President Obama scoffed that the Keystone Pipeline would only create 2000 jobs.  TransCanada, the pipeline company, estimates it would create 20,000 jobs.  With so many people in America unemployed, to chuckle at the mention of any number of jobs that could be created proves the president’s clean energy ideology takes priority over the need of Americans to find work.  In addition to creating jobs, this pipeline would help us towards becoming less dependent on foreign sources of energy.  The truth is Canada will still build the pipeline, but will sell the gas to China, so an environmental argument is disingenuous.  Obama is not doing anything at all to help people get back to work.  And worse, his policies are hurting the chances of people currently unemployed or underemployed from seeing a way out of the current stagnation that has shrouded America for four and a half years.  I hate to think this is the new normal, and that one individual has been granted so much power over our lives.