{"id":9128,"date":"2019-02-20T14:41:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T13:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9128"},"modified":"2019-02-20T14:41:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T13:41:57","slug":"empire-state-of-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9128\/","title":{"rendered":"Empire State of Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a revealing statement by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex regarding her campaign to prevent Amazon setting up a headquarters in New York:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">There was little in the fuzzy proposal that guaranteed jobs for actual NYers, yet lots of hard concessions from the public.<\/p>\n<p>Queens saw how the FoxConn\/Wisconsin disaster is working out &#8211; a $4.5 billion nightmare &#8211; &amp; asked Qs.<\/p>\n<p>The response? \u201cThis is above you, you won\u2019t get it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1098008417015418881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nOn this issue AOC sounds like a celebrity reading a list of raffle prizes she&#8217;s not seen, and it&#8217;s obvious she&#8217;s being fed responses to those querying her plans to spend the $3bn Amazon tax break on other stuff (<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/02\/17\/de-blasio-says-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-didnt-understand-amazon-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">yes, really<\/a>). But look at that first line again:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There was little in the fuzzy proposal that guaranteed jobs for actual NYers<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So who would have got the jobs, then? Out-of-towners? Foreigners? My guess is unions objected to the fact that Amazon&#8217;s 25,000 workers would not be unionised (and maybe not even American). Fine, but why is it okay for foreigners to take American jobs but New York jobs must only be for New Yorkers?\u00a0It&#8217;s funny how parochial these open-borders advocates become when it&#8217;s their own interests under threat, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a revealing statement by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex regarding her campaign to prevent Amazon setting up a headquarters in New York: There was little in the fuzzy proposal that guaranteed jobs for actual NYers, yet lots of hard concessions from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9128\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9129,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128\/revisions\/9129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}