The State of New Jersey Planning Commission bureaucrats must be highly intelligent beings. They expect local elected officials to match their incredible intellects by formulating “economic development” plans that no society has ever successfully managed to devise. Cuba, Venezuela and some remaining Soviet bloc nations are still trying, but this high level economic planning as outlined in the statement taken directly from Raymond Lesniak’s bill (shown below), has not succeeded. Those darn humans just don’t behave the way the planners predict. Funny, lots of people have a different idea than the government planners for what they want to achieve, how they wish to prosper, what they will strive to give their children and how they want to live.

This passage from S1 criteria for your community’s “Master Plan” outlines the government planners’ scheme to design an “Economic Development Plan” for your community, based on the “characteristics” and “demographic” makeup of your community. Hmmm…I wonder what a demographic of perhaps heavily Italian or maybe mostly Irish or African American would lead these geniuses to determine is the best path to “sustained economic vitality”? Let’s not forget, these guys have reduced New Jersey from one of the most powerful state economies in America to the worst state for business, the highest taxes in the country and we have lost $70 BILLION in wealth over the last four years. These are the same people who now want to plan the future. Why not call the bill’s author, Senator Raymond Lesniak, and ask him what he has in store for your town?

(9) An economic plan element considering all aspects of economic development and sustained economic vitality, including (a) a comparison of the types of employment expected to be provided by the economic development to be promoted with the characteristics of the labor pool resident in the municipality
And nearby areas and (b) an analysis of the stability and diversity of the economic development to be promoted;