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Definitely a big shame for long term. There are a huge amount of high paying jobs here.
NYC will be wishing they'd kept Amazon once the economy turns and jobs become not as plentiful as they are now.
But, hey, that's alright, the DC area and Nashville will happily take those high paying, average $150k jobs, no worries.
NYC just let a small group of vocal folks hurt a huge lucrative opportunity for the masses with jobs, development and growth. Hopefully this won't be a precedent
Last edited by jjbradleynyc; 02-14-2019 at 12:28 PM..
I heard the Queens City Councilman (forgot his name) defending his opposition. Basically he's saying "basic Amazon didn't want to unionize, didn't support the unionizing in the SI warehouse, they are not welcome". When he was asked "You rather have 0 jobs over 25,000 non-unionized jobs" his answer was that "Cuomo, deBlasio and Bezos were too blame".
Unions are destroying New York. So does the Democrats.
So to summarize the opposition for having 25,000 high paying jobs and revitalize this part of Queens was torpedoed because of:
- Lack of unionized jobs (mind you, that the construction job was supposed to unionized)
- A helipad
- $3B in tax break based on $30B return
I have no words to describe the people who are "happy" and "relieved" that Amazon pulled out.
Good, they said the same thing about Barclays Center, oh but all those jobs... now look at that mess over there, from traffic congestion, higher price rents...millions dollar condos for foreign investors (locals not need apply)...the people loose more than the gains that they try to sell us..
All these high paying jobs is a laugh, they would all go to your Midwesterners trying to live the dream by moving to NYC paying an arm an a leg for a closet just to say they live here.
300 billion dollars in tax incentives that's like welfare on corporate crack, yet most of you on here get mad when someone buys lobster with food stamps at the grocery store...
And they had the nerve to ask for their own transit system, buy you'll get mad because immigrants are taking space in our own decrepit subway system..
This is handouts at the hyper billion dollar level...
Think a web based super Walmart, everything is all in house from warehousing to delivery. They would have no competition, push all small businesses out of business, no incentive to keep wages competitive, how would this be good for the average worker or New Yorker again?
Last edited by Ruready4Bklyn; 02-14-2019 at 01:13 PM..
I heard the Queens City Councilman (forgot his name) defending his opposition. Basically he's saying "basic Amazon didn't want to unionize, didn't support the unionizing in the SI warehouse, they are not welcome". When he was asked "You rather have 0 jobs over 25,000 non-unionized jobs" his answer was that "Cuomo, deBlasio and Bezos were too blame".
Unions are destroying New York. So does the Democrats.
So to summarize the opposition for having 25,000 high paying jobs and revitalize this part of Queens was torpedoed because of:
- Lack of unionized jobs (mind you, that the construction job was supposed to unionized)
- A helipad
- $3B in tax break based on $30B return
I have no words to describe the people who are "happy" and "relieved" that Amazon pulled out.
This man wanted to make sure 25k college professional jobs designed for educated white transplants to be unionized?
I heard the Queens City Councilman (forgot his name) defending his opposition. Basically he's saying "basic Amazon didn't want to unionize, didn't support the unionizing in the SI warehouse, they are not welcome". When he was asked "You rather have 0 jobs over 25,000 non-unionized jobs" his answer was that "Cuomo, deBlasio and Bezos were too blame".
Unions are destroying New York. So does the Democrats.
So to summarize the opposition for having 25,000 high paying jobs and revitalize this part of Queens was torpedoed because of:
- Lack of unionized jobs (mind you, that the construction job was supposed to unionized)
- A helipad
- $3B in tax break based on $30B return
I have no words to describe the people who are "happy" and "relieved" that Amazon pulled out.
Which is ironic because only 20% of New York jobs are unionized in the first place. We are not a union town.
Why was Amazon targeted by these idiots, i have no idea. Its jumping on the bandwagon gone wrong.
The funny thing about AOC is that. The Amazon hq was not in her district.
AOC is a little child screaming for attention. With NYC and NYS revenues declining, as also happening at the Fed levels, who will pay for her wall to wall speed rail so that we dont have to use the plane? They are not enough ultra rich people to fund her programs and if she raises taxes on $250k households the Dems will be kicked out in 2 seconds.
By this time next year her sun will have set when people start having to be pragmatic and when politicians learn that most voters are center left or center right.
Which is ironic because only 20% of New York jobs are unionized in the first place. We are not a union town.
Why was Amazon targeted by these idiots, i have no idea. Its jumping on the bandwagon gone wrong.
But our politicians are owned by the unions. These are folks who have never worked in the private sector and hate the private sector as much as Fidel Castro did.
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