Missouri Governor Jay Nixon, corporate pimp

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon is understandably--I guess--but shamelessly shilling for a Canadian oil company, TransCanada, to have their oil pipeline go through the state.

This makes it official. Governor Nixon is now officially and publicly, clearly a corporate pimp.

He's out there, pushing for this TransCanada XL pipeline to transport Canadian oil through the US just so it can get to Texas and out to world oil markets for TransCanada and he's doing it for money.

Sure, he's doing it for money for Missouri's state treasury but hey, selling others--in this case, a state--for money, it doesn't matter where the money goes, just that you're out there selling people.

As if that weren't bad enough, what makes it really, additionally disgusting for and to me is that the prostitute he's selling is you and me. He's selling the state of Missouri--us.

The pipeline is to go from Illinois, through our state and then down to Texas. The Canadians are smart enough to know that in order to get their multi-billion dollar boondoggle, they need to line up all the people and states they can in order to get this thing.

It's beyond disgusting.

Why on Earth should any people or state in the US allow what is a Canadian pipeline, with its inevitable leaks and oil spills and environmental damage, go through their state and area and farm, whatever, just so a Canadian oil company can get richer?

And that's what this is all about, at its core--selling the American people on a pipeline through the country, just so a Canadian oil company can make millions and millions of dollars--more money--at our expense.

So Governor Nixon is trying to sell us all on the idea--and to sell us in the marketplace--so we can get a few temporary jobs and some more money in our state treasury.

This is obscene.

Missourians should no way stand for this.

Links (and further proof): http://www.kshb.com/dpp/news/state/missouri/new-pipeline-project-through-missouri-is-praised-for-creating-jobs

http://kcur.org/post/oil-pipeline-mapped-beyond-kansas-city-outskirts

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/06/1097886/-Florida-voter-purge-official-linked-to-Koch-funded-efforts-to-defeat-Obama