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[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]

But you're missing one key point: Maryland CHOSE to offer that $8.5 billion incentive package. There had to be a feeling it was the only way to stay competitive, and just about every local and state official praised the deal - saying it would all be worth it to land the biggest economic prize in the country. Now obviously that was based on getting the whole thing, all 50k jobs. But still, doesn't it say something that they felt they had to offer that much? Imagine if Amazon split HQ2 between Arlington and MoCo ...and Maryland residents found out their neighbors to the south bid 1/8th of what they did for the exact same prize? [/quote]

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