I'm sure they paid off some and then they came back with their hands out. Amazon realized they would have to pay every step of the way. That probably wasn't as big of an issue as the blacklash and disgruntled locals making a big stink like AOC. Combine those two things and you are bleeding money for who knows how long with the awful local climate. Amazon said nope!!
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That's built into the cake.Zemira said:
I'm sure they paid off some and then they came back with their hands out. Amazon realized they would have to pay every step of the way. That probably wasn't as big of an issue as the blacklash and disgruntled locals making a big stink like AOC. Combine those two things and you are bleeding money for who knows how long with the awful local climate. Amazon said nope!!
You have to pay every stripper that gives you a lap dance. You can't tell the 2nd one, "I gave to your sugarplum friend, already." Once you get your wallet out... you have to pay everyone in line.
Again, if they didn't know that, then shame on them.
THAT is the reason it was such a surprise they named NY and why it isn't a surprise they pulled early.
A guy I work with down here is from Long Island and his brother still lives up there. They were excited to see Amazon scrap it because he said they really don't have the infrastructure for that large of a facility. That's a legit reason for not wanting it, not the BS AOC spews.
I had heard that the costs for improving infrastructure to support that size of a facility were an issue but didn't think it was a deal killer.agdaddy04 said:
A guy I work with down here is from Long Island and his brother still lives up there. They were excited to see Amazon scrap it because he said they really don't have the infrastructure for that large of a facility. That's a legit reason for not wanting it, not the BS AOC spews.
agdaddy04 said:
A guy I work with down here is from Long Island and his brother still lives up there. They were excited to see Amazon scrap it because he said they really don't have the infrastructure for that large of a facility. That's a legit reason for not wanting it, not the BS AOC spews.
It is the ignorance of the Liberal.
If you have a facility that large, you invest to support it and it will sustain on the mutual investment. You end up with a net-positive area you once didn't have, rinse, repeat... profit. Conservatives and Capitalism growths, people live happier lives.
OR... sink the investors coming to town, to prevent jobs and growth, so the peasants remain on the plantation dependent on Government. Liberalism grows, Big Gov types depend on Gov, misery continues, but Liberals remain in control and power.
aggiehawg said:I had heard that the costs for improving infrastructure to support that size of a facility were an issue but didn't think it was a deal killer.agdaddy04 said:
A guy I work with down here is from Long Island and his brother still lives up there. They were excited to see Amazon scrap it because he said they really don't have the infrastructure for that large of a facility. That's a legit reason for not wanting it, not the BS AOC spews.
Amazon should have done an economic analysis long before they decided to pick the location. They shouldn't have gotten past first glance, if that were the case.
You've got to remember it's not as easy to improve infrastructure in a sense area like that as it is in Texas. After looking over the area I'm shocked that Amazon picked it at all.
DallasAg 94 said:aggiehawg said:I had heard that the costs for improving infrastructure to support that size of a facility were an issue but didn't think it was a deal killer.agdaddy04 said:
A guy I work with down here is from Long Island and his brother still lives up there. They were excited to see Amazon scrap it because he said they really don't have the infrastructure for that large of a facility. That's a legit reason for not wanting it, not the BS AOC spews.
Amazon should have done an economic analysis long before they decided to pick the location. They shouldn't have gotten past first glance, if that were the case.
Political considerations (ironically) nudged Amazon to pick political power centers of NY and Virginia.
From a business perspective, those are horrible places to locate. You have to pay your people significantly more for the same standard of living as even an affluent center like Dallas.
When the politicians in NYC stop kissing their ace, amazon rightly told them to shove it. It only made sense if they were on board with them to make it easier to do business.
Guess maybe Bezos isn't as smart as people give him credit for.
Cepe said:
Wow. Her grasp of the Amazon situation is incredibly childish.
Her entire life is incredibly childish. This girl acts like she's in the seventh grade or something. Immature, stupid, emotional, idiotic.
In Fact, I actually known many seventh graders in my lifetime that have been way more mature and smart and she is. So that's an insult to the seventh graders.
We all THOUGHT it was going to be a business decision. We realized it was a political decision, based on the selections.Aston04 said:Political considerations (ironically) nudged Amazon to pick political power centers of NY and Virginia.DallasAg 94 said:
Amazon should have done an economic analysis long before they decided to pick the location. They shouldn't have gotten past first glance, if that were the case.
From a business perspective, those are horrible places to locate. You have to pay your people significantly more for the same standard of living as even an affluent center like Dallas.
When the politicians in NYC stop kissing their ace, amazon rightly told them to shove it. It only made sense if they were on board with them to make it easier to do business.
Based on them pulling out, it was either a dumb selection, or they've over-estimated their growth and are down-sizing the expansion and this is just an excuse. Maybe they decided to downsize and so, they split the number, in order to negotiate each against the other, and move forward with the better site, and blow up the relationship.
Doubt all that... I think it blew up (cost and politics) and they just scrapped it and it was just a terrible decision to begin with.
I think the stat I saw was that Amazon owns 20% of all downtown Seattle. That will be fun to watch... to see their implementation of Socialism. At some point, they have to help the homeless... amirite?!
Time will tell.
RAB91 said:
She may have hit a new low. This chick is so effing stupid.
She was less than a month old when the wall fell. She doesn't know **** about actual communism or socialism working in the real world. It no wonder since the USSR broke up when she was a kid.
I was only 6 but I still know what the wall was and learned historically what happened. I admit in school a lot of historical things were just a high level concept; as an adult I can read the actual history and understand what was going on during different times.
She is literally clueless. I would say she's dumber than dirt, but that's an insult to dirt.
AOC has not tweeted in a couple of days. Think someone told her to stop with the tweets?
If you think I am a liberal, you are incorrect. Assume sarcasm on my part. Sorry if something I post has already been posted.
When is the last time she has been "seen" in public?
Surely this isn't another RBG countdown?
Surely this isn't another RBG countdown?
I beleieve that Bezos thinks the future of his company will eventually be in the hands of the media and in the courts. That eventually Amazon is going to get sued for some misdeed like Microsoft was. He's buying the Washington Post, he's planting his company's economic power in DC communities where his workers will live alongside those that work for the highest levels government. I think he thought he would get the same kind of pr coup by doing the same thing in NY and by gentrifying Queens, but i think he realized that what he was going to get from the NY media was actually a bunch of **** for it and he's already involved himself in a different war with tabloid media already.
I agree, and he's correct.
He's built an enormous entoerprise that is pure capitalism and his biggest threat isn't the free market - it's the growing anti-capitalism sentiment in this country.
He's under attack from the media. He's under attack from his own liberal employees. He's under attack from from local giverbment at their HW (Seattle). He sees the attack coming from the federal government.
His only viable counter strategy is to embed himself with liberals everywhere and be seen as "one of our own" or an exception to their proposed new rules.
Honestly I don't think it will work though. The glue for the left is always victimhood and that's just not a profile he can pull off.
He's built an enormous entoerprise that is pure capitalism and his biggest threat isn't the free market - it's the growing anti-capitalism sentiment in this country.
He's under attack from the media. He's under attack from his own liberal employees. He's under attack from from local giverbment at their HW (Seattle). He sees the attack coming from the federal government.
His only viable counter strategy is to embed himself with liberals everywhere and be seen as "one of our own" or an exception to their proposed new rules.
Honestly I don't think it will work though. The glue for the left is always victimhood and that's just not a profile he can pull off.
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He's built an enormous entoerprise that is pure capitalism
Pure capitalism doesn't involve economic incentive checks or tax abatements from the government.
A pure capitalist will absolutely try to negotiate down their tax bill to benefit their bottom line, which is all an incentive is
Capitalism should fight against all taxes
Capitalism should fight against all taxes
That video is funny. Must watch TV.
I was 13 when it fell so I didn't understand the significance of it at the time. One thing I do know is that I listened to stories from my granfather (WWII Army Air Corps) whenever he felt like talking about the world growing up. I also asked questions as I valued his real world experience. People like Ocasio-Cortez consider what people like my grandfather have to say as uneducated because he never owned a computer or smartphone and would tell you his thoughts in ways so blunt and frank they would REEEEEEEEEEEE.Zemira said:RAB91 said:
She may have hit a new low. This chick is so effing stupid.
She was less than a month old when the wall fell. She doesn't know **** about actual communism or socialism working in the real world. It no wonder since the USSR broke up when she was a kid.
I was only 6 but I still know what the wall was and learned historically what happened. I admit in school a lot of historical things were just a high level concept; as an adult I can read the actual history and understand what was going on during different times.
She is literally clueless. I would say she's dumber than dirt, but that's an insult to dirt.
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She is literally clueless. I would say she's dumber than dirt, but that's an insult to dirt.
Plus, even common dirt can and does produce things of real value. AOC? Not so much.
At some point in time someone around her is going to have to pull her aside and say "hey, take it easy."
Her problem is that she thinks she knows everything and is surrounded by people who won't correct her.
Her problem is that she thinks she knows everything and is surrounded by people who won't correct her.
Did her boyfriend, the one that may or may not be on her Congressional staff, provide that crap to her? Isn't he is in cyber somehow?
Wow. Someone has very thin skin.
And is she trying to insinuate that the majority of immigrants in NY are illegal and need to be worried about ICE?
I think she just called Amazon a racist company.
You can tell from her tweet storm just how much heat she's feeling from blowing up the Amazon deal and costing the area all of those jobs and economic activity.
And yet she's still too dumb to just STFU for a couple of weeks.
You can tell from her tweet storm just how much heat she's feeling from blowing up the Amazon deal and costing the area all of those jobs and economic activity.
And yet she's still too dumb to just STFU for a couple of weeks.
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