A state already reeling from tax revenue loss misses out on at least 25,000 new jobs.
The speculation turned out to be authentic. On Thursday, Amazon officially reneged on its New York City headquarters. The rumor that it would do so first appeared last Friday in The Washington Post, which disclosed that “Amazon.com is reconsidering its plan to bring 25,000 jobs to a new campus in New York City.” The Post elaborated, “The project … faces withering criticism from some elected officials and advocacy groups appalled at the prospect of giving giant subsidies to the world’s most valuable company, led by its richest man.” A man who, by the way, owns The Washington Post.
“After much thought and deliberation, we’ve decided not to move forward with our plans to build a headquarters for Amazon in Long Island City, Queens,” Amazonannounced yesterday. Why? “A number of state and local politicians have made it clear that they oppose our presence and will not work with us to build the type of relationships that are required to go forward with the project we and many others envisioned in Long Island City.”
One of those politicians is actually Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who crowed about having “defeated Amazon’s corporate greed, its worker exploitation, and the power of the richest man in the world.”
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15 comments:
Love it when a plan comes together. Cortez the idiot.
AOC may have just torpedoed her career with this. She just pissed off a bunch of very powerful paid off liberal NY politicians. Lovin' every minute of it!
Love it
"...Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who crowed about having “defeated Amazon’s corporate greed, its worker exploitation, and the power of the richest man in the world.”
Read it this way: Defeated profits from a wildly successful corporation; defeated bring 25,000+ good jobs to the area; and the Golden Rule, "He who has the gold makes the rules".
Nobody asked this idiot woman what she would recommend be put into its place. I would really be interested to know.
Yupp, open your mouth more and see how much more damage you can cause, moron!
Cortez, dumber than candle stubs in your garden.
AOC a no hit wonder
AOC mimics MD annoplois democrats
AOC THE 15 MIN represetative
AOC one term wonder
well maybe now her mic and media darling persona will be turned off now. she needs to sit down and shutup before she f's something else up
Leftist cannabalism. Eat each other.
This is the best case of KARMA I have seen in a long time. N.Y. goes out and elects someone whose elevator does not even go half way to the top floor and now they can not shut her up. LOL!!!!!
Guess Bezos won't be sending her selfies now.
And look for her coverage by Washington Compost, which he owns, to get more critical.
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What I can't seem to understand is why Cortez isn't learning or embarrassed by her stupid statements.
Dumber than concrete in your boot.
This is a good example of how liberal Democrats kill jobs.
She's a socialist. This is what they do. She won't be reelected.
It will be difficult to create a bigger screw up. She literally ran 25,000 jobs out of your district.
Yep..she committed political suicide. Love it
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