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"We know the game is rigged": NYC mayor slams Amazon HQ2 reversal
In a New York Times op-ed published Saturday evening, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio condemned Amazon for its decision to pull the plug on its HQ2 expansion in Queens, calling it a byproduct of massive economic power concentrated in the hands of few wealthy corporations.
As the mayor of the nation's largest city, a place that's both a progressive beacon and the very symbol of capitalism, I share the frustration about corporate America. So do many of my fellow mayors across the country. We know the game is rigged. But we still find ourselves fighting one another in the race to secure opportunity for our residents as corporations force us into all-against-all competitions.
Amazon's HQ2 bidding war exemplified that injustice.
Previously: Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday February 18 2019, @04:18PM (1 child)
NYC does not have a track record of refusing big developers. When they wanted to build the Barclays Stadium in downtown Brooklyn, the city steamrolled all the citizens and local politicians to do it. The same thing happened with the new Yankee Stadium. They laid out the red carpet for Google on the West Side of Manhattan. So why would they block Amazon now?
The location for the HQ was perfect for Amazon, and NYC. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post, whose grandiloquent new slogan, "Democracy Dies in the Darkness," was fawned over by progressives for months, and which has served as one of the two standard bearers for the Resistance. Bezos bankrolls progressives. Progressives living in NYC themselves love Amazon, because the company happily and freely delivers child-labor produced goods from around the world to their doorsteps.
If they did in fact block this deal because of people like the Cortez girl, then man are they inviting the mother of all backlashes. Progressive extremists in NYC are vocal, but they are a distinct minority. They will get swept out of office in a thrice by regular New Yorkers who are, at the end of the day, practical.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @07:11PM
but just like in california the parasitic state socialists (or whatever they are) attach themselves to areas with private business success and try to extort everyone in the area. i was surprised amazon even entertained this fool hardy plan in the first place.