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U.S. House Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other New York politicians just chased off 25,000 Amazon jobs that could have created salaries of at least $115,000 jobs each. Unfazed and stunningly arrogant, these politicians are taking a victory lap following their dubious success.

CCN reported earlier today that Amazon had scrapped the spacious campus it had planned to build in Long Island City, Queens, which would have created roughly 25,000 well-paying jobs. The residual job creation was estimated to be an additional 67,000 jobs.

The cheers that followed Amazon’s decision to pull out of New York are misguided and troublesome. Too many politicians seem tone-deaf to traditional ideals, like job creation, in their relentless effort to denigrate anything related to big money.

Read the full story on CCN.com.

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Talk about getting what you paid for!  The voters of New York's area that elected AOC have reaped what they have sewn and wow how quick they reaped it too.  Such a saavy economic darling she is to she should be in line for countless Honorary Economic Degrees from such prestigious colleges such as Columbia, Princeton, Yale, Harvard and Cornell.  They might even hold a place open for her and award her a professorship a s this girl has potential I tell ya.  What a Represenative for her district, I wonder how much more "good" she can accomplish in the remaining time she has in office?  

Given the recent abortion bill passed by the New York State legislature now Karma blesses them with AOC's move. What is really amusing about this is just how proud AOC is of what's just come down and she views it as a great victory for New York.  

L. Cranston posted:

When it comes to hating poor people and loving corporations, nobody does it better than Conservatives.

Really?  Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon.com, GM, and on and on and on ... Some of the biggest companies and entities around as well as the richest and who do they support?  DEMOCRATS!  These are led and run by liberals and Democrats who hate Republicans.  As for Democrats loving the poor I can believe that because in the Democrat led and governed cities they keep so many in the poverty group.  

Aside from politics I've heard, or read, a statement somewhere that went something like ... "I've never seen a poor person create on job".  Essentially what they were saying is people lambast the rich all the time but it's those people and our capitalistic society and style of Government that not only creates so many jobs but creates wealth enough to even allow American poor to have a better standard of life than poor elsewhere throughout the world yet we (Americans and America) are so bad and terrible that people from all over are risking death to come to our nation.  Amazing!

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Naio posted:

gop:  Corporations are people, too.  Money is speech.  Citizens United.

Also gop: Our poors are better than yours.

Let's see how this plays out:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news...on-deal-with-foxconn

https://www.theguardian.com/te...tory-10bn-build-jobs

Naio, you're quoting left wing blogs and forums. Not the SCOTUS decision.  Corporations as people had nothing to do with it.  Corporations as entities (persons) date from the 1700s, at least, in English law.  Dutch, to a degree, as well.  That allowed a limited risk investment and allowed corporate officers to sign contracts.  Citizens United decision was for the investors, not a corporation as a person.  In short, the government had limited free speech of investors because they invested in a corporation.  That was overturned by the majority decision by SCOTUS.  

"The majority wrote, "If the First Amendment has any force, it prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech."

"The majority ruled that the Freedom of the Press clause of the First Amendment protects associations of individuals in addition to individual speakers, and further that the First Amendment does not allow prohibitions of speech based on the identity of the speaker. Corporations, as associations of individuals, therefore have free speech rights under the First Amendment. Because spending money is essential to disseminating speech, as established in Buckley v. Valeo, limiting a corporation's ability to spend money is unconstitutional because it limits the ability of its members to associate effectively and to speak on political issues."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

I despair that the Democrats posting here will even attempt to understand the above.  The left appears to suffer from invulnerable ignorance -- an inability to learn, if such disagrees with their beliefs.  As I've said in other ways,  that's the way of a primitive mind. 

 

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