Monday, February 22, 2016

Oklahoman tells public to "Get over it!" after Devon announces lay-offs




When Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy Corp. announced last week it would lay off 700 local employees, the Oklahoman took to print to scold the public sector's refrain for more money and the lay-off's represent "the hard reality of life."  Loosely interpreted, the worst newspaper in the country has said, "Get over it."

The day before the Devon announcement, the paper criticized Bernie Sanders for "climate change alarmism platform."  Clearly, Inhofe is enshrined in the hallowed halls of the Oklahoman and lauded for his 'concrete proof' there is no global warming.  

So now with a number of unemployed people entering the local economy (Devon employs about 2,500 people in the OKC area), with education funding being cut again it's almost laughable that the Oklahoman contends that "fossil fuels are here to say".  They have a very skewed definition of a renewable energy source.

Dr. Funk included this passage from the Oklahoman in his blog:

This is the hard reality of life in the private sector. The U.S. energy industry is in the spotlight today, but any business — restaurant, IT firm, florist, you name it — that wishes to survive must adapt in order to do so. It's a lesson the public sector would do well to embrace. Instead, “more money” is the usual refrain, and all too often any talk of trimming or changing is dismissed, as we saw at the Legislature this week with a modest consolidation bill involving small, low-performing school districts


This means "Get over it!  That's life.  It's tough all over.  Don't even think of asking for more money, public sector.  Particularly, you the lowest funded educational system in the nation!"

http://okiefunk.com/content/oil-patch-layoffs-show-need-sensible-long-range-energy-policies

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