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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Massive NYC billboard: "THANKS FOR NOTHING AOC!"

Job Creators Network, a nonpartisan organization founded by entrepreneurs such as Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus, purchased a billboard in New York City slamming socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for killing about 25,000 jobs for New Yorkers offered by Amazon that would have generated billions of dollars in economic activity and even would have enormously helped her constituency who wanted Amazon to locate in the Big Apple.

"It comes after Ocasio-Cortez vigorously defended her role and kissed her image in the mirror after sinking Amazon’s move to New York City on Tuesday in the face of bipartisan criticism," Fox News reported. "The freshman Democratic New York congresswoman has faced days of criticism from normally friendly media voices and fellow Democrats over her role in Amazon's decision to pull back from building a $2.5 billion campus in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens."

The Democrats still don't get it that most normal people, once they understand what socialism is, are not in favor of it.


The billboard, located on 42nd street near 8th Avenue, reads:

25,000 Lost NYC Jobs
$4 Billion in Lost Wages
$12 Billion in Lost Economic Activity for NY
Thanks For Nothing, AOC!

After enduring days of blistering criticisms, including from local Democrats like New York City Mayor and Communist Bill de Blasio, Ocasio-Cortez exploded in a Twitter rant. 

The Daily Wire reported:

On Tuesday evening, Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez issued a series of tweets defending her role in ultimately killing the Amazon HQ2 deal, which would have brought 25,000 jobs to her district and nearly $30 billion in tax revenues to the state, and emphatically asserting that she does "understand" how tax incentives work.

The defensive thread was prompted by criticism from Crain's New York Business editor Erik Engquist, who said that while he usually defends the democratic socialist congresswoman as intelligent, her troubling comments about the state "invest[ing] those $3 billion" instead of supposedly giving it to Amazon has left him speechless.

Enquist tweeted:

"I’ve been telling @AOC critics that she is smart, but what do I say when she says nonsense like 'we could invest those $3 billion in [@amazon tax breaks] in our district. We could hire more teachers. We can fix our subways, we can put a lot of people to work for that money.'" 

AOC responded:

"Not sure how many pundits talking about Amazon even read the deal or where it was going. $500+ million of the deal was *capital grants.* $2.5 billion in tax breaks. It’s fair to ask why we don’t invest the capital for public use, + why we don’t give working people a tax break."

And again tweeted:

"Frankly, the knee-jerk reaction assuming that I 'don’t understand' how tax giveaways to corps work is disappointing. No, it’s not possible that I could come to a different conclusion. The debate *must* be over my intelligence & understanding, instead of the merits of the deal."

Last week, even New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, whose corporate taxes in the state have sent businesses packing their bags, took aim at Ocasio-Cortez and other far-left New York Democrats in a statement for killing the Amazon deal:

Amazon chose to come to New York because we are the capital of the world and the best place to do business. We competed in and won the most hotly contested national economic development competition in the United States, resulting in at least 25,000-40,000 good paying jobs for our state and nearly $30 billion dollars in new revenue to fund transit improvements, new housing, schools and countless other quality of life improvements. Bringing Amazon to New York diversified our economy away from real estate and Wall Street, further cementing our status as an emerging center for tech and was an extraordinary economic win not just for Queens and New York City, but for the entire region, from Long Island to Albany's nanotech center.

However, a small group of politicians put their own narrow political interests above their community — which poll after poll showed overwhelmingly supported bringing Amazon to Long Island City — the state's economic future and the best interests of the people of this state. The New York State Senate has done tremendous damage. They should be held accountable for this lost economic opportunity.

The fundamentals of New York's business climate and community that attracted Amazon to be here - our talent pool, world-class education system, commitment to diversity and progressivism - remain and we won't be deterred as we continue to attract world class business to communities across New York State.

It's beginning to look as if AOC's perky smile, her dancing and her cooking aren't impressing the left like it began, but the public has yet to catch on.

The truth is, AOC doesn't even know what she doesn't even know.


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