In the State of the Union, President Obama poo-poohed the jobs that would be created by the Keystone XL pipeline as “temporary construction jobs”.<\/p>\n
Yet six years ago, his “economic recovery plan” relied on “shovel ready” “infrastructure” jobs that were also “temporary construction jobs” (except for the “permanent government management” jobs, which would go as patronage to members of the political class, natch).<\/p>\n
And at the speech, the President asked “Why not have thirty times as many…” of what? \u00a0Temporary construction jobs working on “infrastructure” (along with thousands more patronage gigs administering the mess).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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