KEYSTONE PIPELINE AND THE WAR ON U.S. WORKERS

Today the ‘friends of the working man’ who inhabit elegant suites in the White House, State Department, and Congress knifed American workers in the back.  By delaying the Keystone Pipeline again, the Ivy Leaguers and socialites in the Administration and Congress sent a blunt message to American workers:  drop dead.

 

People who don’t know channel locks from channel changers have no idea what it takes to earn a living in the trades.  They have no concept of the impact on workers which follows the death of projects like Keystone.  Such people run our Government!  There are no scars on their manicured hands and they have never turned a wrench.  Not only are they out of touch with the reality of those who do – they are indifferent to it.  The second Keystone Betrayal confirms it.

 

Each election season, the U.S. Congress and Senate Majority – to which Mr. Ben Cardin belongs  — protest their undying affection for American workers and their families.   But when push came to shove on Keystone, when Mr. Cardin and other Senators could have hammered some sense into Foggy Bottom and the Oval Office, where were they?  In the head.

 

Outrageous.  And Maryland workers – American workers — deserve better.

 

• Maryland workers deserve a U.S. Senator who, regardless of party, will raise bloody hell over phony political roadblocks to job-creating projects like Keystone.

 

• Maryland workers deserve a U.S. Senator whose first loyalty is to Maryland, not to a Senate Majority Leader or President of either party.

 

• Maryland workers deserve a U.S. Senator who has made a living in an engineroom, boiler room, and a shipyard, and knows what it means to work in the trades.

 

Mr. Cardin, a career politician for an astonishing 44 years, has never held a job outside of a legislature.  No scars on his hands.  No wonder he has been AWOL on Keystone.

 

Maryland workers deserve better.

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