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Rational? For a religious person, Progressive ism is a religion, there is no reason. There can be no rational thought. Hideabound adherence to the dogma is the only possible course
He doesn’t care about jobs in the traditional sense that your or I may think of. If he could get by solely on the complicit media and willing Democrats say so (lies) about unemployment and jobs, he would! His goal is to create as large an entitlement workforce as humanly possible, if you want to call them that - professional unemployed who subsist on ever increasing government ‘benefits’, period. End, fin, fini, finite.
Obviously, even with the media and virtually every Democrat in existence LYING for him, there are still people out there that profess the contrary. The dreaded right, terrorists he privately (and sometimes publically) calls them are his bane, and this is why he and his agencies are so oppressive and tyrannical in many ways.
XL would produce the wrong kind of jobs. The only Obamajobs are unemployable deadbeats helping unemployable deadbeats shake down tye US taxpayer. It is much easier and politically potent to steal money that hasalready been earned and created by someone else then to produce it from scratch.