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Moving an economy from near disaster, weakening middle class, pure capitalist, and boom/bust deregulation, to a stronger middle class, social balance, and regulating for stability takes more than one man. I do hope Obama gets in, but it will take a majority, and a will by that majority and progressive thought, to put this nation on track for steady growth.. I would much rather see steady slow growth, than boom, and busts.. The next bust we see will be all out depression, we won't see anymore lines for Iphones, the lines will be for bread and soup...
That pipeline was a forced hand, it was in the works, pipeline approval is NOT a six month process, sometimes it takes years, pipeline right of way ROW may take many years to achieve, and enviromental can take even longer.. Congress majority forced the hand by the President.. The pipeline in question would be carrying some of the nastiest crude known to man, existing pipelines carrying these oil sand crudes have a very shakey safety record.. Plus the product slated for this pipeline was not for OUR market, it was to be refined by our refinerys, and slated for sale overseas, mainly China... So we take all the risks and the pollution (Oil sands crude have a abundance of heavy metals, nasty stuff in refining process), and get none of the benefits... You ask how do I know this stuff? I was in Pipeline for 22 years +...
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