It would be oh so cool to take politics out of jobs.

A pipeline cutting down across the prairie does not a job maker make. It cuts down through backyards, pastures, and farm fields. Always posing an environmental threat. Some of the worse kind of oil and clay slurry under extreme high pressure vulnerable to pipeline rupture. Possibly spilling thousands of gallons over environmentally sensitive ground. Easily finding it’s way down to drinking water beneath the surface. Only to make a big mess and contaminating water for drinking.

Pipelines only benefit the big oil companies and their shareholders. Any jobs created are short lived with no health benefits. This is not a job creator. Just a fleeting moment for the big oils. “Boys get it done and then get the heck out!”

If you wish to just create temporary jobs to stimulate the economy, build bridges. Build and repair roads, repair and build runways. Engineer and build high-speed rail. All of which benefit the general American population. Not shareholders.

Publics works is not job killers. But quite the opposite. It puts the unemployed back to work and greatly benefits the American economy. Not just self-absorbed oil execs and shareholders.

Do we need pipelines or playgrounds?

Is it more important to build an oil pipeline from Canada to the gulf? Supposedly creating jobs and mostly benefiting the oil companies and its shareholders? Or build roads, bridges, and repair run ways, build high-speed rail, also creating good jobs, and then greatly benefiting many parts of America.

Do we really want a pipeline cutting down through Middle America threatening open land and water resources or, build infrastructure that is very much needed to improve our quality of living. Do we need better roads or wealthier oil companies? It’s as simple as that.

Either one will provide needed jobs. But both have different outcomes. One serving the shareholders of oil companies and the other serving the general American population. Which do we want? A safer environment or a high-pressured intrusive oil pipeline cutting through our middle states? A pipe that Possibly could burst and dump heavy clay filled oil all over the northern and southern Plaines. Creating an environmental hazard similar to the BP oil spill in the gulf. Is this what we want?

I’ll take smooth roads and safe bridges over oil pipelines any day. Think about it. Oil that goes on the global market or infrastructure that stays in America?