cornyn tries to criticize Biden's executive action... btw, it should also be noted that military leadership supported transgendered people serving...
Cornyn is as out of touch with American social sentiments as he is out of touch with how to make brisket. Sad!
Where is the $2,000? And why are there kids in the cages he and Obama built? Why is there still student debt? Where the hell is the socialist utopia! All it takes is the flick of a pen.
It's not just about being out of touch here. It's s fundamental misunderstanding of what "unity" means. Ostracizing transgender people from serving is what destroys unity. So it's not just him pandering to bigots. He just fundamentally doesn't understand what "unity" means. By his logic the Germans who were against sending Jews to extermination camps were against unity because they disagreed with that notion.
Actually not really true. We all have great sympathy for say a 55 year old tech worker who gets laid off in a downturn and can then never get another decent job-- always get to the final interview-- because they made too much and 20 somethings right out of school are paid less and are faster at learning new programs or whatever. I have had friends like that. Many years ago while working in food stamps and welfare I saw folks who were just too ugly or odd, with minor disabilities or annoying speech impediments or too fat. disfigured etc. who applied for dozens and dozens of minimum wage full time jobs who never got one and finally gave up and accepted TX benefits which of course were well below the crappy minimum wage.
Folks here from Houston should know the profile of career oil & gas engineering types in the 50 to 65 year old range who has been laid off at their career job, and now can't even get serious interviews damn near anywhere even at Home Depot or Lowes because they made too much in their careers, and on paper look like a difficult persona to learn new information. Houston is filled with those workers especially right now. In the next jobs package or Covid bill, we really need to make sure this vulnerable age group of worker has career opportunities to finish out their careers with dignity and in a way that does not have them as yet another subsidized group using up tax payer funds on unemployment until they give up and retire.
Actually in Houston right now it’s nearly impossible for oil and gas engineers of a certain age who were laid off in the last year. I know too many people right now who are out of work and it’s not for a lack of trying. Those oil and gas guys should have diversified their careers and networks years ago when it was obvious that a downturn will eventually get them, but still these older people are nearly unhireable. If you are managing like an Ace hardware and you get the resume of a middle manager who made 70k a year at several companies vs a 60 year old oil and gas guy who made 200k a year for one company his entire career, who would you hire? I’d hire the middle manager honestly. I would feel like the older oil and gas guy is either going to leave to go back to his company when they start hiring again or is just looking for something to keep him busy before he retires.
Gee... if only republican members of congress would be willing to set aside their partisanship and work with the President and Democrats for the good of Americans the President wouldn't need to sign so many executive orders...
Why should they be? Are Madonna Ciccone's dating choices as controversial or divisive as Ted Bundy's?
I don't get the complaint, he's hardly legislating and mostly asking for things to be looked into. Get back to me when he is declaring a national emergency in order to divert funds away from some budget and put it towards a vanity project.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-keystone-pipeline-kill-11611184519 Biden’s Keystone Pipeline Kill On his first day he insults Canada and ends thousands of jobs. By The Editorial Board Jan. 20, 2021 6:15 pm ET President Biden issued a blizzard of executive orders on his first day in office, including a diktat to revoke the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. This is a slap at Canada, and it sends a message to investors that playing by U.S. rules provides no immunity from arbitrary political whim. TC Energy (formerly TransCanada) has been stuck in the quicksand of American politics for more than a decade. A 2004 executive order requires the State Department to approve cross-border projects. In 2008 TC applied for a permit to transport up to 830,000 barrels of crude per day from the Alberta oil sands to U.S. refineries on the Gulf Coast. The Obama State Department found five separate times that the pipeline would have no material impact on greenhouse gas emissions since crude would still be extracted. Shipping bitumen by rail or tanker would result in 28% to 42% higher CO2 emissions and more leaks. No matter. President Obama in 2015 rejected the permit as an oblation to the Paris Climate accords. President Trump gave the right of way, but legal challenges by anti-fossil fuel groups marooned the pipeline and ran out the clock on the Trump years. Now Mr. Biden is yanking Keystone’s permit and rejoining the Paris agreement. Neither action will matter to the climate. Since 2000 the U.S. has led the world in energy-related emissions reductions as natural gas from shale hydraulic fracturing has replaced coal in power production. China’s Paris commitment doesn’t require it to cut emissions for another decade. Russia’s are set to rise for years. Last November Russian oil giant Rosneft launched a massive exploration project in the Arctic. “Mineral resources will remain a competitive advantage of Russia’s economy, and will determine the place and role of the country in the world,” Russia’s strategic mineral plan says. Killing Keystone won’t keep fossil fuels in the ground. It will merely strand billions of dollars in Canadian investment and kill thousands of U.S. jobs while enriching adversaries and alienating an ally. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has promised to “use all legal avenues available” to protect its Keystone investment if Mr. Biden killed the pipeline. TC can avail itself of Nafta’s investor-dispute settlement provision until June 2022, which would allow it to recoup its investment. The company also has a strong legal case that the U.S. Constitution gives Congress, not the President, power over foreign trade and that Mr. Biden’s reversal violates due process. A source says TC and unions tried to persuade the Biden team by explaining Keystone’s benefits to progressives, including 10,000 American union construction jobs; steel pipe made in the U.S.; a $10 million Green Job Training Fund; $500 million for indigenous suppliers and jobs; and 100% renewable power to operate the pipeline. No luck, and so TC announced layoffs on Wednesday. On day one Mr. Biden has already managed to kill high-paying, working-class jobs. Expect many more losses, since on Wednesday Mr. Biden also ordered executive agencies to review all Trump environmental policies, including auto and appliance emissions and land and species protections. Mr. Biden is sending an early signal that the climate panic will trump nearly everything else in his Administration. The unstated but operative message from the Keystone kill is that he will use regulation and permitting to do the dirty work. Appeared in the January 21, 2021, print edition.
