Yes For America's Future Committee, otherwise known as the Democratic National Committee, made us all feel so secure, warm and fuzzy with their promise of “change,” we were assured that by stimulation ($800 trillion) unemployment would not rise over 8 percent; that small businesses would engage more employees to meet the demand for more goods and services for an energized consumer market; that the corrupt, incompetent and insolvent financial institutions and automobile makers would be culled from the market and replaced by the prudent, provident and responsible ones of a “lesser god”; that there would come upon our land a universal health care benefit for all, with lower taxes, broader coverage, tort reform and preservation of existing programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security intact; that there would be less of a tax burden on the middle-class, the true engine of the economy; and that the U.S. dollar would remain strong, preserve values and maintain stable prices.

Well, it didn't happen! We only received disingenuous and manufactured promises — no more and a lot less.

Yes, For Eagle's Future Committee, otherwise known as “Proponents of Eagle River Station,” now endeavors to promise further security, warmth and fuzziness, but for the denizens of the Eagle area in particular. This committee paints a future Eagle with the capability of meeting its debts (past, present and future) with the windfall sales' revenues that would be fomented by ERS.

With better traffic control amongst the children playing and riding their skateboards and bikes in our newly minted cobbled streets, with no unemployment as a result of the utilization of the services of local contractors and the ensuing “high-paying” retail jobs that would be propagated from the profitable and happy tenants of ERS under a 100 percent occupancy rate; with newfound friends found at Target, the Dusty Boot and other places where happy consumers congregate.

All the while, Eagle maintains its same, old, small, country charm pursuant to the provisions and mandates of the Eagle Area Community Plan. All of the aforesaid and sylvan visions are promises too — hopefully more, and no less!

Empty promises made by politicians to acquire or remain in high public office are little different than the promises of salvation espoused by foreign developers seeking public gratuities to generate their profits. Are developers less subject to the proclivities of greed, ambition and subterfuge than our elected representatives?

On Jan. 5, Eagle will have the opportunity to elect a developer based upon its promises for a better, brighter and more prosperous town. Will naivete have its day, or will history and experience have skin in the game?

Fredric Butler