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Mayor's Vision For Waterview Lacks Civil Mindedness.

  Civicminded Businessmen and Bankers. Is the word "civic" completely gone or forgotten from modern, day politics? The whole concept of "political" itself has erased it. Today it is private, vested interest of corporations; which appeal to profit motives for their constituents, which may or may not involve civic mindedness  in some degree of truth or deceit. Tax relief, for example coming in the form of destruction to a landscape or neighborhood for the sake of Tax cuts has caused the need for more tax revenue.
 Any civil society or Nation State must tax its citizens for return in civil order and betterment of life within its society. Today we have those who can give more because they simply have more because they have benefited under an alleged free system of enterprise, that do not pay their fair share and wish to keep it that way. The "robbing more" system of corporate greed; has set this Nation upside down in its principals of democracy and morality. The common man cries "Tax Relief", without really knowing what he is saying. 
  Those Giants of an earlier time not that long ago; civicminded businessmen and bankers who contributed their time energy and finances to the betterment of their home and community has passed. This being true shows us this United States has fallen into decay. 
  When a developer like RDR and our Planning Plan Board spins tales of 'tax relief" and "job opportunities" in the name of progress, we should all realize we are only fooling ourselves. Who is RDR really? why would they want to continue to threaten this community, after they have been shown overwhelming disfavor in their plans at Waterview? Please go away, be civil to us the people of Parsipanny. We have had enough corporate sprawl, up and down our Highways. Destroying Doremus Ridge and the neighborhood that is harbored there is wrong. Siding with RDR in a vision for Parsipanny is not civic. If the IBEW is not being influenced by RDR's money why are they crying, dam the land, dam the community, jobs for us? It is the corporate sleaze, like RDR that needs to be purged from our political system so that civicmindness can return to America. The we will have work in good measure and for good purpose.; not another retail shopping mall that makes no sense, other than RDR wants it. Market Value is the same value of market that once sold human beings into slavery as property. This land would better serve us as open space as a nature area or park. Water, air, earth, American Landscape, not made in China, Pakistan, retail.           

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