Here are seven reasons why that is true
By Samuel Warde
The GOP has been promoting the Keystone Pipeline Project as a
“JOBS BILL” in an attempt to trick the American public into supporting the
project although it would clearly serve against self-interest.
For all intents
and purposes, if passed – all the bill would do is provide some short-term
jobs, long-term risk and provide Canada the means to transport their oil to the
Gulf of Mexico for sale to anyone other than the United States.
Pretty obvious, huh? But here’s
something I bet you don’t know already. While Republicans are pounding the
internet and the airwaves with talk about the “Keystone JOBS BILL” they are
quietly working in the background to ensure passage only benefits corporate interests.
How you might ask – simple.
Below are the 7 was the GOP plans to
work against the U.S. interests with the Keystone Pipeline as presented by The Campaign for America’s Future.
- NOT to approve the Franken amendment “to require the use of iron, steel, and manufactured goods produced in the United States in the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline and facilities,”
- NOT to approve the Markey-Baldwin amendment requiring that the pipeline oil stay in the United States for domestic use,
- NOT to require campaign finance disclosures for politicians benefiting from tar sands development,
- NOT to require tar sands companies contribute to a government fund for oil spill cleanups like the one now underway in Montana after a 50,000-gallon spill,
- NOT to ensure private property cannot be seized through condemnation or eminent domain for the private gain of a foreign-owned business entity,
- NOT to tax this oil as petroleum is usually taxed,
- NOT to impose an 8-cent-per-barrel tax.
To put the final nail in their
coffin, The Campaign for America’s Future concluded their
report noting:
"And then, after promising to run the Senate by allowing debate and amendments and after Republicans had voted to block campaign funding disclosure associated with the pipeline, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell shut down all amendments and debate, so that Republicans could fly off to attend a Koch brothers campaign-funding event in Palm Springs."