i think both you and hooker have your minds made up and search the internets grasping for evidence to support your position. you're trying too hard. you want her to be stupid, so bad. the trumpster says take the guns first, then issue the warrant, clearly ignorant of the rule of law. yet you don't think he's stupid? that's because you don't want to. you want to believe he's smart. smart people say dumb things. she's been in office 2 months. last year she was a bartender. she's new to the limelight and not used to a microphone being in her face 18 hrs a day. she'll get wiser, but to say she's dumb is disingenuous.
as for this specific example, maybe what she meant was if the community was willing to give huge tax breaks to a major corporation, maybe they could find it in their heart to to give tax breaks to a food bank, or low income housing, or a library or a school. in that sense the money is available because their finger was on the trigger for it already. i think it's similar to obama saying "you didn't build that". you guys laughed at him and said what an idiot. but the thing is he was right.
our entire economy is based on government funding, government tax breaks, government incentives. ask jerry jones who built his stadium. you did. ask michael dell who built his corporate complex. just like amtrak or usps, many corporations are propped up by the government. boeing and lockheed would file for bankruptcy tomorrow if we pulled our government contracts. as we've all said on this board for years government spending is a jobs bill. the rightwingers stand on their soapbox and shout about big government and lets's make it smaller, without realizing the ramifications of that. if amazon was so benevolent, and wanted their headquarters in nyc so bad then why did they opt out because of tax subsidies? they're on the tit just like every other corporation you bow down to and worship like they can do no wrong.