from Robert Reich Republicans claim the Keystone XL pipeline will create thousands of American jobs. Baloney. As the President said this morning: “Understand what this project is: It is providing the ability of Canada to pump their oil, send it through our land, down to the Gulf, where it will be sold everywhere else. It doesnt have an impact on US gas prices. If my Republican friends really want to focus on whats good for the American people in terms of job creation and lower energy costs, we should be engaging in a conversation about what are we doing to produce even more homegrown energy.” I’d add: If Republicans were really interested in job creation, they’d pass a bill to rebuild America’s crumbling roads, bridges, ports, and public transit systems – creating hundreds of thousands of jobs directly and more than a million indirectly, at the lowest borrowing costs in more than two decades.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 17:11:43 +0000
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