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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ugggh.  You remind me of the excellent candidates who telephone obsessively to demand how they "came up short" when they were not selected.  It's not a failure.  Someone/Some place had to be chosen.[/quote]

Yet you care enough to open the thread and post a comment. Losing doesn't equate to failure. But make no mistake, Montgomery County/MD lost this bid to a local competitor, and if that doesn't concern you in the least then stay content.[/quote]

In my opinion, Montgomery County won. [/quote]

And this is how the ostrich buries it’s head in the sand.[/quote]

No. It means that $8.5 billion for Amazon would have been a terribly wasteful use of public money.[/quote]
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Or perhaps more aptly, the grapes are too sour. [/b]
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[b]No, really. It means that $8.5 billion for Amazon would have been a terribly wasteful use of public money. Had Amazon decided to locate at White Flint without the economic incentive package, I would have been really happy. For $8.5 billion - no way[/b].[/quote]

DP here. Honestly, MoCo winning Amazon would've been more of a marketing advantage to attract other businesses here. It would've been cool for like a month until the reality sunk in that we just gave away billions of dollars with already overcrowded schools and one of the worst traffic in the nation. Not to mention it's not like all those jobs would've gone to Marylanders anyway.  The cool thing about the DMV is that it's easy to get a job in DC, MD, NoVa, regardless of where you live. No thanks. We dodged a bullet. I'm all for businesses coming here but this wasn't the right deal for us. Arlington at least has the metro lines and the VRE to handle the transit issues. We have the red line and crazy 270. [/quote]

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