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2019-02-17 Home Front: Politix

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is destroying opportunity for fellow Democrats

[New York Post] Congratulations, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez! You just killed 25,000 jobs for urban Democrats in one of the most racially and ethnically diverse areas in the entire world!

Congresswoman AOC, the thought leader of the Democratic party, was the loudest and feistiest political opponent when Amazon announced it would build (half of) its second headquarters in Long Island City, Queens, promising to create 25,000 jobs and generate some $27.5 billion in tax revenue over the next 25 years. Amazon employs a range of people from unskilled workers to tech geniuses and would have pumped large amounts of money into the city economy. It estimated the average salary of its New York City workforce would have been $150,000. Real-estate prices in Long Island City jumped 15 percent since Amazon’s announcement last November.
"thought leader" - faint praise
But after Amazon walked away in an anti-Valentine to the city on Feb. 14, AOC bragged on Twitter that "everyday New Yorkers & their neighbors defeated Amazon’s corporate greed, its worker exploitation, and the power of the richest man in the world."

Huh? A Siena poll this week showed that New York City residents approved of the deal by 56 to 33 percent. Fellow Democrats Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio were pushing hard for the deal. Oh, and it need hardly be stated that Amazon is a company staffed by Democrats. Some 87 percent of its employee donations went to the Dems in the latest elections. As for "richest man in the world," Bezos started Amazon in his garage. He got rich building one of the most beloved companies on earth.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-17 02:54|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 I don't like Amazon, and I don't like AOC. Popcorn.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-02-17 03:24|| 2019-02-17 03:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Fresno
Buffalo
Detroit

Amazon should have gone there and gotten very favorable publicity

Posted by lord garth 2019-02-17 07:47|| 2019-02-17 07:47|| Front Page Top

#3 ....but where is the power in there? Then there is an issue all such corporations look at, security. Those cities that treat crime as a social illness rather than the crime for which it is seem to get more rather than less. Not very inviting for those shopping for viable locations.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-02-17 08:16|| 2019-02-17 08:16|| Front Page Top

#4 I look for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to be a one-term rep.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-02-17 09:17|| 2019-02-17 09:17|| Front Page Top

#5 I look for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to be a one-term rep.

Most likely, but she is coming in and going out like a wrecking ball!

Posted by DarthVader 2019-02-17 09:52|| 2019-02-17 09:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Amazon got a break of approx. 3 Billion in taxes from New Yawk out of 27 Billion it was expected to pay over ten years IF its new HQ was approved. IF it was NOT approved then Amazon would walk away from th deal and go to Virginia. The deal was NOT approved..SO Ocasio Cortez got absolutely ZERO..no 27 Billion in Taxes SO no 3 Billion break...but that was OK since Bezos will hardly miss it, since he won't pay any taxes anyway and he seldom does...BUT he does make enormous profits. Which is business as it should be. Try it, you'll like it.

And Ocasio Cortez is looking at NO jobs and NO taxes and the money she THOUGHT was available for anything for her district doesn't exist, let me repeat that...money from Cuomo DOESN't exist. A great Victory for the Left. Yeah, an empty bag and a dried up brain.
Ocasio Cortez gets nothing, let me repeat that...NADA, ZIP, Zilch.
What a victory for the Left. NOTHING. What a victory for Occasion Cortez. Let's do that again.
I just can't get over this girl's financial acumen and her sheer GENIUS.

Posted by Bill Tojo1485 2019-02-17 10:11|| 2019-02-17 10:11|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 I look for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to be a one-term rep.

Most likely, but she is coming in and going out like a wrecking ball!
Posted by DarthVader 2019-02-17 09:52

As I recall, her district is a gentrified area of the Bronx and is as shallow as it comes. So, she's a symptom not a trend.

Posted by Almost Anonymous5839 2019-02-17 10:22|| 2019-02-17 10:22|| Front Page Top

#8 I just can't get over this girl's financial acumen and her sheer GENIUS.

A bachelor's in Economics and she was working as a bartender. Seems like evidence of something.

Posted by SteveS 2019-02-17 10:26|| 2019-02-17 10:26|| Front Page Top

#9 Economics today seems to be Marxism and how to hide it.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-02-17 13:16|| 2019-02-17 13:16|| Front Page Top

#10 ...at least Marxist understand you need other people's money to run out of.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-02-17 13:35|| 2019-02-17 13:35|| Front Page Top

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