Democrats never grow tired of telling us that they’re the party of working Americans.
They’re supposedly the ones who stand up for the little guy, as opposed to their counterparts on the Republican side of the aisle who are all too eager to put more money in the pockets of rich CEOs at the expense of their employees.
The notion was always ridiculous, and never squared with reality, but the extent of its absurdity has become especially stark in the aftermath of President Biden’s executive order killing the Keystone XL pipeline.
Writing in the New York Post, Salena Zito passes along this sad story of the human cost of Biden’s ill-conceived decision:
“On the morning of Jan. 20, every room of the two-story Stroppel Hotel in Midland, SD, was filled with men and women who work on the Keystone XL pipeline. Most of these union laborers, welders and pipefitters started their day over a cup of coffee in the hotel’s common room before heading out to their jobs.
“By 4 p.m., the entire place was cleared out, leaving the historic hotel silent for the first time since owners Laurie and Wally Cox took it over six months ago.
"'Our whole world turned upside down with the stroke of a pen,' Laurie said.
"She is speaking of President Biden’s executive order, signed on his first day in office, that halted work on the Keystone XL pipeline in South Dakota and immediately eliminated 1,000 union jobs. TC Energy, the company that was developing the project, predicts that more than 10,000 jobs will be lost in 2021 due to the order."
That’s another 10,000-plus jobs sacrificed to the left’s radical green agenda.
