Amazon recently announced it will add 5,000 jobs at regional shipping and customer service centers across the country. President Obama scheduled a visit an Amazon warehouse Tuesday and praised the company as a job creator for America. This is wrong on so many levels.
An administration spokesperson noted, “The Amazon facility in Chattanooga is a perfect example of the company that is investing in American workers and creating good, high-wage jobs.”
Balderdash. The fact is, Amazon is a net destroyer of jobs, not a creator. Amazon alone cost the economy more than 42,000 jobs at local and independent businesses in 2012, Continue reading “Amazon, job destroyer”
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