There has been a lot of talk recently about the jobs lost due to the moratorium on deep water drilling. Yesterday on NPR and expert on the subject came up with a possible 50,000 jobs being affected (around 8,000 directly and another 42,000 indirectly).
I certainly understand the concern for those people and their desperation to keep their jobs regardless of risk of possible environmental damage. My issue comes in with the Republicans that are suggesting these 50,000 jobs are very important yet they claim the stimulus isn't working because it only created around 41,000 non-census jobs last month.
You can't think 50,000 jobs in the Oil industry are important and 41,000 in the other areas of the private sector prove the stimulus is a failure regardless of how much money big oil "donates" to your campaign.
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