{"id":9254,"date":"2011-12-17T20:41:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T01:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=9254"},"modified":"2011-12-17T20:46:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T01:46:38","slug":"myth-that-keystone-xl-creates-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/12\/17\/myth-that-keystone-xl-creates-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Myth That Keystone XL Creates Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Nation Of Change<\/em> has the story <a title=\"The Nation of Change article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationofchange.org\/myth-keystone-xl-creates-jobs-perpetuated-oil-lobby-parroted-congress-s-oil-recipients-1324141025\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Myth That Keystone XL Creates Jobs Perpetuated by Oil Lobby, Parroted by Congress\u2019s Oil Recipients<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An oil contractor hired by the State Department reported it would create between 5,000 and 6,000 temporary jobs, while an independent study by Cornell University found it would create only 500 to 1,400 temporary jobs. Once the costs of the increased pollution and risk of oil spills is factored in, Cornell found, the jobs impact is likely to be negative.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nPipeline supporters Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), Judy Biggert (R-IL), and Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) even <strong><a title=\"Congress Memebers Owning Trans Canada Stock\" href=\"http:\/\/reporting.sunlightfoundation.com\/2011\/congress-members-owning-transcanada-stock-push-approve-keystone-\/\" target=\"_blank\">own TransCanada stock<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am shocked to find out that Republican leaders in Congress who stand to directly benefit from the pipeline are lying to me. Shocked, I tell you!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>We should require members of Congress to reveal their financial interests in all legislation they are either proposing, blocking, or voting on.\u00a0 Misleading the public on their self-interest should be punishable by jail time.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nation Of Change has the story Myth That Keystone XL Creates Jobs Perpetuated by Oil Lobby, Parroted by Congress\u2019s Oil Recipients. An oil contractor hired by the State Department reported it would create between 5,000 and 6,000 temporary jobs, while an independent study by Cornell University found it would create only 500 to 1,400 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9254"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9258,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9254\/revisions\/9258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}