"Opinion: Republicans jab Obama on jobs, but have no plan of their own" by Juan Williams

[applegrove]

Opinion: Republicans jab Obama on jobs, but have no plan of their own

by Juan Williams at the Hill

http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/juan-williams/237989-opinion-romney-house-gop-jab-obama-on-jobs-but-have-no-plan-of-their-own

"SNIP..........................................

His most concrete idea for creating jobs is to approve construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. The idea has political potency because President Obama, citing environmental concerns, denied a permit for TransCanada Corp. to construct the 1,700-mile pipeline.

However, the number of jobs that would be created by Keystone could generously be described as modest.

TransCanada initially estimated the project would create 20,000 jobs — 13,000 for the actual construction and 7,000 for manufacturing steel and other equipment.

In subsequent interviews the firm’s executives and economists who consulted on the study clarified that each of those “jobs” actually represents one “job year” — that is a job that lasts for one year. This means that for a single worker who works on the pipeline for the two years the project requires his tenure is counted as two “jobs.” That reduces the maximum number of jobs created by Keystone to between 10,000 and 15,000.

..........................................SNIP"

[sadbear]

1. Is Juan looking to get fired from fox news?

Tired of being their token?

[Politicalboi]

2. Now that you've woken up Juan

The Repukes also have no plan for heath care either. In fact, their only plan is to cut cut cut.

[railsback]

3. The reason they don't have an answer

is because much of what they profess is being implemented.. for like 10 years now. In order to make the 2% spend all that subsidized wealth here in the States, they need to be taxed.

[Drunken Irishman]

4. W-Juan-oh!

Okay, that didn't look nearly as good as it sounded in my head.