January 24, 2021
Biden's Transport secretary Buttigieg tells laid-off Keystone XL workers he hopes they get 'different union jobs'
By Monica Showalter
For a whiff of what's in store for the workers Democrats have long claimed to champion, take a look at this exchange between Secretary of Transport nominee Pete Buttigieg, and Sen. Ted Cruz, who ratted him out at his Senate confirmation hearings:
After hearing a lot of bloviating about infrastructure and green jobs, Cruz asked Buttigieg what he had to say to those thousand union workers in the very real infrastructure project known as the Keystone XL pipeline, who saw their jobs axed and now have nothing.
According to CNS:
"Well, I think the most important thing is to make sure that we make good on the promise of the president's climate vision as being one that, on net, creates far more jobs, millions, we hope.
“I know that won't just happen. We'll have to do a lot of work to make sure that's real. But getting this right means ensuring that there are more good paying union jobs for all Americans delivered through that infrastructure vision."
"So," Cruz followed up, "for those workers, the answer is, somebody else'll get a job?"
"The answer is that we are very eager to see those workers continue to be employed in good paying union jobs, even if they might be different ones," Buttigieg said.
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And Buttigieg? He's got nothing but blithe scenarios, zero promises, no record, zero plan, and only "hopes" that all the people stiffed and disrupted by Biden will get "different union jobs."
Sound like a good start? Only to those who don't work in the real world for a living.
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