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IBEW Have Become Beggars at Waterview

Waterview shows how corporations are not citizens in a wholesome sense of the word.
Let it be known RDR will walk away from Impacts caused by their environmental disaster and ignoring of the Land Use Law. They have chosen the wrong landscape; besides their development is not needed. NJDEP cannot force them to implement all rules and voluntarily necessities. The truth is  NJDEP should of stopped them already, Ah, but corporations are people, and don't people have a right to break laws?
 The people of Parsipanny and the State of NJ will wind up paying later.
 Wall Street robbed everyone and their lobbies in Washington will not allow government job created employment; short of road work and some infrastructure which has been neglected.  Now we should throw away environmental regulations that are too weak to begin with, for the sake of some petty work that will not bring advances, but only at best make ends meet for awhile to advance some wall street crooks. 
  Unions are supposed to represent social advances in society because of the exploitation that workers experienced being used for their labor to advance society. When their labor is no longer needed to advance corporate profits the workers are simply forgotten or left idle. That society continues to exploit them but now Unions have become allies of these forces of exploitation , allying themselves with the exploiters of Wall Street. Unions like IBEW have become beggars and part of the problem, no longer viable sources of advancement for the society. Advocating for work that will unnecessarily destroy more of the American Landscape, degrade others homes and communities and ignore and undermine advances made in environmental protections for future generations. As a former Union Stewart and advocate for the APWU/Metro Maintenance , I find this siding by IBEW with a corporation of dubious character and morals disappointing in the least. Who is RDR exactly and how did they come into their money? Most of all why don't they care about facts, good reasons and the future impacts they will surely pass on to us? It is not about jobs.  

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