Why Hasn't President Obama Approved the Keystone XL Pipeline?

Thousands of American jobs haven’t been created because President Obama and Washington bureaucrats haven’t approved the full Keystone pipeline. At a time of high unemployment, thousands of well-paying U.S. jobs could boost our economy. Click here to sign our letter to support the pipeline!

Tell Lawmakers: Don’t Block New American Jobs!

The State Department just released a new study which confirms there are no legitimate.

The Keystone XL pipeline will achieve three important goals for our country: creating jobs, strengthening our national security and promoting economic growth.

Thousands of well-paying U.S. jobs that could boost our economy are stuck in red tape in Washington while the pipeline awaits approval.

Fixing our economy won’t happen on its own. We need your help! Let’s get our economy moving again.  Tell the State Department: you believe Keystone XL is in the nations best interest. Click here to sign the letter of support.

A Little Rebellion Now and then is a Good Thing

The words in the Declaration of Independence, We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, are not just being ignored by most political leaders, the words are being rejected.  

First, the expansion of government and bureaucracy shows that Politeers (politicians that encourage dependency on government) believe government can do things for people that they cannot do for themselves.  The words of Jefferson, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, state that every American has the same rights and liberty to act on their own behalf; that self-governance is indivisible and that government has no authority to regulate that which naturally belongs to the people.  The federal government was not created to solve individual problems and it was not designed by the Founders to create a state of dependency.

Second, when combined with the words, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, clearly, the Founders had a deep respect and regard for our person and property.   Each American is given the opportunity to transform their talents into strengths by acquiring the requisite knowledge and skills.  While our political, economic, and social landscape is highly diverse, the Founders had the wisdom and foresight to realize that voluntarism among Americans was a much more powerful response to individual, family and community problems than government meddling and intervening into the private and personal lives of Americans.  The Founders knew that a strong centralized government was essential to the health and welfare of the American people but only for their protection from foreign and domestic threats.  The Founders were clear (by adhering to the philosophy of negative liberty) that when it came to the day-to-day lives of Americans, the role of federal government was only to ensure that those sacred words of our Declaration of Independence were protected and sustained for Americans and future generations of Americans. 

The Founders created a partnership between the American people and their government and that if this partnership deteriorated and those in power assumed greater authority and control than the Constitution permitted, the American people were obligated to revolt and fight with the same dedication as their political ancestors.   For this is what the American experiment is about; the realization that liberty is a constant struggle and that the hunt for power is consuming and most dangerous when it is unattended.  As the Author of the Declaration so clearly stated:  I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.