Notable Quote - Democrat Party War On Jobs - Granite Grok

Notable Quote – Democrat Party War On Jobs

 

Enter Tom Steyer, the billion-dollar man. After long profiting off pipelines and coal, he began trying to save the planet in 2012. The hedge-fund manager and Wall Street tycoon seems to have gained the ears of White House officials and numerous Democrats across the country. He has pledged to pour $100 million into this year’s elections, with opposition to Keystone being his litmus test.

Steyer has amplified the rhetoric of the environmental fringe aimed at tearing down the value of Americans who build things with their hands. The rhetoric has seeped into the White House discourse, with the president himself scoffing at the “temporary” jobs that pipeline construction creates.

It’s not completely surprising that a hedge-fund manager would fail to understand the kitchen-table economics of a pipeline or its value to working people. Or that construction work is, by nature, temporary and that millions of construction workers lead middle-class lives, own houses and put their children through college by moving from one union construction job to the next.

 Terry O’ Sullivan – President of the Laborers International Union of North America (feeling the wrath of the Democrat War on Jobs)

c/o Byron York- Washington Examiner

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