200,000 + jobs flushed.
I’ve heard as many as 400,000 jobs.
Part of Obama’s plan for America is to move the center of trade away from the Mississippi river to the west coast. That’s what all the push for new trains is all about. Obama wants to kill off the economy of the fly over red states and move everything to the coasts, mostly the west coast, over the multi-modal traffic corridors, through the roadless wilderness areas to the urban Gateway ports on the west coast.
He has even promised farmers in western states that he would re-open land to farming, as long as the farmers agreed to ship the grain and soy beans to China through ILWU controlled ports.
That’s the reason that the Obama administration reduced the dredging on the Mississippi last year, by two feet, making the flooding much worse than it would have been.