Amazon pulls out of plan to build New York City headquarters after backlash

With globalism the wealthy and big companies can run from it. That only leaves small business and the middle class.....

 

Nope.....and those Blue Dogs wont be voting for Demos like they use to.

Hopefully they will wake up and realize all that Democrats can do.....is lead them to failure.

 

Oh you mean like Chicago and Illinois Democrats. Imagine that.

 

Which are the two groups hurt the most by the dnc

 

Good thing Trump is solving the Court problem for the next 50-60 years.

 

Sticking by DC, Amazon won't replace scrapped NYC campus.....

Amazon, the e-commerce giant that planned to split a second headquarters between New York and Washington, D.C., won't try to replace the Big Apple campus scrapped because of opposition from local lawmakers.

Instead, the Seattle-based company said in a statement Thursday, it will proceed "as planned" with an office for 25,000 people in northern Virginia, part of the D.C. metro area, and a Nashville, Tenn., operations center slated to employ 5,000.

Among them was U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a freshman Democrat who had argued that Amazon shouldn't be given $1.5 billion in incentives while the city is struggling to maintain its subways and many residents struggle to find affordable housing.

Anything is possible," she said Thursday on Twitter. "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," a reference to founder Jeff Bezos, who controls a fortune of more than $130 million.


https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...ped-nyc-campus


Lmao.....Corporate Greed. Soon she will have the Demos donors keeping their hands in their pockets.

 

You are either trolling, joking or exhibiting the fact you know nothing about business and economics.

 

Kind of like the Demos and Chicago along with Illinois. Causing major businesses to leave the state. Losing Sears, Caterpillar, just to name a couple of the major ones. Now more and more leaving. Along with the people that are fed up with all the taxes the Demos come up with.

 

So, you could get $30 billion in taxes over 10 years and 25,000 jobs if you didn't have to sweeten the deal to get the deal.

A lot of other cities want the new employer, so to be sure your state and city gets the deal you sweeten the deal with a $3 billion reduction in taxes and you only get $27 billion and all the sales tax, income tax, etc., that 25,000 new jobs will bring ya. Ya keep 90% of the loaf, plus a lot more money will be coming into state and local coffers.

Amazon says okay, we're comin' to ya! It's a no brainer, take the deal, keep the deal.

But NY throws dirt in Amazon's face. UFB! UFB!

Their Mama's must be teaching them that nothing is better than something.

 

So you don't know what is taking place in Tennessee. Oh and as to Texas.....of course. They are showing California actually how to get a High Speed Train project set up and done. Without stealing money from people of Texas and the Federal Government.

 

Yep, and when the taxes go up and services go down people leave and the problem gets exponentially worse.

It breaks my heart to see what's happened to Chicago and Illinois. I was born in the Windy City and I still have family there, but most of us left like so many other people are doing.

I just looked at a Chicago Tribune article published two months ago and the title is "Illinois Population Declines for Fifth Year In a Row". 45,000 residents bailed last year.

 

Yup, 700,000 people have left IL the last decade, me included. There's a reason you see so many Cub fans on Cub road games, they've all left for greener pastures.

 

Now that was funny. Somebody needs to send her that.

 

LOL - And then there's Milwaukee. Did you hear how the Brewers are trying to keep Cubs fans from buying tickets to their home games?

700K's an astonishing number. That's about a tenth of the population of the state I live in (Virginia). We left Chicago in the late '60s.

 

Convenience sells. Always will sell.

That's why we have the internal combustion engine and always will -- because people don't want to walk and ride bicycles. People want to be fat, lazy, and die of complex, expensive diseases -- because it is convenient. They make a pill for whatever may befall a human being that makes it out of the womb. The pill may not work but by Jove they got a pill for everything.

So kick back, be happy, take the pills.

Science says you should take the pills.

 

She says no.....but she is facing ethics questions.


Uh Oh: Did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Commit An Ethics Violation With Revelation Of Her Boyfriend’s Congressional Email Account.....


Well, social media was set ablaze when Luke Thompson, a political consultant, noticed that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s (D-NY) boyfriend had a congressional email account. Is he on staff? And if he is, doesn’t that constitute an ethics violation? AOC’s staff vociferously denied that this was the case, calling out Thompson for lying, who was briefly suspended from Twitter (via NTK Network):

Fox News has more:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is facing ethics questions after revelations the freshman lawmaker's office gave her boyfriend a congressional email account.

The democratic socialist waded into the issue in response to a tweet alleging boyfriend Riley Roberts had been put on staff. The tweet included a screenshot of an official House email address. Ocasio-Cortez insisted that he was only given the email account so he could access her calendar.

But Jason Chaffetz, former chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said Ocasio-Cortez' claims don’t stack up.....snip~

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattv...at-she-committed-an-ethics-violation-n2541561

 

25,000 jobs with an average salary of $150,000 per year. Gone.

Liberals just don't get it.

 

imo jobs are now the enemy. Jobs keep people standing on their own two feet rather than becoming bottom fishing clients of government. Jobs stymie the bureaucracy from expanding even further and from making more people dependent.

Trump is doing jobs in spades, and since Trump is the enemy, jobs are the enemy.

 

If NYC plans on committing economic suicide in 11 years, you won't see me cry a single tear. Even better, if NYC can talk Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle and a few other hyperliberal pest-holes into doing the same thing it could be a cause for a genuine American Rebirth and Renaissance!

BTW, Miami would not be a bad choice, either, although it is a much longer flight on down to South Florida than a flight to and from Atlanta. But, hell, almost anything would be better than getting sucked up in the congested, miserably expensive nightmare of the Northeast

 

Hence the minimum wage.

 

The DP will probably primary AOC out of office for this.
I will miss her.

 

Does this mean States like NY won't have to continue to finance the rest of the country anymore?

A large segment of those exiting are snowbirds, they return in May

As Sinatra said, "if you can make it here (NY), you can make it anywhere," those people leaving couldn't

 

I feel the same. Born in Chicago. Moved to burbs at 2yrs. Lived in IL and Chicago through University and first job on Wacker north of Michigan Ave. Still have one relative in North burbs. IL used to be an okay place to live always with lots of good jobs. Chicago's crime is south and near west side and always has been. It is still a beautiful city but taxes to live in or within 60 miles are making many leave.

 

All of that sprawl stretches down to DC now - I bailed out of that area in the early '80s and never looked back. I can't live anywhere north of Fredericksburg, VA along the I-95 corridor anymore. Don't need to, don't want to.

Speaking of which, the other area where Amazon is locating one of its new HQs, Crystal City, VA, is pretty congested, too. That area's probably going to be a total cluster-foxtrot after they move in. The traffic up there is already a nightmare...

 

Times have changed and demographics shift. Many cities that made this country what it is are not what they once were. Chicago's motto always used to be "The City that works" That was when every major manufacture had to have a presence there. Most manufacturing has left now for more business friendly environments.