Dec 3rd - Political Commentary - Buy American???? - Oil Sands

 Check out the video clip at the link below.
 http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/us-bridges-roads-built-chinese-firms-14594513?tab=9482930&section=1206853&playlist=14594944

I thought one comment made by a government official was interesting, fabrication facilities can't find welders. I am a firm believer that, in general, government has done such a good job of turning us into an entitlement nation that few are willing to work to learn the skills it takes to get a better job. Before retiring I regularly heard comments that companies about how difficult it was to find skilled labor.

Why get a job when Obama will borrow more money from the Chinese and Arabs to pay you to sit on your butt?

Why work to learn a skill when Obama will tax the hell out of those who have learned skills and give that money to you.

Ron, the guy I'm working for, and I had an interesting discussion at supper last night. He is from Alberta. I asked him what he thought about the environmental consequences of tapping the VAST quantities of oil in the oil sands. His reply. "The stuff has been oozing out of the ground forever. Now companies are taking the oil out of the sand and putting white sand back in its place." He said the Canadian federal government gets a LOT of money from the oil sands and that money get distributed across Canada. He wondered why the people of Quebec, who keep trying to stop the extraction, while they stand with their hand out to get their cut of the profits.  He also mentioned a tree hugger video about some birds that had flown into one of the retention ponds. He wondered why the same tree huggers hadn't done some filming at a wind power site next to a school. A crew has to go out every morning to pick up the dead birds before the kids get to school.