Posted on 02/18/2019 9:55:21 AM PST by ETL
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declared victory when Amazon announced Thursday that it would not build a second headquarters (known as HQ2) in Queens, New York. Gov. Andrew Cuomo called it a “lost economic opportunity” and blamed “a small group [of] politicians [who] put their own narrow political interests above their community.”
The dispute between the two Democrats lays bare a divide over the plan to offer $2.8 billion in tax breaks for Amazon to establish a major presence in New York City.
On one side, old hands like Cuomo; on the other, the newly insurgent, left-leaning wing represented by Ocasio-Cortez.
“Today was the day a group of dedicated, everyday New Yorkers and their neighbors defeated Amazon’s corporate greed, its worker exploitation and the power of the richest man in the world,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter. The new development would have been in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, near Ocasio-Cortez’s district.
The outspoken freshman Congresswoman was a critic of the deal Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio had brokered with Amazon.
Cuomo and other supporters of the project said that Amazon would have brought more than enough investment to the city to justify the tax breaks, and would have established New York as a tech hub to rival other hubs like San Francisco.
Additionally, he said, HQ2 would have brought “at least 25,000-40,000 good paying jobs for our state and nearly $30 billion dollars in new revenue to fund transit improvements, new housing, schools and countless other quality-of-life improvements.”
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Me thinks she will be PRIMARRIED IN 2020...................
I love it. Ultra Lib claiming victory over Ultra Libs!
AOC grins like a jackass eating briars.
I’VE MET LOTS OF HER KIND IN ‘DARK ALLEYS.’
Usually negotiating with her customers.................
With NY $2B in the hole (California too) a POX on Dem all:-)
as a NY’er, I celebrate Amazon pulling out of NY too
Progressive leaders here are mini-fascists and communist central planners. They are in love with their power and the fantasy they can “create” prosperity by their own hands. They create political projects with crony-capitalists, and then throw gobs of money at them
5 years ago, Cuomo gave TESLA $750 million and built TESLA a plant to manufacture solar panels. The factory is now finally running, with 10% of the promised employment, producing an old-generation product, using 2nd hand machinery.
This “superstar” is something that should be feared...... by democrats
This imbecile know no bounds. That is one neat thing about being stupid. When you are, you don’t know it.... and the mouth stays stuck in gear.
Good news is they tout her as being leading edge...lol
Democratic leadership. God help us.
***“Today was the day a group of dedicated, everyday New Yorkers and their neighbors defeated Amazon’s corporate greed, its worker exploitation and the power of the richest man in the world,” ****
Sounds like something Marx or Lenin would say, almost word for word. “Corporate Greed,... exploitation of workers...power and riches to the wealthy..”
I’d like to see the woman who beat Ronda Rousey do a little dental work on her.
I’ve watched around 20 interviews with AOC. The impression i get is that she never attended a single class in economics, even though her minor in college was economics.
What was that saying?...
Better to be though a fool than open your mouth and prove it?
Between her and those muslim congress women, their appearance in these numbers is horrifying.... let alone adding in eliason and his ilk.
ha ha
Corporate greed?
That wad neglects the fact that the expansion is due to services being expanded and needed by the constituents of that hub. It’s not corporate greed. It’s a demand that the pubic created and they, the corporation, WAS there to fill that void.
The monkey has it backwards.
Following in Obama’s footsteps. More people on welfare is something to brag about.
Jobs? Yuck!
Leftists don’t give a damn about the condition of the people, despite there incessant protestations to the contrary.
Just take a look at the Leftist Paradise 90 miles off our shores. Why is poverty a requisite for Leftist success?
All Leftists want is endless power.
Plus fame and fortune. Contrary to what they 'preach' to the masses.
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