President vetoes Keystone XL Pipeline bill

[fan_since79]

Well, there go thousands of American jobs down the drain.

 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/02/24/obama-keystone-veto/23879735/

[mtangelsfan]

Obama says "screw you" to the middle class again.

[Adam]

what a pussy

[TobiasFunke]

Why does Obama hate Canada so much??

[Rico]

I thought government doesn't create jobs?

[Jay]

I thought government doesn't create jobs?

 

no but it can kill jobs

[Rico]

Ok, if jobs are a concern.  Wouldn't these jobs just be temp jobs, while at the same time killing trucker jobs?

[Adam]

We're all day to day

[gotbeer]

Imagine if instead they made a water line that went east to west.  Then maybe food wouldn't be so out of control in price.  

 

But I guess Canadian oil is more important.  Especially at below $50 a barrel.  

[arch stanton]

Why don't they build a refinery up north? I bet that would create jobs..

[mtangelsfan]

it still has to get to the ocean, refined or not.

[JAHV76]

Imagine if instead they made a water line that went east to west.  Then maybe food wouldn't be so out of control in price.  

 

But I guess Canadian oil is more important.  Especially at below $50 a barrel.

Interesting I've had a similar idea if they could build be a water line from the east to handle all of the snow melt and excess rain that could be used to address the drought problems.

[arch stanton]

it still has to get to the ocean, refined or not.

Then they could use one of the several existing pipelines?

[Rico]

it still has to get to the china, refined or not.

fixed.  Why do we care so much about helping Canada get their oil to China?

[wopphil]

Imagine if instead they made a water line that went east to west. Then maybe food wouldn't be so out of control in price.

But I guess Canadian oil is more important. Especially at below $50 a barrel.

This is a great idea. I wonder why they haven't done this. It would be a much better use of money than a stupid train nobody will take.

[Rico]

I'm telling you guys, the water wars are coming.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Well, there go thousands of American jobs down the drain.

 

Jobs which would be gone as soon as the construction was done. After completion Keystone would employ fewer than 50 people. The Koch brothers would get all the profit while the country would assume the entire environmental risk.

Edited February 25, 2015 by Vegas Halo Fan

[TobiasFunke]

Jobs which would be gone as soon as the construction was done. After completion Keystone would employ fewer than 50 people. The Koch brothers would get all the profit while the country would assume the entire environmental risk.

Quoting because it needs to be pointed out again

[Jay]

Obama is such a lying hypocrite

[mtangelsfan]

Jobs which would be gone as soon as the construction was done. After completion Keystone would employ fewer than 50 people. The Koch brothers would get all the profit while the country would assume the entire environmental risk.

 

Every construction job is temporary.  Guess we should stop building.

[mulwin444]

The reason its being pushed at all is because the Koch brothers want it.  I get that all construction jobs are temp, I've worked in construction, but the environmental risk will be long term and I'm not sure how we as a nation benefit in lieu of this risk.   

[mtangelsfan]

Reading liberal blogs and seeing so many posts from libs one would believe that the Koch brothers are basically the ones we should blame for all of this country's ills.

 

Energy independence, access to energy that seperates us from Russia, Venezuela and especially the middle east can only be good.  I don't see how that can be questioned.

[arch stanton]

I'm just curious about how the property rights lovers justify the eminent domain filing from a private company.

[fan_since79]

Obama good. Koch brothers bad.

 

Got it.

[Lhalo]

I'm just curious about how the property rights lovers justify the eminent domain filing from a private company.

 

Not a fan. Especially for that bullshit train.