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2021-10-07 Economy

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Posted by Fred 2021-10-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 some residents and government officials blaming the company for exacerbating homelessness and traffic.

Silly me! I thought the job of city officials was to deal with traffic and homelessness and zombies and such.

Posted by SteveS 2021-10-07 00:23|| 2021-10-07 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 ...government officials blaming the company for exacerbating homelessness and traffic."

Thank god stuff like that's only in Seattle and not places like NYC, LA, Chicago, Boston, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Detroit, Miami, Newark, etc.

Posted by Raj 2021-10-07 01:30|| 2021-10-07 01:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Baltimore, Oakland, DC, Philly, New Orleans, Wilmington, Memphis ...

Posted by Sheba tse Tung4690 2021-10-07 01:43|| 2021-10-07 01:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Will promote liberal policies in their new location.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-10-07 02:42|| 2021-10-07 02:42|| Front Page Top

#5 #3 Yes, and many more but you don't hear so much these days. Media doesn't want to irritate their masters.

Posted by Dale 2021-10-07 04:12|| 2021-10-07 04:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Then the company backed a slate of city council candidates who lost.

I'm as against Seattle's nutso government as anyone, but doesn't it strike anyone as bad that a megacorp can just run its own candidates in elections so as to alter the government in its favor? It's like something the villains do in a modern comic book.

Posted by Blinky Pholuling8616 2021-10-07 06:02|| 2021-10-07 06:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Seattle writes an ordinance prohibiting companies from leaving Seattle in 5... 4... 3...

Yes they are that arrogant.

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-10-07 06:58|| 2021-10-07 06:58|| Front Page Top

#8 None of the city pols have ever played Simcity.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-10-07 07:53|| 2021-10-07 07:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Or read Atlas Shrugged.

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-10-07 08:51|| 2021-10-07 08:51|| Front Page Top

#10 On the bright side, think of all the empty office and warehouse space for the ~~drug addicts, crazies and criminals~~ homeless to romp in.

Posted by Unereper Whinesh6702 2021-10-07 09:46|| 2021-10-07 09:46|| Front Page Top

#11 Good luck finding a blue city that isn't "coyote ugly crazy".

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-10-07 12:20|| 2021-10-07 12:20|| Front Page Top

#12 #6, developers in California do it all the time.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-10-07 12:21|| 2021-10-07 12:21|| Front Page Top

#13 You can tell by the suburban sprawl.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-10-07 12:22|| 2021-10-07 12:22|| Front Page Top

#14 Many US companies that become successful rotate personnel through retirement, pass the baton on to a younger generation who had no part in the painful process of establishing the business in the garage and then growing it into something successful. That next generation usually do just the opposite which is use the company name for promoting liberalism. That goes for the community around the company.

Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-10-07 13:06|| 2021-10-07 13:06|| Front Page Top

#15 With our public education system the way it is look for what's wrong with Seattle to become what's wrong with middle America.

Posted by jpal 2021-10-07 13:23|| 2021-10-07 13:23|| Front Page Top

#16 They probably have had some sort of contingency plan for a while now.

Perhaps link the fulfillment centers to HQ to do HQ work and lease a bundle of other places.

If not, they will be robbed on their way out.

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-10-07 14:43|| 2021-10-07 14:43|| Front Page Top

#17 I'm as against Seattle's nutso government as anyone, but doesn't it strike anyone as bad that a megacorp can just run its own candidates in elections so as to alter the government in its favor?

Interestingly, none of the candidates backed by the megacorp of megacorps won.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-10-07 18:04|| 2021-10-07 18:04|| Front Page Top

#18 ain' nobody love a oligark

Posted by Diogenes 2021-10-07 18:53|| 2021-10-07 18:53|| Front Page Top

#19 This is *SEATTLE*. Who knows who actually won?

Seattle, and King County have always been the test bed and incubation center for all sorts of election tampering. From ballot harvesting to having 130% voter turnout (50,000 invalid votes? Well we can't take them out now since we don't know how they voted...)

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-10-07 19:54|| 2021-10-07 19:54|| Front Page Top

#20 Exactly. With all that has happened, and some Big Backing, not a single defeat.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-10-07 20:48|| 2021-10-07 20:48|| Front Page Top

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