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So politicians can just along garbage and lies with no recourse? I wouldn’t roll over for a politician using tweets to garner favor. AOC cost NY tons of money

So politicians can just along garbage and lies with no recourse? I wouldn’t roll over for a politician using tweets to garner favor. AOC cost NY tons of money and jobs because no one pushed back on her rhetoric.

gaspard234 6y ago
> no one pushed back on her rhetoric. This is absolutely false. Fox news is practically obsessed with her[0]. I heard various talking heads on all types of media talking about how she didn't know anything about 'business', most mocking her past job as a bartender. I'm not a huge fan of any politician but you probably picked the worst example, she can't post a tweet without the right wing media machine raising hell. During the last election she was also primaried hard, and some of the biggest criticisms were here anti-business/amazon stances. [0]https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2019/04/14/study-fox-news-obsessed-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/3466493002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2019/04/14/study-fox-...
brown9-2 6y ago
Amazon is continuing to hire and grow in NYC, even without HQ2 and the special tax breaks: https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-continues-expansion-in-new-york-city-even-after-hq2-debacle/ https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-continues-expansion-in-new-...
- marcusverus 6y ago
  Amazon is adding ~2,000 jobs. That's <10% of the number that NYC would have gotten out of HQ2. I understand the aversion to granting tax breaks to big companies, but IMO the whole debacle just looks like NYC politicians are more interested in maintaining their political bona fides, more interested in vague notions about Amazon's 'fair share' than they are in the long term well being of the local economy.
  - brown9-2 6y ago
    It’s more than 2000: > The new tech and corporate jobs add to Amazon's announcement in December that it would hire 1,500 more New York workers Let’s see how many workers they’ve added in NYC a few years from now. I bet it ends up close to that 25k number anyway.
amznthrwaway 6y ago
If AOC was a right-winger, you’d frame it as her protecting the free market, keeping the government from choosing winners/losers, and exercising good governance and small government.

gaspard234 6y ago

> no one pushed back on her rhetoric. This is absolutely false. Fox news is practically obsessed with her[0]. I heard various talking heads on all types of media talking about how she didn't know anything about 'business', most mocking her past job as a bartender. I'm not a huge fan of any politician but you probably picked the worst example, she can't post a tweet without the right wing media machine raising hell. During the last election she was also primaried hard, and some of the biggest criticisms were here anti-business/amazon stances. [0]https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2019/04/14/study-fox-news-obsessed-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/3466493002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2019/04/14/study-fox-...

brown9-2 6y ago

Amazon is continuing to hire and grow in NYC, even without HQ2 and the special tax breaks: https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-continues-expansion-in-new-york-city-even-after-hq2-debacle/ https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-continues-expansion-in-new-...

marcusverus 6y ago
Amazon is adding ~2,000 jobs. That's <10% of the number that NYC would have gotten out of HQ2. I understand the aversion to granting tax breaks to big companies, but IMO the whole debacle just looks like NYC politicians are more interested in maintaining their political bona fides, more interested in vague notions about Amazon's 'fair share' than they are in the long term well being of the local economy.
- brown9-2 6y ago
  It’s more than 2000: > The new tech and corporate jobs add to Amazon's announcement in December that it would hire 1,500 more New York workers Let’s see how many workers they’ve added in NYC a few years from now. I bet it ends up close to that 25k number anyway.

amznthrwaway 6y ago

If AOC was a right-winger, you’d frame it as her protecting the free market, keeping the government from choosing winners/losers, and exercising good governance and small government.