The best way to help the poor is to get them off the dole and onto jobs where they can find some personal pride.

OH wait a minute; the pipeline besides generating union jobs will open the opportunity for thousands and thousands of ancillary jobs to support the project and it's maintenance in the years ahead.

OK, that's a way to help the poor. Get them off the dole and into employment. That can also be helped by get government out of business's way through business tax cuts, capital gains tax cuts and eliminating taxes on any money brought back into the U.S.

That's another way to create jobs and help the poor.