Dumb post even after you tried to edit a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crovash
Point by point………
1 Difference between Long Island City and Jackson Heights is probably 5 miles (or even less). Some people in NYC probably walk 5 miles to avoid transit costs, or ride a bike. 5 Miles is nothing. The distance is even more meaningless in a city that probably has the best mass transit system in the world (London is up there too.).
Anyone else reading this……would your community like to have 20,000 jobs pop up within 5 miles of your community??? You bet they would. (Now start the environmental comebacks.)
2 No one is guaranteed anything. But it is not a stretch to believe that a fair portion of 20,000 jobs popping up 5 miles away would go to some of those people. To add to the point…jobs filled at Amazon by other areas would cause openings in those other areas that could be filled by residents of Jackson Heights.
3 No, not entirely speculation. The construction plans were fairly set, job estimates by people like Amazon would be pretty accurate. The estimates in terms of jobs and $$$ were there and done by professionals that know what they are doing not simply thrown out in a PowerPoint presentation. She cost her people 20,000 opportunities and from what I have seen in pictures of her in her district, these people could use the opportunities.
4. Ocasio Cortez was the pointman on this…there is no question about that.
You're supposed to be some sort of professor??? Professor of what…certainly not economics. You seem to know less about economics that a Manhattan bartender.
Any state would do anything necessary to get a deal like Amazon. Even California, Texas or Florida, the three biggies for jobs that don't need Amazon to be successful, would fight to get this deal. The dimwit blew it. You don't let 20,000 jobs get away…especially when you have them in your hands. The thought of losing jobs is why communities, cities, states fight so hard to avoid base closures, factory shutdowns etc.
She throws out the billions of dollars in tax deals (to the horrifying rich) Amazonn woukd have received and matches that to money we could all use for housing and to feed the poor (them again). All people see is rich get free stuff while we get screwed. They (along with you apparently) cannot comprehend the economic impact of 20,000 jobs. Problem is that you could build housing and feed the poor and nothing would change. The housing would quickly get run down and you would still have the poor crying for more housing and more free stuff..
The problem you have here is that you are trying to justify a really stupid move on this kid's part.
Nothing will change the fact that you totally lost on this one.
