Any city located in a red colored area is straight out. No Amazon for you.
Of course, taxes will be MUCH higher, and the work conditions favor the unions, but Bezos will ensure the political class is well paid to bend the rules for him.
Posted on 09/19/2017 7:14:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The argument “It has to be a local tolerant culture”. AKA - change local ordinances to match Amazon’s politics or you don’t get these jobs?
Well, if Amazon is gonna go all noblesse oblige, I cordially invite them to put their money where their execs’ mouths are and site in Upstate NY. Our ‘Rat and RINO run Utopia ought be just what they’re looking for.
perhaps most importantly — a tolerant local culture.
So the most important thing, it can't be a place where Trump won.
That's my take.
Of course, it's absolute BS that Trump voters are in any way "intolerant", but you know that's what the Left, including and especially Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon AND the virulently anti-Trump Washington Post, believe.
Would love to see this come to Omaha but I don’t think we have enough population. 50k employees would be a tough nut to fill since Omaha Lincoln and Council Bluffs areas are just over 1 million.
Any city located in a red colored area is straight out. No Amazon for you.
Of course, taxes will be MUCH higher, and the work conditions favor the unions, but Bezos will ensure the political class is well paid to bend the rules for him.
Map’s wrong. To our shame, Washoe county didn’t vote for trump by a razor thin fraction of a percent.
That keeps Reno in the running.
Only slightly but then you have the fact that Milwaukee has a history of electing professed socialists as Mayor, as opposed to the crooks and Machine pols in Chicago.
DC was designed by the Founders precisely NOT to be in the hinterland.
I guess one could say DC was far enough South to be able to consider DC the head of the Federal Government (Plantation) and the surrounding land could house the employees (Slaves)
You could point out to 'those' people the REASON there was no 'VOTE'/Representation for the District of Columbia because there were not supposed to be any 'citizens' LIVING in the Boundaries.
Yes, it is a lot more complex than that but I hit on the 'edges'....
DC was a fine capital when the country 'ended' in Ohio.
Remember the early National & American Leagues went no further west that St Louis....
Air travel allowed them to expand.
Time to 'expand' the Nations Cap AWAY from the Atlantic Seaboard.
I don’t think that map is from 2016. The counties are certainly not correct in NC or TN.
That would do no good. We are in the shape we are in because the electorate voted the way they have over the years. It has voted for Big Government, Lying Democrats promising the moon. There was no great conspiracy, no need for one.
This just another quixotic quick fix which would accomplish nothing. Location has nothing to do with lamebrained actions.
When the vast majority of the population has no concept of what the constitution says much less means it is pretty hopeless.
Cities are the center of economic activities for very good reasons which cannot be ignored or wished away. They basically dominate whole regions politically, culturally and economically. In fact, the whole concept of civilization comes from City, that is where the word comes from.
One would grow just from Amazon moving there as they have from the railroads, aviation, oil, steel and the other industries. Chicago and Atlanta are examples of cities that barely existed in the 1860s in comparison to the enormous cities of today.
There are reasons the young and down and out flock to the cities including economic opportunity. Another is a far more extensive Division of Labor providing many more jobs than a small town. We need not get into the cultural advantages.
I guess selfishness on my part.
I live within 100 miles of that zoo and the ‘animals’.
I don’t even (really) mind the ‘squatters’ just get rid of the Government animals.
Good common sense Government (NOW THAT IS AN OXYMORON and a few words that you hardly ever see in the same sentence) should handle the problems.
Like the illegals....dry up the welfare, crack down on illegal hires, follow rules/laws in place and they will self evict themselves.
Infrastructure around here set up PERFECT without out all those distractions.
Not sure which zoo you speak of, not that it matters.
Washington DC
A politician once left and proclaimed it was too small to be a state and too large to be an insane asylum.
Or words along that general line...
Good one. Looking through American history shows that the people have always hated Congress, it is not a new phenomenon.
If the numbers are correct this would mean a new city of 200,000 plus almost overnight. Fifty thousand new jobs - 150,000 total new population from the new jobs alone + another 50,000 to service the new residencies.
This would be about 250,000 an increase in population almost overnight. It would be like a boom town created after the discovery of oil.
Since a small/medium sized town could not accommodate such increases (just housing alone would rule them out) it will be a large city.
Since a small/medium sized town could not accommodate such increases (just housing alone would rule them out) it will be a large city.
= = = = = = = = = =
Going back to square one.
Someone will write a song about the ‘new’ city..including the line....
“I Owe My Soul to The Company Store”
John L Lewis eyebrows will again be in vogue
AND
Tennessee Ernie Ford will put words and music on tape..
Great song and Great man. “Big John” is another.
It is ironic that should Amazon go to a smaller city, it would bring prosperity but would immediately run the town.
I am from such a situation but the good outweighed the bad.
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