The main union for construction workers is accusing President Obama of throwing them “under the bus” by rejecting the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
The Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) is one of the few labor unions that broke with the majority of Democrats and supported the project, which Obama rejected Friday after a seven-year review.
“We are dismayed and disgusted that the President has once again thrown the members of LIUNA, and other hard-working, blue-collar workers under the bus of his vaunted ‘legacy,’ while doing little or nothing to make a real difference in global climate change,” Terry O’Sullivan, the union’s general president, said in a statement. “His actions are shameful.”
The group’s statement cited a State Department report that Keystone could reduce greenhouse gas emissions when compared with oil transportation by rail.
“But facts apparently mean as little to the president as the construction jobs he repeatedly derided as insignificant because they are ‘temporary,’ ” O’Sullivan said. “Ironically, the very temporary nature of the president’s own job seems to be fueling a legacy of doing permanent harm to middle- and working class families.”
In Obama’s White House speech on the rejection, he dismissed the argument that the United States needs the jobs that Keystone would have created.
“If Congress is serious about wanting to create jobs, this was not the way to do it,” Obama said.
"If they want to do it, what we should be doing is passing a bipartisan infrastructure plan that, in the short term, could create more than 30 times as many jobs per year as the pipeline would, and in the long run would benefit our economy and our workers for decades to come."
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/259395-union-obama-threw-workers-under-the-bus
"... It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings."....I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
Friday, November 6, 2015
WITH 94 MILLION OF YOU NO LONGER ABLE TO LOOK FOR JOBS BECAUSE THERE ARE JUST NO JOBS TO BE FOUND BUT THE DEMOCRATS IN POWER FROM SURRENDEER VIETNAM JOHN KERRY SEC OF STATE AND THE LEFTIST DEMOCRAT POTUS BHO CHAOS MUST FIRST FOLLOW AN AGENDA OF THE LIKES OF COMMUNISTS OF NO JOBS FOR YOU AT ALL COST FOR THE SAKE OF THIS AGENDA JUST TO PLEASE THE ENVIRONS AND BUBBA WARREN BUFFET OIL TRAIN–SO THE VISION OF FUTURE ENERGY THROUGHPUT MUST BE SHELVED AND NOT OPINED UNDER THE DEMOCRATS IN POWER AND YOU THE AMERICANS SUFFER FOR LACK OF JOBS AS THE KEYSTONE PIPE GETS THE AXED FROM THE SAME DEMOCRATS–AND SO NO SMOKE CAN BE KINDLED FROM 15 YEARS OF REASEARCH AND STUDIES TO BRING ENERGY FROM THE GREAT WHITE NORTH OF CANADA
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