Quote Originally Posted by Tpoints View Post
Well, my question actually is this : does such a boom bring in more jobs than the oil jobs themselves?

Construction for new houses, food and catering, education, entertainment, transportation, IT infrastructure, city planning...etc.

Why aren't we hearing about this more as a solution to unemployment? Is it because it's not there or not big enough?

Surely, if it was so promising, the employers would advertise in highly unemployed areas to recruit people, right?

Can ND be another Free State project target?
It's because Obama wants to take credit for it. It is a very good thing for the economy, and it is about to make a lot of people rich, especially Obama.