Further Proof That Congresswoman Berkley’s $787 Billion Stimulus Failed To Turn Around Nevada’s Economy

When Las Vegas Congresswoman Shelley Berkley and her liberal mentor Harry Reid rubberstamped Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus into law, they promised the legislation would ‘create or save’ 34,000 jobs in Nevada.

Since the stimulus was signed into law, Nevada’s unemployment rate has risen from 10.4 percent to 12.4 percent.  To make matters worse, the Nevada News Bureau has reported that $490,000 of the federal stimulus money was spent on planting trees around Clark County, but this project only created 1.72 jobs.

As the Nevada News Bureau reports:

“If a $490,000 grant to plant trees in Clark County public places as part of a federal job-creating stimulus project should be measured by the ‘greening’ of Southern Nevada, then the effort might be considered a modest success. … But if job creation to help the country out of the ‘great recession’ is the measure of success, then the funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the Clark County ‘Nursery Greening Project’ is not likely to win high marks.  … The federal website that monitors American Recovery and Reinvestment Act projects, reports the tree planting grant has created 1.72 jobs.”  (Sean Whaley, Hundreds Of Trees Planted But Few Jobs Created In Clark County Federal Stimulus Project, Nevada News Bureau, 08/07/11)

“Shelley Berkley’s $787 billion stimulus was a boondoggle, because not only did her stimulus fail to lower Nevada’s unemployment rate, a half a million dollars was spent to create 1.72 jobs,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Jahan Wilcox.  “With an unemployment rate of 12.4 percent, Nevada simply cannot afford Shelley Berkley’s – or her primary opponent Byron Georgiou – job-killing, tax-and-spend agenda that is bankrupting our country.”