[joshmaker]

> rapacious unions

Worth noting that Paris has famously powerful unions and yet still manages to build transit projects for much less than New York City.

[Rexxar]

> Paris has famously powerful unions

It's more an image than a reality. And in the case of construction workers, it's completely false.

[earthboundkid]

The nice thing about a large dataset is it can disprove (or prove) everyone’s pet theory for why the US is so broken.

[labster]

At least we all agree the US is broken.