harry reid has a point, no one can do more... for his cronies. The people of Nevada have a paid a steep price for harry reid. Nevada currently has one of the highest unemployment rates in the Country (13.7%) and has a foreclosure rate about 3.5 times the national average. In January 2009 foreclosure filings were reported on 14,444 Nevada properties, that's up 137% from January 2008.
And lets's not forget that harry reid is also an idiot. Watch the video below if you don't believe me...
As far as Sharron Angle's ideas concerning social security, medicare and the u.n., she has some good points. Belonging to the u.n. does nothing but cost of billions of dollars. We never get a fair shake, few of the other countries agree with our positions and the sanctions and resolutions are absolutely worthless. We should pull out and send the rest of the u.n. scumbags packing. They are taking up some very valuable New York real estate.
While I have paid into social security since I was 16 years old, I will never see a benefit from it. By the time I am old enough to draw social security it will be long gone. Our wonderful elected representatives of the past begged, borrowed and stolen from the social security lock box and never put the money back.
Medicare is on it's way out. obamacare is going to make sure that medicare is a thing of the past. Many doctors and hospitals are already refusing to accept medicare because the government refuses to pay enough to even cover the costs associated with treatment. Doctors and hospitals can't afford to treat all the illegal immigrants in this Country for free and still take a beating treating the elderly.
It's a sad state of affairs when the older population gets kicked to the curb by the government of the very Country they helped make great...
Sharron Angle appears to be attempting to ensure that those of us planning for a retirement have a plan other than social security. harry reid sure doesn't want us in charge of our own money, he is a washington insider who feels he can spend our money much better than we can. We are all entirely too stupid to make an intelligent decision about our personal finances...
From FoxNews
As members of Congress across the country try to distance themselves from Washington by burnishing their "outsider" credentials, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is doing just the opposite -- he's embracing his incumbency as he seeks re-election in Nevada.
After Republicans selected Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle last week to run against Reid, the Senate's No. 1 Democrat is trying to make the case back home that experience is good, and that his clout in the nation's capital is what brings jobs and funding to Nevada.
"No one can do more," is Reid's new campaign slogan, unveiled in a pair of ads that tout his record securing funding for alternative energy sector jobs.
The strategy is undoubtedly risky in an election year when upstart candidates like Angle are surging on the crest of the Tea Party movement and incumbents are generally trying to downplay their establishment ties.
While Reid, who has served in Congress since 1983, has decided to play to his decades of experience, all Republicans see is a bigger target.
"It's an interesting strategy to brag about bringing jobs to your state when you have 13.7 percent unemployment," said Brian Walsh, spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee. The nationwide unemployment rate is 9.7 percent.
Walsh said he wouldn't argue with the new slogan.
"No one has done more to increase the role of the federal government or raise taxes on Nevada families," he said.
The NRSC released a web ad focused on Reid's experience, only from a different perspective. The ad is called "Harry Reid: Decades of Epic Fail."
A group called American Crossroads also just released an ad billed as a response to Reid's "no one can do more" message.
"Harry Reid's work is paying off all right -- paying off for his friends in Washington but leaving Nevada with what?" the narrator says, citing the state's high unemployment rate.
The narratives are being set as the general election gets under way following a close Republican primary. Angle, a former state assemblywoman, came away the winner in that race on Tuesday after trailing her opponents for months.
Reid and Democratic strategists immediately set about to casting Angle as a "wacky" fringe candidate.
A Reid ad slams Angle for supporting a phasing-out of Medicare and Social Security and for pushing a drug treatment program for inmates based on Scientology.
"It's this season's hottest new trend: Republicans nominating candidates so far to the right, they're practically falling off the map," Reid's campaign said on its blog after Angle won.
Reid's campaign on Monday dismissed the GOP criticism aimed at the "no one can do more" message. Spokesman Kelly Steele said Reid has created thousands of jobs by bringing clean-energy firms to the state and secured millions of dollars to help residents stay in their homes, suggesting that's more than Angle can say.
"This is nothing more than Republicans attempting to change the subject from the dangerous, extreme agenda of their accidental candidate, Sharron Angle -- who wants to eliminate Social Security and Medicare, pull the U.S. out of the U.N., give massages to prisoners, and deregulate Wall Street and the big oil companies responsible for the crisis in the Gulf. By contrast, Sen. Reid delivers meaningful results for Nevada families every day," he said in a statement.
Though Democrats claimed to be delighted at Angle's win, a Rasmussen survey taken one day after the primary showed her leading Reid 50-39 percent.
Angle, in an interview Monday with Fox News, said "mainstream Americans" are questioning Reid, and she used harsh words to assail the very record Reid is touting.
"The problem is Harry Reid. He's had 24 years to do something for Americans, and he hasn't done it," she said. "In fact he has pretty much waterboarded our economy for the last year and a half."
She said the state's high rate of unemployment, foreclosures and bankruptcy stand as a testament to Reid's ineffectiveness.
"Harry Reid has truly failed and we're saying, 'Harry Reid, you're fired,'" she said. Angle disputed the claim that she wants to eliminate Social Security and Medicare, saying she wants to "personalize" them.
Reid, his $9 million campaign war chest and his high-profile supporters see things differently. A stump speech last week by former President Bill Clinton showed that Reid's campaign would be rejecting the argument that years in Washington make politicians go stale.
"Why would you give away the Senate majority leader who has delivered time and time again?" Clinton said at the rally Thursday night.
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