President Barack Obama is coming to Allentown today to talk about jobs.
It comes on the heels of his jobs summit yesterday in Washington, D.C.
Obama will kick off what is being referred to as his Main Street talking tour.
Too bad he couldn’t make a stop at Sunoco’s sprawling Eagle Point Refinery in South Jersey. He might have gotten a better feel for what is happening out there.
Thursday was the last day on the job for hundreds of refinery workers. They're shutting the place down. Many had been there for decades. Finding another job, at a similar salary, will likely be close to impossible. The oil industry is reeling.
Just a year after riding high with record profits, companies are now in slash and burn mode. Valero recently announced it would shut down its refinery in Delaware City, Del.
Nowhere has the cutting been more severe than at Sunoco. That makes for a lot of antsy workers at the company’s Marcus Hook refinery.
They’re not the only ones.
We’ve bailed out the banks and auto industry. We’ve moved to reshape health care. We’ve decided to increase our presence in Afghanistan. Now we’re focusing on Main Street. In particular jobs.
It’s about time.
It comes on the heels of his jobs summit yesterday in Washington, D.C.
Obama will kick off what is being referred to as his Main Street talking tour.
Too bad he couldn’t make a stop at Sunoco’s sprawling Eagle Point Refinery in South Jersey. He might have gotten a better feel for what is happening out there.
Thursday was the last day on the job for hundreds of refinery workers. They're shutting the place down. Many had been there for decades. Finding another job, at a similar salary, will likely be close to impossible. The oil industry is reeling.
Just a year after riding high with record profits, companies are now in slash and burn mode. Valero recently announced it would shut down its refinery in Delaware City, Del.
Nowhere has the cutting been more severe than at Sunoco. That makes for a lot of antsy workers at the company’s Marcus Hook refinery.
They’re not the only ones.
We’ve bailed out the banks and auto industry. We’ve moved to reshape health care. We’ve decided to increase our presence in Afghanistan. Now we’re focusing on Main Street. In particular jobs.
It’s about time.
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