President Obama called into question the number of jobs that would be created from the Keystone XL Pipeline in an interview with the New York Times the following Saturday. Obama was disputing the statement by Republicans that the Keystone XL Pipeline project would be a job generator. He claimed that there was no evidence that was true. Obama stated that the most realistic estimates are that there might be 2000 jobs created for the construction of the pipeline, which could take a year or two, between 50 and 100 jobs in an economy of 150 million working people.
How many jobs that the Keystone XL Pipeline would create I don't know, but I'm sure the numbers would be higher that what the president is trying to forecast. However, the reason for the construction of the pipeline from Canada to Texas has much more to do with the economy than creating jobs. It provides us with another means for the U.S. to tap into its own oil resources without having to import oil from foreign countries, such as the Middle East, for example. Consequently, our politicians are in bed with the Middle East and they've made deals with them where the U.S. imports oil from them. The federal government for years have been dictating to Americans where the oil supply will come from, and it's not from the U.S. We can't drill for our own oil and be energy independent. We must be energy dependent and rely on oil from the Middle East. To me that's communism.
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