....Posted on 07/30/2013 7:54:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
So… is that kind of like how aggressively pushing for federal, i.e. taxpayer “investment” in public-sector infrastructure projects but actively blocking private-sector ones is “not a jobs plan”? Or, maybe it’s more along the basic lines of how more Keynesian stimulus, deficit spending, increased regulation, and top-down market interference is “not a jobs plan”? Yeah, I think that’s the one.
If they’ve got a better plan to bring back more manufacturing jobs here to Tennessee and around the country, then let them know — let me know. I want to hear them. If they’ve got a better plan to create jobs rebuilding our infrastructure or to help workers earn the high-tech skills that they need, then they should offer up these ideas. But I’ve got to tell you, just gutting our environmental protection, that’s not a jobs plan. Gutting investments in education, that’s not a jobs plan. They keep on talking about this — an oil pipeline coming down from Canada that’s estimated to create about 50 permanent jobs — that’s not a jobs plan. Wasting the country’s time by taking something like 40 meaningless votes to repeal Obamacare is not a jobs plan. That’s not a jobs plan.
Ah, yes — the oh-so-typical refrains of how Republicans just hate the environment and their only proffered solution is to simply slash at the government spending that our economy so obviously needs at its current and preferably an even higher level. The biggest takeaway from that perfidious little moment, however, was that the president doubled down on his claim that the Keystone XL pipeline will only create a handful of jobs — a claim that he knows full well takes some mighty conspicuous liberties with the truth.
In citing the 50-jobs number, though, the president was using the smallest possible number attached to the pipeline project. The estimate he used likely refers to a State Department finding that — after the pipeline is built — it would take roughly 50 people to maintain it.
But the comment ignores the rest of the State Department report that estimates the project would create nearly 4,000 annual construction jobs — and potentially “support” an annual 42,000 jobs.
Obama similarly ignored those findings during an interview he gave recently to The New York Times. In the interview, Obama said the project would create roughly 2,000 construction jobs and maybe 100 additional jobs after that — calling it a “blip relative to the need.”
Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post took President Obama to task for the claim as well, and I just can’t manage to get over the fact that not only has the Obama administration approved similar projects for oil-and-gas-pipelines elsewhere in the United States, but also that the president took the opportunity during his speech to also talk up natural gas as the great and cleaner-burning fuel that it is. If the president does indeed want to continue to foster the shale-gas boom and the jobs that come from domestic energy production, we’re going to need a lot more pipeline infrastructure — stat.
RE: I’ll be happy to take one of those “50 jobs”
What does America need more of? Jobs financed by the private sector? Or bubble jobs created by government subsidies? Jobs that generate tax revenue? Or jobs that cost $1.3 million in government loans each (see Solar energy projects funded by DOE).
According to the Canadian Energy Research Institute, by 2019 employment directly related to Keystone XL could grow from 80,000 jobs to 179,000. If the flow of Canadian oil through the United States remains unchanged, however, total employment from the Keystone line will peak at 94,000 in 2019.
The respected Perryman Group found that across the entire economy, an increase in stable oil supplies would create 250,348 permanent jobs from gains in U.S. economic activity. Personal income gains from these jobs would amount to $6.5 billion, stimulating $2.3 billion of retail sales.
So, Obama’s projections for employment are so low one wonders who gave him that number : “50 jobs”...
Says it creates just 50 permanent jobs
The same can be said for the 1-10 Freeway.
Reggie Love got it for him.
We’re going to need the oil, though.
He’s just pissed because his namesake-care call centers got busted shafting people with no benefits.
Exactly my thought. Daughter visiting from another state. I was telling her about a main road in our community that a good amount of stimulus money was used to plant trees and shrubs. Those jobs redefined “short term” jobs. Maybe weeks if that!!! Keystone Pipeline will create good paying jobs for at least several years. Why is that so bad?
Obama is a very sick man rotten to the core. That project would create tens of thousands of solid jobs and bring billions into the economy.
And he pisses on it like the deranged leftist he is.
Your family doesn’t need that lousy job, Obama said so after shooting hoops and admiring himself in the mirror.
From the republicans: crickets.
Lying ##$%^&&*&. It will do nothing of the sort. The environment will not even noticer the pipeline. He's doing this to help his buddy who is shipping oil by rail.
He’s stalling on the Keystone XL pipeline, BTW, for very influential constituents who don’t want any more business competition or lower oil prices. As seen in many local government meetings here and there, the environmentalist thing is only a front.
Obama has not one clue about how the economy works, or how jobs are created. If it isn’t a wasteful government project, it doesn’t register on his little brain.
It couldn't be clearer that he has no interest in creating jobs.
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Worth repeating.
Oh, can 0 really be this stupid?
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Canada Ping!
Pathetic! A gone who believes that bilge is pathetic as well!
Second, and most importantly, I have noticed that the Democrats/Liberals absolutely hate anything that will energize the traditional engineering and manufacturing segment of the economy. They love the solar/wind/ pie in the sky stuff, but they shake in their boots when good, solid, American muscle will be set loose.
They did the same thing after 9/11 when the country got behind its soldiers, firemen, policemen and other defenders. They could not stand a country with heroes, and worked to undermine it.
The obvious conclusion is they do not want a strong America, in any way, shape or form.
The next anti-liberal, anti-Democrat candidate for President needs to not only come out swinging, but keep swinging all the way through. COMPLETELY ignore the Leftist media -- which means do NOT, EVER, respond to them at all -- go to the people, keep it between you and the people, and you will win. No doubt.
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