AOC's push to kill Amazon jobs in NYC under renewed scrutiny amid job huge losses

As the Big Apple goes through an economic crisis along with the Chinese Communist Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic, some city officials are now regretting the leftist campaign that got Amazon to rethink it's plan to bring about twenty-five thousand high paying jobs to the city.

“At this time when coronavirus is ravaging incomes across New York, wouldn’t it be nice if the city and state at least knew that one of the world’s largest companies, one of the rare concerns positioned to thrive through the crisis, had made a long-term commitment to locate between 25,000 and 40,000 high-paying jobs here?” an editorial in the New York Daily News said.

It isn't as if Amazon wasn't considering headquartering its company in Long Island City, in Queens, but the economic genius of socialist Rep. Alexandria Obviously-Comatose, and several equally as stupid state senators, rallied to block the move last year. They hated the idea that the state would offer the company incentives to locate there, but that would be to everyone's benefit. These cretins had zeroed in on the estimated $2.5 billion that the company would receive to move there, and since none of that would be going into their own pockets, the put the kibosh on the deal.

The criticism from the city paper comes amid estimates from the city’s Independent Budget Office that New York City could lose 475,000 jobs by next March and see a $9.7 billion decrease in tax revenue over the next two years, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The brilliant AOC tweeted at that time:

"Now what I DON’T want is for our public funds to be funding freebie helipads for Amazon + robber baron billionaires, all while NYCHA and public schools go underfunded & mom+pops get nowhere near that kind of a break."

It was a battle that AOC, and other idiot local Democratic politicians, won when in February 2019, Amazon announced it was taking its jobs elsewhere.

Slow clap for socialism and envy.

"For Amazon, the commitment to build a new headquarters requires positive, collaborative relationships with state and local elected officials who will be supportive over the long-term,” the company said in a statement. “While polls show that 70 percent of New Yorkers support our plans and investment, a number of state and local politicians have made it clear that they oppose our presence and will not work with us to build the type of relationships that are required to go forward with the project we and many others envisioned in Long Island City.”

Good for Amazon.

It infuriated even fellow Democrats like the other Cuomo braintrust, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, brother of Chris "I Now Ascend From My Basement" Cuomo. He blasted “a small group of politicians [who] put their own narrow political interests above their community.”

But, in their defense, at least they weren't responsible for killing 4.800 nursing home residents like the governor.

Now, with Amazon acting as if they were printing their own money, now that they have become an essential service for Americans trying to get their goods while avoiding brick-and-mortar stores, some are questioning the socialist- inspired lobbying effort once again.

"The impact of AOC's reckless scuttling of the Amazon deal cannot be overstated. Not only did AOC cost New York 25,000 good-paying jobs, she sent a message to job creators everywhere that they were no longer welcome in her city,” Alfredo Ortiz, CEO of Job Creators Network, told Fox News.

“With New York City expected to lose 500,000 jobs due to the pandemic, AOC's brand of left-wing politics has no place in New York or anywhere else,” he said. “Only by unleashing the spirit of free enterprise can our economy recover, something AOC would never understand."

And this is a woman who majored in economics at Boston College. The school should required to refund her tuition.

AOC is now facing a primary challenger, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, who isn't shy about citing the Amazon debacle to show how the socialist former bartender is out of touch and doesn't give two rats' tushes about those she pretends to represent.

Like AOC, Caruso-Cabrera has a hyphenated last name but it certainly isn't "Comatose."

“If she really cared, she wouldn’t drive away 25,000 jobs like she did,” Caruso-Cabrera told Yahoo News recently.

AOC is playing out of her league and has no business be in Congress, unless it's in Russia or Venezuela.

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