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Laid-Off Pipeline Worker: The Biden Administration ‘Has Taken My Livelihood From Me’
Fox News ^ | 03.02.2021 | Talia Kaplan

Posted on 03/02/2021 2:34:06 AM PST by USA Conservative

Jason Jernigan, a laid-off Keystone XL Pipeline worker, told "America’s Newsroom" on Monday that he doesn’t know how he is going to make a living now, saying, "This is all I know how to do."

"I spent my whole life learning this craft and this skill and it’s not as easy as somebody might think or people might think to just start all over at 45 years old," Jernigan, with Local 798, said. "I guess I could possibly get a job as a greeter at Walmart, I don’t know."

President Biden revoked the permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline project on his first day in office in a series of orders aimed at combating climate change, ending a project that was expected to employ more than 11,000 Americans this year.

Jernigan, a third-generation oil and gas worker, said the Biden administration took his livelihood away from him.

"I’ve been pipelining for 21 years. This is all I know to do," he said. "The recent administration has taken my livelihood from me and expecting me to get a job somewhere else. I’ve got my whole life invested in this."

Jernigan was hired to work on the Keystone pipeline last year when then-President Trump signed off on the project, and he was supposed to start next month.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; chinajoe; fracking; pipeline
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We have enough oil and gas in our own country but shut it all down and import from the countries that despise the US. Where’s the logic? Unfortunately, there will be more jobs taken away because of Democrats and RINOs. America is doomed.
1 posted on 03/02/2021 2:34:06 AM PST by USA Conservative
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To: USA Conservative

Kamala has taken all the pipe-laying jobs. Sheesh she’s veep & head of dept of pipe


2 posted on 03/02/2021 2:37:41 AM PST by PGalt (past peak civilization?)
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And what ticks me off is Biden did this the second he took office, not even a discussion about the ramifications, not even a meeting with the workers, he just cut it off which tells me he's taking orders.

"I did it Master, I did it!"

"You please us Joe!"


3 posted on 03/02/2021 2:40:22 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: USA Conservative

https://wvmetronews.com/2021/02/10/manchin-urges-biden-to-reconsider-keystone-xl-pipeline/


4 posted on 03/02/2021 2:43:52 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

The guy was a moron before he got Alzheimer’s. So you are correct, somebody else just made him sign something at China’s and/or Iran’s behest.


5 posted on 03/02/2021 2:45:49 AM PST by HYPOCRACY
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To: Sacajaweau

A democrat who has more than 2 brain cells? What??


6 posted on 03/02/2021 2:46:33 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: USA Conservative

There is a 90%+ chance that idiot voted for biden.


7 posted on 03/02/2021 2:52:52 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: USA Conservative

He can learn to code, just to have his job taken by an H1B Indian at 1/4 of his former salary


8 posted on 03/02/2021 2:59:55 AM PST by Starcitizen (To the filthy Indian trash snowflakes that cried my tagline, eff you and your filthy country. )
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"When American workers start bit*hing, no problem, Xi. Jill knows what to do. "

9 posted on 03/02/2021 3:18:57 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: USA Conservative

It is payoff for the graft and greed of the Cabal who just took over the Government without firing a shot (or one shot..)


10 posted on 03/02/2021 3:50:59 AM PST by Shady (Prince Andrew must be dethroned...ASAP.. )
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To: USA Conservative

The “Biden Administration” doesn’t care..


11 posted on 03/02/2021 3:52:31 AM PST by pnz1 ("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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To: USA Conservative

With all the wetbacks coming in to work,we can retire while they pay Social Security.


12 posted on 03/02/2021 3:58:27 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: HYPOCRACY

We have a dementia patient as a puppet head preisdent there are people behind the scene running the show and they need to be removed


13 posted on 03/02/2021 4:04:07 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: USA Conservative

I wonder who he voted for.


14 posted on 03/02/2021 4:07:06 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: USA Conservative

However I read this morning Biden has a 61 percent approval rate.


15 posted on 03/02/2021 4:18:04 AM PST by lilypad
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To: HighSierra5

With all the wetbacks coming in to work,we can retire while they pay Social Security.
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Same with the dot head H1Bs. Let them work. They can pay my Unemployment benefits now and my Social Security in a few years


16 posted on 03/02/2021 4:37:27 AM PST by Starcitizen (To the filthy Indian trash snowflakes that cried my tagline, eff you and your filthy country. )
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“I spent my whole life learning this craft and this skill and it’s not as easy as somebody might think”

I’ve laid 4” PVC drain pipe. Try it some time, getting the slopes and angles right with stiff pipe, to get to the connection that you have to hook in to. What these do is 100 times harder than 4” PVC.


17 posted on 03/02/2021 4:40:18 AM PST by BobL
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To: USA Conservative

That was biden’s intention - take jobs from the normal people and make them poor, miserable, and dependent.

At the same time he’s letting millions come in to the country and he will give them free everything.


18 posted on 03/02/2021 4:49:07 AM PST by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of incurable hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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To: USA Conservative

I knew the feeling when they banned Freon and replaced it with something I was allergic to so much as a whiff of. Bye, bye refrigeration repair...


19 posted on 03/02/2021 5:01:01 AM PST by W. (Autocorrect must die! How do I kill it?!)
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To: USA Conservative

20 posted on 03/02/2021 5:11:50 AM PST by caww
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