tourism. in the state. but, senator reid has always been there for nevada and has been bringing home money and jobs and debt foreclosure bill, for instance, harrah s organization which is huge in nevada estimated that that saved $32,000. and made 10,000 jobs happen in nevada with the stimulus fund just on the road construction bill unlike his opponents, who is in favor of policies that send jobs to china. harry reid is talking to two chinese companies about bringing jobs back to nevada and sharron angle is so far out of the mainstream and says it s not the government s job to help create jobs, she s for privatizing social security and against bank regulation, i mean, all of the things that got us into the mess, all of the policies nevadans oppose. gregg: you talked about harry reid s gaffes and sharron angle has had hers, too, and maybe it s contest of gaffes and, her
on this. elizabeth, first of all, how did this program work and if it worked, why was it canned it. it was only scheduled for 18 months and did may not be a universal solution because it is a temporary program. we know that states like florida, colorado and mississippi have all instituted similar programs and done it after this tennessee program, but they re a little different. the way it works is that it provided employment for 440 employees in perry county for 18 months. this is money from the federal government, stimulus fund. what happened was they were reaching 30% unemployment, listen to what the county mayor told us yesterday when we spoke with him. we were experiencing almost 27% unemployment. making almost second highest for unemployment in the nation. during this program, the unemployment was able to be reduced to approximately 13%.
and even though we are trying to tell them to vote, many of them are not going to vote. even though the no vo says to go ahead and do this, they were disillusioned but what they saw yesterday on the senate floor yesterday, we are grateful for senator stabenow for her effort you about we thought put together very quickly, like a dog and pony show in order to get us to vote for them. this is the sentiment across this nation but republican ago, but if the republican senator had not stood up, this would had gone through and you would have had the votes and you would have gotten the extension. it s the republicans. why take it out on the democrats, the majority party, that time and time again has been there for the unemployed? well, you know, ed, we have gone back in the history of the tiers. we as 99ers are trying to figure this out ourselves. what has happened we can remember the time when the republicans say, sure, get another tier. use the stimulus fund and the democrats said, no,
gone back in the history of the tiers. we as 99ers are trying to figure this out ourselves. what has happened we can remember the time when the republicans say, sure, get another tier. use the stimulus fund and the democrats said, no, we need to find sourcing for unemployment and we re thinking back on that and we re realizing it wasn t the republicans, it was the democrats that caused us to be in this situation that we re in. we want the democrats to come back before this election and we want them to come back and rectify this, ed. yeah, well, they won t do it. they re going to be out until the middle of november. and the president has said asked you to engage. that s not enough? we are engaging, the no vos has given our commitment to encourage american 99ers to vote. we have finally come we ve conceded to that. however, our president, we do need to hear from him. okay. you know, senator whitehouse, he explained a 99er, and we want to be clear what the american people, wha
structure as to why there s a lack of job creation in this country,? which the republicans are trying to address. they are saying what is the jobs policy for this government? how are you going to create jobs? the conversation seems to end. martha: why layout additional funds when you have the stimulus sitting there. i guess you can increase the stimulus fund. that would undermine the stimulus martha: it would now using it for unemployment and that is not working. thank you liz for making that crystal clear. i hope i did. you did. liz mcdidn t tphapld liz mcdonald, thanks for coming in. bill: another obama official has to resign because of racial comments. the network news didn t cover it. a judge says you can lie about your military record. martha: that s o reilly at