns, They Don’t Exist”…
Harry Reid knows all about “imaginary unicorns,” he’s an Obama supporter.
Via Floor Action:
, December 12, 2011 @ 3:39 pm | Harry Reid: “Millionaire Job Creators Are Imaginary Like Unicorns, They Don’t Exist”…
Harry Reid knows all about “imaginary unicorns,” he’s an Obama supporter.
Via Floor Action:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) suggested on Monday that millionaires who create jobs are a mere figment of Republicans’ imaginations.
“Millionaire job creators are like unicorns,” said Reid from the Senate floor. “They are impossible to find and don’t exist.”
Reid’s frustration has grown in past weeks as Republicans have repeatedly and overwhelmingly blocked almost every fragment of President Obama’s jobs package brought to the floor because Democrats have attempted to pay for them by raising taxes on millionaires.
Republicans say they oppose that tax because it would hamper job creation
“Millionaire job creators are like unicorns,” said Reid from the Senate floor. “They are impossible to find and don’t exist.”
Reid’s frustration has grown in past weeks as Republicans have repeatedly and overwhelmingly blocked almost every fragment of President Obama’s jobs package brought to the floor because Democrats have attempted to pay for them by raising taxes on millionaires.
Republicans say they oppose that tax because it would hamper job creation
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