[neverdem]

Construction Begins On Eastern Ohio Pipeline

Company officials have said the pipeline will bring about 4,000 construction and full-time jobs to the area and boost local communities’ tax revenue.

[pepsionice]

There are two categories of jobs...long-term and short-term. In the real world....either gain is generally appreciated. I would agree....long-term, this project probably only amounted to a hundred jobs. Short-term for two years? By the time you add in support people....maybe 20,000 jobs.

On the positive side....Canada will build a pipeline to the east coast and some Americans will go up and take those jobs for a year while it’s being built. And no, they won’t pay US taxes on that income.

[agere_contra]

Why do we care how many jobs it will create?

If the whole pipeline could be created by a single robot that cost 30 bucks then that would mean that it was a better idea, not a worse one.

Conversely - if the pipeline required the entire population of the US to construct it then it would almost certainly not be worth building.

[Elsie]

The current arguments over how to build out the nation’s infrastructure and put people back to work have long gone far past the point of absurdity.

Normal folks call this LYING!