Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state's population - but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and 19 percent of the state's revenues.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Boston is the engine of the state's economy.
For every $5 that Boston's economy sends up to Beacon Hill, the state gives only $1 back to us.
Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams.
Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I'm one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar.
In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community.
Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.
The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created.
New York is about success. Boston is about resentment.
There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?