Obama’s plan is to catch the Republicans in a “Heads, I win, tails, you lose scenario with his fictitious jobs bill. At the base of the bill is Patty Murray’s S. 942, The Infrastructure and Transportation Re-Investment Act, that funds Gateway projects around the country, the main one being in Patty Murray’s home state of WA. Not coincidentally, Patty Murray’s husband is employed by SSA, the company that is building the terminal. SSA is actually an ILWU company that is owned by CARRIX, the largest cargo moving company in the world. The largest stake holder in CARRIX is Goldman Sachs and the cargo will be moved by Warren Buffet’s BNSF.
SSA has recently been in the news for violent union tactics at a grain terminal in Longview. That is just a preview of what the country is in for if Obama’s jobs bill doesn’t get passed and Obama is hoping it won’t.
The jobs bill is packed with issues that the Democrats have been opposing for years, issues that the Democrats will be more than happy to give up as a form of compromise with Republicans, like those bridges in North Carolina.
Then when the bill doesn’t pass and people are upset with the Republicans for not funding those bridges that the Democrats have finally said need to be funded, the bill will go to Patty Murray at the super committee and she will push for the parts of the bill that the Democrats really wanted all along, S.942.
Very interesting crony capitalism info. It would be good to get the information out there via a news thread...