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De Blasio: ‘There Is Plenty of Money…in This Country, but, it’s in the Wrong Hands’
CNS News ^ | February 19, 2019 | 10:14 AM EST | Craig Bannister

Posted on 02/19/2019 7:24:23 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

“I say, there is plenty of money in this world, plenty of money in this country. But it's in the wrong hands,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) declared on Sunday.

Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” de Blasio claimed that Amazon’s decision not to open a corporate headquarters in New York City is proof that wealth is in the hands of the wrong people:

“Let's be clear: No one chased away. This was Amazon's arbitrary decision. We had an agreement. If I made an agreement with you, and there were issues that came up, but we had an agreement, you wouldn't call me in the dead of night and say, 'Hey, we're taking our marbles, and we're going home.' Let's be clear about who made this decision. And this is the problem.

“When you have so much wealth and power in the hands of very few, it does not work for working people. I say, there is plenty of money in this world, plenty of money in this country, but it's in the wrong hands. And Amazon is making my point for me. What they did was arbitrary and unfair to working people."

Mayor de Blasio also argued that progressive policies can both redistribute wealth and stimulate economic growth:

“I think the challenge is to show we can do both, and in New York City we are doing both. We have 4.5 million jobs; we’re raising wages; raising benefits, giving people universal health care. We’re proving that progressives can achieve those things.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: amazon; billdeblasio; deblasio; embarrassment; socialism; socialist
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Bildo DaBloviator. Ecch!


21 posted on 02/19/2019 7:46:53 PM PST by W. (Natty Light: The beer so nice, you'll taste it twice!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sounds like something a Bank Robber would say.


22 posted on 02/19/2019 7:47:21 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: taterjay

Baffled me that they would even want to build a large business complex in NYC, when the cost of land acquisition, permits, union-only construction costs, kickbacks, utilities, etc are multiple times what they would be elsewhere in the country.


23 posted on 02/19/2019 7:49:29 PM PST by digger48
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To: Lurkinanloomin

If all the money in the country was evenly divided within two generations it would all be back just the way it is. Most people only know how to spend money.


24 posted on 02/19/2019 7:49:43 PM PST by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Screw “fair”. This ain’t the schoolyard.


25 posted on 02/19/2019 7:49:46 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
“I say, there is plenty of money in this world, plenty of money in this country. But it's in the wrong hands,”

He's right. Just to name a few:

  1. George Soros
  2. Jeff Bezos
  3. Michael Bloomberg
  4. Senator Dianne Feinstein and hubby
  5. Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and hubby
  6. The Kennedy Family
  7. Oprah Winfrey

And the list goes on and on and on and on...

26 posted on 02/19/2019 7:50:42 PM PST by ssaftler (Beam me up, Scotty! There's no intelligent life left in this country!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Why don't that Marxist jerk use his real name?
Tell us Mr. Warren Wilhelm Jr
27 posted on 02/19/2019 7:52:11 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

1935 movie “Make a Million” Econ prof says “The only thing wrong with money in the country today is the wrong people have it. Fortunes are being amassed by ninconpoop millionares who have attempted to set up an aristocracy of wealth instead of by achevement” Sound familiar?


28 posted on 02/19/2019 7:54:58 PM PST by Caribou ( www.ktok.com Red State Radio free streaming.)
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To: Caribou

What a fascist commie cuck.


29 posted on 02/19/2019 7:59:15 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Oh, he sure is a commie f*cktard, isn’t he, our Comrade Wilhelm...


30 posted on 02/19/2019 8:07:15 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yes, the wrong people have all the money. I want to be the guy who gets to decide who gets what.


31 posted on 02/19/2019 8:08:19 PM PST by marron
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To: Fiddlstix
Bill de Blasio

Warren Wilhelm Jr

32 posted on 02/19/2019 8:29:14 PM PST by chief lee runamok (expect nothing)
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To: taterjay
Unfair and arbitrary to Wilhelm’s working people. NY isn’t the only place that has working people. If I was Amazon I would go inefficient and put people to work in 10 different places to spite Wilhelm, and Cuomo.

I've been following the issue in the Puget Sound Business Journal. When Seattle announced the tax on jobs, Amazon announced they would not occupy a building to which they had committed; they would sublease the space.

When Amazon announced NYC was a no go, they took pains to emphasize there was no change in their employment plans in Seattle...no additional jobs.

Amazon has been shopping for office space/buildings on the Eastside (across Lake Washington from Seattle) specifically Bellevue. They have committed to or have inquired about space sufficient to house...25,000 workers. Bellevue has a very friendly and supportive business climate and city government.

Quite the coincidence.

33 posted on 02/19/2019 8:51:50 PM PST by gogeo (Liberal politics and mental instability; coincidence, correlation, or causation?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Come and get some.


34 posted on 02/19/2019 9:00:38 PM PST by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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To: Seaplaner

Have we EVER seen proponents of such ideas act as altruistically as they advocate everyone else do?


35 posted on 02/19/2019 9:14:31 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“Yes, it is in the wrong hands.
The government should take a lot less.”

You win the internet. No way to improve upon this post. :-)


36 posted on 02/19/2019 9:31:31 PM PST by plain talk
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To: G Larry

In the hands of those that made it. Will these leftists corporations ever realize the truth?


37 posted on 02/19/2019 9:40:29 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Po widdo Biwwy got his po witto feewings huwt...aw...


38 posted on 02/19/2019 9:41:24 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives numerous, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
De Blasio: ‘There Is Plenty of Money…in This Country, but, it’s in the Wrong Hands’...


39 posted on 02/19/2019 10:02:51 PM PST by caww
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

there’s a TON of money in the wrong hands, he’s correct!!!!

we can fix this problem by taking away about half of what we send each year to WashDC


40 posted on 02/19/2019 10:06:48 PM PST by faithhopecharity (E)
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