Jason Goray raises interesting points. No, there's no law of economics that says corporate and neighborhood interests have to conflict. It is the WAY business is managed (profit being the trump value) that causes the conflict. I'm sure you can find corporations that realize stepping on people is not a good way to preserve goodwill. Those companies tend to prosper in a more reliable way than the villainish ones. The latter are really mostly interested in pleasing financial analysts so they will rate their stock a "buy". Socially-responsible analysts look past revenues and profits to style of management. The corporations they pick are likely to work for common interests with neighborhoods and not try to pull the wool over their eyes. ---------------------------------------------- Revitalization: Bob Velez, you probably missed my earlier message where I pointed out the large amount of neighborhood development we've had in Longfellow IRRESPECTIVE of highway projects. It was hardly the bridge over lake that caused the YWCA to be built. I think its a sham to claim that somehow this highway project is for that reason. As I've said, they've wanted to build a bigger pipe for at least ten years. They are using Lake Street redevelopment as a Trojan Horse to sell the project that has been beaten down before. WizardMarks may not admit it, but those of us with less invested can certainly do so. ------------------------------------------ Doug: The essence of reading is not sounding words, it is INTERPRETING SYMBOLS. If a symbol on a page does not stimulate a meaning in the brain, you do not have reading. --------------------------------------------- Jason: Hear hear. I'm for repealing every law they don't enforce. I hate looking at bulging law books, full of laws there is neither will nor resources to enforce. The result of these laws is that most of society is made up of lawbreakers. Yet, the jails are full of people who only break laws we CARE about. So, we are in the process of differentiating between offenders. And what that teaches crooks is to be clever enough to be an offender who never pays a price. Many of them fail, but that's the inevitable lack of judgment that bedevils human beings. We are CREATING crime with this approach to law.
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