Profit is the first goal of all businesses that wish to prosper. There is the chance that if Amazon did locate their headquarters in New York that they eventually would "run out" because of the New York insane tax situation which must, and therefore will only continue to get worse, so businesses and residents will continue to leave for greener pastures, where they can survive.

Without having a clue, it would seem that AOC had done Amazon a great long term favor, but not so the people she is supposedly representing.

[quote=charles tabb]Government Shutdown
The shutdown has hit everybody really hard even those not getting their wages.

Excellent humor!

Just a thought, you may want to change your "people" headshot?!?

Well done...curious and fascinating!

Mr Burleigh, the truth of your comment is actually funnier than the joke that started these now 7 pages.

SO beautiful a custom. This video brought me tears...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI2c9yptr4U

Perfect! I was wrestling about what to say to the humorless...

Then, since I misunerstood, you have my apologize...as weagree.

You just made my point. To be liberal is to escape reality.

Or, perhaps on the wrong ones?!?

That's a shame as it;s your loss, but if you can read, you are #2

I love 'em both! So very funny.

Aren't you a lovely piece of liberal s...!!

I suppose that on Google one can find the answer one favors:

In fact, regardless that he expressed his opinion in classically inelegant Trumpian terms, the president is correct in at least this: The state of California has been doing an awful job of managing its forests.

The degree to which that mismanagement contributed to this latest round of wildfires may be called into question, but the fact of the state’s mismanagement itself is beyond doubt.

The non-partisan California Legislative Analyst’s Office released a report entitled “Improving California’s Forest and Watershed Management” in April of this year. In a related fact sheet, they recognized that “[m]ost of the forests across the state are in an unhealthy condition.” They further stated that overgrown, unhealthy forests resulted in “increased risk of severe forest fires” and recommended actions to thin California’s many overgrown, unhealthy forests that have developed in the name of environmental puritanism.

And no, this sad situation is not the federal government’s fault. While the feds own the land on which the wildfires occurred, the Bureau of Land Management delegated its authority to manage that land—and most of the rest of the federally owned forests in California—to the state’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) as part of that agency’s State Responsibility Area (SRA) a long time ago.

The fire that consumed Paradise, California, occurred in a part of Northern California within the state’s SRA, as is most of the state outside of the deserts in Southern California. Some say these fires started in the high chaparral, a bush-like vegetation that is unrelated to forestry management. Perhaps that is the case.

Whatever the facts, no one can question that the fires started in a part of the state for which California itself is wholly responsible for fire protection and that California’s irresponsible forest-management practices are sure to lead to more fires in the future. It’s just a matter of time.

Excellent work. Thanks for sharing it.