- THE SAD IRONY IS WHITE HOUSE COMMENT LINE
IS NOT ACCEPTING CALLS.
Police officers prepare to approach the Last Child Camp at Standing Rock in North Dakota on Feb. 1, 2017. Native Americans and activists braced for another standoff over the Dakota Access Pipeline following President Donald Trump's order to speed up the approval process.
WASHINGTON – ABC News has posted a video with
President Donald Trump saying he has not received one phone call with anyone
complaining about the Dakota Access pipeline. He maintains “everyone’s going to
be happy in the end.”
When Native News Online correspondent called the White House this morning, he received this message:
“THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE WHITE HOUSE COMMENT LINE. THE COMMENT LINE IS CURRENTLY CLOSED…”
A transcript of President Trump’s
remarks:
“As you
know I approved two pipelines that were stuck in limbo forever.
I don’t think it was controversial you know I proved it.
Not one call from anybody saying.
Oh that
was terrible thing you did I haven’t had one call.
So it’s
like bedlam right haven’t had one call from anybody.
And you
know.
Lot of
jobs and that keystone case we have potentially 32000 jobs.
Almost
immediately.
And then
as you know I didn’t cut Dakota pipeline.
And
nobody called up to complain.
Because
it was unfair years of getting approvals.
Nobody
showed up to fight it.
This
company spends a tremendous hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars and
that all of a sudden people show up to fight it.
It’s not
fair to our companies.
And I
think everyone’s going to be happy in the end okay.”
(Sometime,
perhaps in the near future, small well-armed schoolchildren will memorize and recite
this speech in Grizzly-free classrooms. – Tim)
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ReplyDeleteWhat a poor decision. De-regulating environmental policy, and more reliance on bad fossil fuel practices. When I was younger in my early 20's, I campaigned for "green" energy with MASSPIRG (solar, wind). Now it looks like the "Green Revolution" will never be here. Not only that, but why is this guy so orange? Is that make-up or a horrible fake tan? He thinks that putting coal miners back to work is a good thing. Sorry, but there is something called the Black Lung. Plus it is another bad environmental practice. They need to go back to work, but not in the coal industry. But I guess if I say that than it means I'm a dreamer.
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