Haley Barbour: Drilling Moratorium Worse Than The Spill
Monday, June 21, 2010
Stop talking about jobs being lost in a murderous, hateful industry as a bad thing.
To those who complain that jobs will be lost in the offshore drilling business, "F*ck your jobs!" That goes double for burning coal & chopping down redwoods. Sorry roughnecks, but eventually you're going to have to find something else to do. Try building windmills. All that happens when they fall into the sea is a splash.
It's Washington gospel that jobs in the private sector are better than government jobs. But oil jobs are private & look at the toll this industry takes -- Cooking the planet, enslaving us to Saudi Arabia & killing animals.
If the government hired away all the 58,000 oil workers who work in the state of Louisiana & paid them their same salary to work repairing infrastructure & building solar panels, it would cost $5.5 billion dollars.
Yes, the oil industry creates jobs; so does the kiddie p0rn industry.
Imagine someone making the argument that business must be allowed to dump toxic waste straight into our waterways because treating is expensive & that will cost jobs & growth. Is that really any different than Haley Barbour talking about the need for continued deep water drilling?
Your job needs to go when it starts killing things. You can get another job. Jobs come & go, but once a species is extinct it's forever. Calling something "your job" doesn't make it sacred. Everything can't come down to money.
-Bill Maher, edited
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