AOC goes for but fails at a "save" over Amazon jobs in NYC

Rep. Alexandria Obviously-Comatose (D-NY) sent out a misleading tweet bragging about a new report that Amazon will be bringing jobs to New York City. She appears to take credit for what is actually a huge screw up on her part.

Last summer AOC went after Amazon after they struck a deal with NY State to open a second headquarters in NY City. The move would have brought 25,000 jobs to the Big Apple and all New York had to do, as they do with many mega companies, is to provide the company with $3 billion in state and local subsidies. Due to AOC's attack on the company, Amazon backed out of the deal.

On Friday, however, it was reported that Amazon was leasing a 335,000-square-foot office space in Manhattan. The move is slated to bring in about 1,500 jobs, not the 25,000 as originally planned.

The low-information socialist celebrated the news on Twitter.

"Won’t you look at that: Amazon is coming to NYC anyway - *without* requiring the public to finance shady deals, helipad handouts for Jeff Bezos, & corporate giveaways," Ocasio-Cortez said. "Maybe the Trump admin should focus more on cutting public assistance to billionaires instead of poor families," she added with obvious envy toward successful wealthy people.

She also posted a picture of herself, taking the credit and sitting on a couch with the caption:

"Me waiting on the haters to apologize after we were proven right on Amazon and saved the public billions." 

Many were ticked off by her "victory lap" and pointed to the math of the jobs that were still lost from her battle with Amazon.

The Daily Caller's Peter Hasson tweeted:

"Another day, another viral misleading tweet from AOC. Amazon is leasing office space in Manhattan for 1,500 employees, which is 6% of the 25,000 jobs its HQ2 in Queens (her district) was supposed to add." 

Caleb Hall, political strategist wrote:

"AOC could have had 25,000 jobs in her district from Amazon, but now, Amazon is only offering 1,500 jobs using rental space OUTSIDE her district. She's taking a victory lap for a 94% loss in jobs in NYC and 25,000 job loss in her district. Socialist logic is incredible."

AOC often lies in her tweet posts and elsewhere. On Thursday she wrote that her family "might've just starved" had Trump tightened requirements for food stamp recipients been the policy when her father died in 2008.

The lie, this time, was how she misrepresented the new rule, which only applies to childless, able-bodied adults under 50.

The socialist tweeted:

“My family relied on food stamps (EBT) when my dad died at 48. I was a student. If this happened then, we might’ve just starved. Now, many people will. It’s shameful how the GOP works overtime to create freebies for the rich while dissolving lifelines of those who need it most.”

Evidently, the only people who would possibly "starve" would be the able-bodied childless adults who refuse to work. And let's be honest, nobody starves in the USA because of the charities and food programs available.

And when her father died, AOC was 19 and in college [which was a waste of tuition] and would have been claimed as a dependent by her mother, so the family would have received the assistance.


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