A modern-day fairy tale peddled by Republicans

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http://www.gjfreepress.com/article/20111216/COLUMNISTS/111219977/1001&parentprofile=1059

Once upon a time in a country far, far away, truth was told. Prevaricating trolls were locked away in prison towers. The sun shined. There was clean water. Everyone lived happily ever after.

That is a fairy tale. So are the jobs we are being told will be created by the Keystone XL Pipeline. Republicans attached approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline to a bill that would extend the payroll tax holiday for workers and jobless benefits for the unemployed, effectively holding the 99% hostage to a fairy tale.

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The problem facing Canada is that they can't get all of their potential production to global markets unless they can get it to a seaport and pump it into super tankers. They can't get it to the international marketplace without going through the U.S., because the First Nations People of Canada won't allow the product to be piped across their land into British Columbia. They fear the corrosive nature of the product. For some strange reason, the Republican Governor of Nebraska has the same concern about piping the product through the Ogallala Aquifer.

The Keystone XL Pipeline is simply an extension of an already existing pipeline. The developer's estimate of jobs has a lot of fuzzy math: Some of the jobs would be in Canada; if a job lasts for two years, it was counted as two jobs — one for each year; if stays at a hotel go up or meals served in a restaurant go up during the construction, jobs in the hotel and restaurant are counted as new jobs.

The U.S. State department estimates that the actual jobs created in the U.S. would be 5,000 temporary jobs. So, actual job creation would be 2.5% of the jobs being discussed by Republicans and Fox News. It is not exactly a lie that jobs would be created, but we have been given a big fat fairy tale about the number of jobs.

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Temporary jobs a fraction of what is promoted, higher oil prices in the midwest of course to pay for the pipeline, and most of the oil will be shipped overseas - the pipeline just gets it to the ports faster...it's all been just a great big fairy tale.

Move on...got to move on