new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez was a major critic of the original plan and tweeted, amazon is coming to new york city anyway without requiring the public to finance shady deals, hel ipad handouts for jeff bezos and corporate give a ways. so she s waiting for her apology. yahoo finance reporter sibile marcellus joins me and also with me is congressman gregory meeks who represents queens as well. congressman, quickly, your colleague there, aoc, says she s waiting for her apology. will you apologize for well, no, actually i think that she s wrong when you talk about a couple thousand jobs as opposed to 25,000 to 30,000 jobs, you are talking about jobs that are low salary as opposed to jobs that were going to be six figures or more, you are talking about the loss of opportunity for many of our universities and schools to have opportunities to improve. you talk about people in public
housing who would have had an opportunity to make sure they would qualify for some of those jobs. it s not the same thing. it s apples and oranges. the investment from what we were looking at with the $3 billion investment, the return would have been closer to 30, 40 billion dollars. so just looking at the return on investment just shows you that it just did not add up. so you re still a little salty that this went away from last year. yeah, and the fact that it went now to manhattan, we lose out in queens, i m a queens-ite so i want it for queens. i understand. sibile, bringing you into this conversation. why were there so many leaders like aoc and bernie sanders so opposed to amazon building its next headquarters in the city? because here is the thing, amazon is one of the largest e-commerce countries in the country, it s already hit the $1 trillion market value. now, it does fluctuate, but it hit that highmark. so what you have aoc, alexandria ocasio-cortez and bernie
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incentives and that s what amazon was negotiating with local and state leaders in order to move a headquarters and actually establish it in new york city. so that s the biggest issue. so now you have aoc and bernie sanders saying, we re vindicated because, look, amazon still wanted the talent, the deep bench of talent in new york city, they re still coming but now new york city taxpayers aren t paying for t bernie sanders is saying that they re not going to be getting corporate welfare. why do we actually need bernie sanders and aoc, who doesn t represent that particular district, getting into the local affairs of new york city and that district? any idea? i know that if you look at the congresswoman who represents the area, if you look at the assemblywoman that represents the area, if you look at the people in public housing i ve talked to and the pastors there they re all for they were for amazon moving in and wanted to make a difference. so i think that if you listen to every