that s 25,000 jobs. unheard of. i talked yesterday to a business analyst. he said throughout the city everyone was raising their benefits and their salaries to match amazon. in other words, they were afraid of losing their personnel to them. your self description is a progressive, but pragmatic. are you sensing what happened here is a reflection of progressive ideology, but lack of pragmatism? maybe a breakdown of communication. there were many benefits. everything that we asked of amazon, they were willing to talk to you about it. they said they wanted the $3 billion to go to school. they were building the school in long island city and provide high tech education in 30 other schools throughout the whole