Mr. President, Senators, and Representatives,
I would like to express my extreme displeasure at the way you look at your homeland. You stare at it with greedy eyes, reminiscent of the cartoon characters we used to watch on Saturday mornings. Your soul eats evil green paper like it is the food of the gods and your belt of morality gets tighter and tighter until you take it off and all you have left is your hunger.
This is unacceptable.
America is not a run down gas station that needs more brown oil oozing through its cracks and faults. It is not a bank account that you can withdraw from and then, when you're overdrawn, you just get a slap on the wrist.
America is a landscape, a factory, a conversation. It takes effort, critical thinking, and maintenance, not magic, petty grovelling, and band-aid solutions. We are better than that. You are better than that. Wake up and realize this.
To my point, Representatives and Senators who have supported the Keystone XL Pipeline:
Shame on you. You are lacking in perhaps the most important aspect of governance and that is working towards sustainability. The founding fathers wrote the Bill of Rights knowing full well that it would have been easier to explicitly state all of the rights that individuals, state governments, and the federal government had because limitations would make working within the system easier. However, they knew that it was not sustainable and they had to reach a compromise that allowed for ambiguity, uncertainty about the changing times, in order to maintain a thriving United States.
The bill you are pushing through has no such concessions for uncertainty and evolution of American culture. It is a bedazzled eye-sore that you are forcing, unwanted, upon us American citizens who still believe that this crazy system is working.
Mr. Obama:
It has come out that, while you may still veto the approval of the Keystone Pipeline, you may use it as a bargaining chip in the future. Mr. President, our country is not a bargaining chip and if you think that our country only extends to the urban environments, then you are sorely mistaken.
The facts are there: the jobs created by the Pipeline are temporary and we could be putting our construction industry to far better and more sustainable use. The pipes are structurally strong in the middle, but the junctions are untested, which is where leaks occur. Most of the revenue that is expected to come out of this project will not even stay in the US. By enabling Canada's fracking, which is widely accepted as a danger process for both the human and environmental elements, the US would send a message to the world that the end, however temporary, justifies the means.
But clearly facts are not at play here. Science, once picked up by the political system, becomes meaningless. And it is for this reason, that I am imploring you on the basis of your humanity, your appreciation of beauty, and your faith in the American people to take the high road: Please do not approve of the Keystone XL Pipeline.
We are better than that.
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