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Originally Posted by mickey100
Thanks. To be precise, though, even some of the things that were mentioned that the poster assumed were "charitable" by the developer, some were not so, they were required by law. For example, when a development such as The Villages affects the road system, (adding 10,000/year to the driving population on the roads qualifies), a permit is required by the State or County, depending on which roads are affected, to mitigate such effects. Any improvements made to Route 301 would fall into that category.
I realize that there are a certain number of posters who have their heads in the sand and foolishly think the Developer is some sort of benign king with our best interests at heart. "Don't worry, be happy, just turn off your brain" is their mantra. Some of us tend to be a little more cautious. Had the Developer been so altruistic, we never would have needed a class action lawsuit. The folks back then would have pointed out (and actually they did request but were denied) what was needed, that the funds hadn't been set aside for maintenance, and the Developer would have kicked in with a mea culpa, and everything would have been wonderful. But that didn't happen. He he didn't voluntarily put up the funds that were allegedly misappropriated, he had to be prodded into it with a lawsuit.
Anyways, I am grateful for the POA and all they have done and continue to do for the residents.
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It it were NOT for the Morses and their climb to huge financial success and achieving all of the things that folks on the other side of the aisle seem to hate; big business, tax breaks for big business etc. etc. etc.
All of us who live here wouldn't be living here in this very unusual situation, the first of this kind on earth..ever.
Maybe he is a smelly old goat who farts in public and scratches his fanny and doubles his negatives and kicks the dog. Maybe he doesn't go to church, imagine that, and fails to edge his lawn and does other nasty things beside contributing to the other political party.
YOU don't know and I don't know and any information about the law suit is MUZZLED other than what we can read in the Orlando paper that I link time and time again. WHAT IF HE IS A NICE PERSON and the only thing that really makes you mad is his yacht and his airplanes and his huge financial success? What if he raised his kids to work hard and his grandkids to work hard and they also became financial successes. What if they are working now, just as he is except to sit down together on a Monday night and watch the granddaughter in her role on television and are proud that she too is earning a living. It really does not seem too different than our family.
My husband is still working at the age of 73, be it on the internet and the phone and trips on the airplane. Our granddaughter is employed in her dream job after interning on the Today show. We have worked hard, our kids are working hard and our grandkids worked all though high school and college even though they got scholarships and we could afford to fund them. I see the work ethic in this family. There is more to life than money. They appear to be achieving their dream of creating a place unlike any other on this earth in human history.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT?????? What is right with that? I see a lot of good in them.
If I so hated the philosophy of someone who was this powerful in the community I lived in, I would move.