Let’s wrap this Freepathon up, Folks!
Posted on 02/15/2019 8:24:12 AM PST by jazusamo
The typically liberal New York Times Editorial Board blasted Democratic leaders in a scathing piece on Thursday about Amazon backing out of plans to bring 25,000 jobs to the Big Apple – which the paper calls an “embarrassment to the city.”
Mayor Bill de Blasio responded to the news that Amazon backed out by declaring,” “You have to be tough to make it in New York City,” which is a statement the Times didn’t appreciate.
“What a strange thing for the mayor to take pride in. It’s certainly true that you have to be tough these days. But that’s because the subways don’t work, the streets are gridlocked, the housing is unaffordable, the shelters are overcrowded, and the schools are segregated and often inadequate,” the Editorial Board wrote.
The board then reminded readers to “think how much tougher it’ll become for the typical citizen,” as opposed to “the ones who ride in chauffeured government cars” if the city develops a reputation of “for the smugness of its politicians and their hostility to business.”
The Times then admits the deal had issues, but it feels that doesn’t justify the shock loss of 25,000 jobs and roughly $27 billion in tax revenue over the next 20 years.
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Good luck to both sides.
Let’s wrap this Freepathon up, Folks!
Segregated schools? In liberal New York? How can this be?
Occasional-Cortex will bring jobs to everyone. She has a plan to provide everyone with a job digging and filling holes. They will even be paid whether they show up or not. If they need more money, the fed can simply print it
Segregation in the exam schools——not enough blacks and Hispanics make the cut-——that is their idea of segregation.
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Arrogance combined with ignorance never ends well and New York currently is the poster child for hubris.
Amazon 2 is now coming to Texas.
You take the good and the bad with it.
I’m sure the Slimes will endorse Wilhelm for whatever office he runs for next.
I’ve no doubt you’re right, all will be forgotten.
Komrad Deblasio and the Komrad Cortez nitwit are representative on NYC citizens’ attitudes. The representative system works in that you usually get the candidate that most resembles the attitudes of the electorate who voted for them and they were duly elected by a majority of the voters in their oblasts. This really says more about the values of the jackasses who live in “the city” than politicians’ individual loathsome personalities.
Yes, I understand that sentiment - plus their paywall complicates the matter. My comment wasn’t meant as a criticism of you for posting, but more about the article author and the websites that specialize in these sorts of articles. It’s just astonishingly lazy journalism. Unless the article in question breaks new actual news ground, just rewriting their words with a bunch of “they then said” framework is a dopey way to make a living.
The Times has an impressive list if why MY sucks, they left out the sky high taxes.
No problem, FRiend and I meant no criticism. I really do bigly dislike them. :^)
Amen to that.
The actual liberals of long ago (as opposed to today’s Leftists) welcomed new jobs, and retaining old ones. They knew that more jobs was better, even as they had not a single clue as to how to create more of them...but at least they weren’t so stupid and/or bat$hit crazy as to actively try to destroy jobs.
So, either the NYSlimes editorial board is composed of the old kind of liberal or, as I suspect, one or more of them was counting on making a lot of money off of this new Amazon HQ in some way.
It’s still a problem that all these like-minded intellectual “elites” at the NY Times can’t figure out why NYC has all those problems.
I really wish we were dealing with stupidity at the Slimes.
Unfortunately, it smells live raw evil.
The democratic politicians in NYC has replaced the 5 families (mafia) to shakedown legitimate businesses in the city.
So Amazon customers will save having to pay an extra 27 billion dollars over the next 20 years?
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