Posted on 01/30/2021 9:15:40 AM PST by Hojczyk
On the morning of Jan. 20, every room of the two-story Stroppel Hotel in Midland, SD, was filled with men and women who work on the Keystone XL pipeline. Most of these union laborers, welders and pipefitters started their day over a cup of coffee in the hotel’s common room before heading out to their jobs.
By 4 p.m., the entire place was cleared out, leaving the historic hotel silent for the first time since owners Laurie and Wally Cox took it over six months ago.
“Our whole world turned upside down with the stroke of a pen,” Laurie said.
She is speaking of President Biden’s executive order, signed on his first day in office, that halted work on the Keystone XL pipeline in South Dakota and immediately eliminated 1,000 union jobs. TC Energy, the company that was developing the project, predicts that more than 10,000 jobs will be lost in 2021 due to the order.
Now Laurie, who holds a master’s degree in social work, sits alone in the vacant hotel while her husband Wally finds work as a millwright hours away. She starts to cry as she recalls how they bought the building in late September and quickly turned it into an affordable and social place for pipeline workers to stay.
“We structured our prices to suit the per diems of each trade,” she said. “We created a common room because there is a real sense of community within these workers, and we thrived since the day we opened our doors.”
Since Jan. 20, “the entire town became an instant ghost down.”
The XL pipeline wasn’t the only project stopped by Biden’s pen. On Wednesday, he issued an executive order halting oil and gas leasing and drilling permits on federal lands and waters.
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But aren’t there thousands of exciting new “green” jobs”? Oh, they are’t there?
I have been advocating that for years.
How would the leftists react if the white working class were to call a general strike?
“That said maybe 65 million voted Biden and what the Sam hill were they thinking.”
I don’t recognize what they were doing as thinking.
The left always prattles about the jobs they will “create” with their insane schemes but then they roll out some form of the old “broken window” fallacy. You cannot create wealth by building something to replace what you deliberately destroyed and which was superior to its replacement.
Very well said. I’ll try to give you credit when I steal (uh, re-use) that.
“Yep, if all the plumbers, trashmen and truck drivers stopped working for a month, it would get peoples attention.”
Yes, it would, it would also result in a monumental number of deaths which I will not even attempt to estimate.
Sounds like an OUTSTANDING plan!
:)
How many voted for Biden because they disliked President Trump based on what the leftist media told them?
Now they got what they voted for.
It is flyover country. Biden doesn’t care if they go bankrupt.
Democrats do not want an independent, self reliant middle class.
People who earn their own way are apt to think for themselves.
Democrats want people dependent on their government handouts so they will vote the right way.
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“Very well said. I’ll try to give you credit when I steal (uh, re-use) that.”
No credit needed, just do all you can to make it understood because some people STILL fall for the old broken window fallacy.
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