What About the Jobs?

President Obama vetoed the bill passed by Congress to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline.  After a seven year review process by the federal government without any decision being reached, Congress acted to short circuit the never-ending mess.  Obama, in his veto message, said that he was taking the action so as not to cut short the necessary review process.  Really!   Obama was not joking; he actually said that more time was needed.  There has never been any review process of this sort that took even half the amount of time, and there is nothing out of the ordinary about the Keystone pipeline.  For Obama, the only problem is that there a few billionaires who support him and the Democrats who do not want the pipeline built.  One of these billionaires owns much of the railroad that ships the oil and which will lost that business once the safer and more cost effective pipeline is in place.  Another of these billionaires has heavy investments in so called green energy and does not want to see anything that might lower the cost of energy.  As a result, bogus environmental arguments are tossed around as if they were true.  Obama is following the demands of his money men.

But what about the jobs?  Everyone agrees that building the pipeline will produce two or three years worth of jobs for about 50,000 construction workers across the Midwest.  These well paying jobs are just the sort of thing needed to help the middle class in that region.  Obama keeps saying that he wants to help the middle class, but when he has the chance to do just that, he kowtows to the demands of his billionaire backers instead.  Shouldn't the president of the United States care more about the people than about a few billionaires?  But hey, that's Obama.