The recent loss of 25,000 jobs proposed via Amazon's deal designed to set up a new headquarters in Long Island City is directly attributable to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her band of left-wing New York City politicians. The Democratic Socialists of America's protests against the LIC HQ have forced Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to find another location for his company's facility.
The socialists opposed Amazon's plans in Queens based on claims that they were not adequately brought into the planning phases of the HQ. This is certainly not a valid excuse for denying New York City residents honest paying work in a city that boasts gargantuan costs of living and high poverty rates.
Imagine if one of GM's or Ford's plants had been protested and forced out of a city because of socialist ideology in the 1950s. It wouldn't have been allowed to happen. Why would Americans sabotage their families and Main Street by preventing a formidable job-creator to inject its dollars and influence in their hometowns?
A congresswoman's influence has affected not only constituents in her district, but over eight million New Yorkers in one of the biggest cities in the world. What other businesses will be denied entry to New York City because of socialist inclinations? How many families have lost out on honest pay in order to stroke Ocasio-Cortez's ego? How long before the socialists target the private affairs of entrepreneurs and small business-owners? The DSA's activity is a clear declaration of war on American capitalism and our respectable culture of honest work. First they came for our jobs — what will they come for next?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/the_socialists_declare_war.html
New York Dems at war over Amazon headquarters flap
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio tore into rookie Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez when she gloated about playing a big role in the decision by Amazon not to open a second headquarters in Queens.
"As a progressive my entire life — and I ain't changing — I'll take on any progressive anywhere that thinks it's a good idea to lose jobs and revenue because I think that's out of touch with what working people want," the mayor said on WNYC radio.
Ocasio Cortez (D-Bronx/Queens) — who lobbed bombs at the $3 billion incentives package offered by city and state leaders — said Thursday that Amazon's withdrawal from the deal showed that "everyday Americans still have the power to organize and fight for their communities and they can have more say in this country than the richest man in the world."
You've got to spend money to make money, and while one could argue that the incentive package offered by the city and state was excessive, you have to remember that New York City was competing against several other cities. The fact is, 25,000 jobs just don't fall into your lap like manna from heaven, and Ocasio-Cortez's gloating about New York city losing that bonanza angered de Blasio:
"I came up watching the mistakes of progressives of the past, unfortunately what happened in this city when it almost went to bankruptcy in the 1970s," said a boiling de Blasio. "I saw all the times progressives did not show people effective governance and all the times progressives made the kinds of mistakes that alienated working people."
"Working people are very smart and very discerning. They want jobs, they want revenue, they want the kinds of things that government can do for them," he added. "They understand they have to be paid for."
Ocasio-Cortez's "victory" was perhaps the stupidest thing she's done yet.
This is almost unbelievably stupid. Obviously, there is no "$3 billion dollars that we were willing to give to Amazon." No one ever proposed to give money to Amazon. Those were dollars that "we" hypothetically would have refrained from collecting from Amazon. Those dollars do not exist. They are not in the possession of New York State or any other public entity. They cannot be "invest[ed] in our local community." The absence of those funds will not "allow our subway system to crumble." No one has ever proposed "giving away our infrastructure, our schools, our teachers' salaries, our firefighters' budgets," to Amazon or anyone else.
This isn't complicated stuff. If Ocasio-Cortez is really this stupid, she shouldn't have graduated from high school. She certainly shouldn't be representing many thousands of constituents, who must assume that she is of at least average intelligence, in Congress.
Her level of intelligence doesn't matter to her legion of Twitter fans, who thinks she is leading the way to a socialist paradise. Ocasio-Cortez has learned that parroting socialist nonsense about "exploitation" and other Marxist bromides will take her a lot farther than impressing us with her vast intellect.
De Blasio may be a radical progressive himself, but he needs the people of New York to vote for him. Even the dumbest politician knows that bringing 25K jobs to the city would be a political boon. The spat over Amazon's headquarters has divided Democrats in the city and could cost Ocasio-Cortez local support.
And it gives national Democrats more of an excuse to try to get rid of her in 2020.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/new_york_dems_at_war_over_amazon_headquarters_flap.html
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