"Hey, Nevada, here's your 'gift'!"
Posted on 12/26/2009 1:13:12 PM PST by AtlasStalled
I'm very disappointed.
It's Christmas morning and I can't find one single gift to Nevada from Sen. Harry Reid under the health-care "reform" tree.
Louisiana got a nice package. Florida and Connecticut, too. And Nebraska scored a really big present.
Just three days ago Uncle Harry said that if a senator didn't get his state "something" in the health-care "reform" package, then that senator wasn't doing his or her job.
And yesterday Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., upped the ante. He said that every state did "get something" in the measure.
OK. I'm excited. What's Nevada's gift? Uncle Harry, as everyone knows, is the Big Kahuna of the Senate. He "brings home the bacon," his TV commercials claim. So if Nebraska got dispensation from Medicaid increases forever, one can only imagine the magnitude of Nevada's present.
Flat screen TVs for every man, woman and child? No, no -- that's way too small.
A new military base ... for every county?
A lump of coal and a power plant to fire it?
Maybe double our water allotment from the Colorado River?
Oh, I know: Lifetime exemptions for Nevada residents and all of their descendents from federal income tax? That would be nice.
Whatever it is, I can't wait for the UPS truck tomorrow. The suspense is unbearable.
(Excerpt) Read more at lvrj.com ...
Dingy Dooooooshbag...
NV got a 5 year free ride - no taxes
NV got the Feds to pick up the Medicade tab for 5 years.
Not quite the free ride of Neb, but a ride none the less.
This is the paper that Reid hoped out loud would go out of business.
Hopefully they will help him go out of business.
NV got the Feds to pick up the Medicade tab for 5 years.”
Wonderful- there are far tooooo many illegals in Las Vegas in the first place...
Now this will draw more of them!!!
"Hey, Nevada, here's your 'gift'!"
That’s right! Nevada has Harry ... what more could they ever ask for or want!!!!!!!
Dingy Harry IS Nevadas gift, you people voted for him!
Harry Reid, the gift that keeps on gagging.
I was also excited Christmas morning, searching for California’s gift. All I found were Nazi Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer. I’d have preferred coal.
Where did you find that information? Thanks.
The web, CNN, Fox News, the usual.
You might remember the fuss when the whole mess started and how Harry gave his STate a free ride - for a while anyway.
I remember he tried but I thought it got pulled. Being in Nevada our papers have not reported any deals. I just wanted to make sure. I don’t want to look foolish and send off a flurry of emails protesting a deal for Nevada if it’s not so.
I was asking why Mark Beg-ich could swing a deal to drill i ANWR for his vote.
He got nothing for AK.
I can see folks suing to get the same deal as other states.
Equal protection and all that...
I believe that’s the “deal” every state got as opposed to a special deal.
Both house and senate bills will be combined. Reid will get original exemptions he wanted you can bet. His head is on the chopping block.
http://washingtonindependent.com/61196/reid-secures-extra-help-for-nevada-in-health-reform-bill
Reid Secures Extra Help for Nevada in Health Reform Bill
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D), for example, has used his considerable sway to carve out a special provision for Nevada in the health reform bill working its way through the Senate Finance Committee this month, The New York Times reported today. Under that proposal, states will be required to cover all residents living below 133 percent of the federal poverty level, or $29,327 for a family of four. And while Washington would pick up most of the tab of that expansion, states will have to pay a percentage (between 5 percent and 23 percent depending on the relative wealth of the state).
Reid, though, forged a deal with Finance Committee leaders to exempt Nevada from paying any part of that expanded coverage for the first five years, The Times reported. Three other states — Michigan, Oregon and Rhode Island — would also qualify for the exemption. And that’s all well and good, except that, according to The Times, “The changes came at the expense of other states, including California, Florida and Illinois, which would see significant increases in state Medicaid spending under the new formula.”
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