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2019-02-15 Economy
Progressive lawmakers cheer Amazon's HQ2 reversal
[New York Post] Opponents of Amazon’s plan to come to Queens were popping the champagne corks Thursday after the company announced it was backing out of the deal, with some calling it a major victory for the progressive movement.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called the decision a victory over "corporate greed" and over the retail giant’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos.

"Anything is possible," the Bronx/Queens Democrat tweeted. "Today was a day a group of dedicated, everyday New Yorkers & their neighbors defeated Amazon’s corporate greed, its worker exploitation, and the power of the richest man in the world."

She later incorrectly claimed the $3 billion in subsidies that would have gone to Amazon could be used to hire teachers, fix the subway and "put a lot of people to work."
Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-15 08:06|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ]  Top

#1 Hopefully Bezos won't move the new location to Toronto.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-15 08:10||   2019-02-15 08:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Who wants $150,000/year jobs when you can flip burgers and make change for $10, $12, $15/hour?
Posted by Glomogum Angusogum9874 2019-02-15 11:13||   2019-02-15 11:13|| Front Page Top

#3 From "You didn't make that," to "We aren't going to let you make that." Next up, abortion prior to conception...
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-02-15 11:23||   2019-02-15 11:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Neurosurgeon making the same as a janitor will work like a janitor. Dedication has nothing to do with it.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-02-15 11:24||   2019-02-15 11:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Should we have stocked up on popcorn for this?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-02-15 11:25||   2019-02-15 11:25|| Front Page Top

#6 "Let's really rub Amazon's nose in it. We'll go on strike from the jobs we didn't get. That'll show those evil capitalist bastiges we can't be bullied."
Posted by SteveS 2019-02-15 11:55||   2019-02-15 11:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Turn about is fair play. Bezos gets screwed by his own politics.
Posted by warthogswife 2019-02-15 12:01||   2019-02-15 12:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Bezz-OS. The operating system that reboots just before the payoff...
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-02-15 12:39||   2019-02-15 12:39|| Front Page Top

#9 When the revolutionaries become the counter-revolutionaries, they must be smashed.
Posted by swksvolFF 2019-02-15 12:41||   2019-02-15 12:41|| Front Page Top

#10 When they drive out all the businesses, only then will they find they have no more power.

Then they will ask for a government bailout.
Posted by DarthVader 2019-02-15 12:50||   2019-02-15 12:50|| Front Page Top

#11 I seem to remember. A culture built on cheap (er, basically free slave labor) lost out to a culture that was industrialized.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-02-15 12:53||   2019-02-15 12:53|| Front Page Top

#12 History was never the strong suit with this group, MM.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-02-15 14:03||   2019-02-15 14:03|| Front Page Top

#13 Cuomo is really P.O.ed at AOC. I anticipate bad mojo is sent AOCs way by some on the now conflicted leftist camp, Stalin Style.
Posted by Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2019-02-15 14:25||   2019-02-15 14:25|| Front Page Top

#14 Cuomo is really P.O.ed at AOC. I anticipate bad mojo is sent AOCs way by some on the now conflicted leftist camp, Stalin Style.

Might not be a bad idea to assign some very discreet Secret Service people to watch over AOC. Be a shame if someone were to be apprehended (and thoroughly interrogated) attempting to do her harm.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-15 14:49||   2019-02-15 14:49|| Front Page Top

#15 Uh oh; a Trotskyite?
Posted by swksvolFF 2019-02-15 16:35||   2019-02-15 16:35|| Front Page Top

#16 ...they'll try to tag it on the Trumpsters.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-02-15 20:08||   2019-02-15 20:08|| Front Page Top

#17 "So how'd it happen Chief?"

"Well, there she was waiting in line for the grand re-opening show of Rent when two white males with red hats attacked, screaming 'This is MAGA country!'"

"Bet they had a pickup truck too Chief."

"Yes they did. Yes they did."
Posted by swksvolFF 2019-02-15 20:25||   2019-02-15 20:25|| Front Page Top

#18 I saw a new meme on the internet today: "MABA: Make Alexandria a Bartender Again"
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2019-02-15 23:48||   2019-02-15 23:48|| Front Page Top

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