>Ridgewood has the ability to save money much like many other towns in this county. We just need to get rid of the excess numbers of town employees that we have, including those teachers that are not adding any value to the quality of education that our kids are getting.
We don’t need traffic wardens – the cops can that do that job when they are not crashing into unsuspecting motorists or when they are not doing their job as drivers speed through our streets and Joe Cop is talking on his cell phone and not doing anything about what’s going on around him.
Go to the train station any work day morning and you will find any number of town employees sitting inside the station drinking coffee and bullshitting with the coffee lady when they should be out doing their job. If they have time to do this at that hour of the morning, we don’t need – get rid of them.
In regards to the cops, we don’t need half the number of the force that we currently have because it’s not like we live in Dodge – it’s Ridgewood for God’s sake – read the Police Blotter in the local rags and what you will see is a listing of those three or four drivers that have been stopped for DWI. We don’t have serious crime – the cops should also do the school crossing guard job so they can look busy. We don’t need the elderly folks stepping out and helping children to cross our roads (some actually try to direct the traffic when they have helped the kids cross the street and that really pisses me off). Let the cops do it – maybe if motorists saw a cop car on the streets by our schools they would be forced to slow down – they currently don’t slow down for some old guy rushing groups of kids across the street.
Let’s start bringing revenue-making businesses back into town. We need to work towards enhancing consumer traffic into the down town area by bringing back some of the retail stores that this town could do with. We don’t need anymore banks, we need to start bringing brand-name stores back to town so that our money is not going to the big malls in Paramus. We can no longer have a day out in Ridgewood because two stores and Star Bucks and its time to go home – Let’s start catering to the residents of this town and not to the demands of its public officials, town employees and teachers – we need to get Ridgewood back on track and focused on the need to modernize itself and that includes a total revamp of the piss pot – otherwise known as Graydon Pool. We are loosing revenues there big time – stylish food courts, party rental space, etc., could all be major revenue earners for this town.
The overall message needs to be – stop complaining about the financial situation that we are in and that we are digging ourselves deeper into – bloody do something about and if our elected officials won’t listen to us, then their time in office will be a short lived experience – but not many people have the balls to switch party alliances in this town – that is why we are in the state we are – the saga continues…
