There is a little known hidden and tremendous potential in the connection between the drive and ingenuity of young adults and small town entrepreneurship.
The larger city local governments are now mostly overrun by officials elected on false pretenses and half truths. They are expert at justifying the ever increasing tax expenditures by affirming the need for an altruistic financial management that houses the homeless, feeds and provides healthcare to all who don’t earn around the median income. As they choke off retiring property owners and rural hospitals, they chase the major employers away and leave our youth with no choice but to head to the cities to find sufficient employment upon graduating from their local high school or from a distant college. This scenario is irrefutable and continues to worsen even in the face of a more stable and growing economy. The youth that remain have little hope for affording their own home or farm, or college tuition, retain a suppressed motivation to learn the higher level academic skills, and to spend enough time on difficult academic challenges. A disproportionate amount of time and energy is expended on sports and social media.
This youth subculture leaves a small town ripe for large developers to enter into contract with local government for the purpose of growing the subsidized housing sector and, by default, the socialist voting constituency. This is nothing but the human nature of the more powerful economic players preying on the weaker ones. It has become a serious and parasitic development across small town America. Eventually, the property taxes are raised beyond the reach of the family farm. Corporate agriculture, specifically in the form of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOS) are ready to buy out the family farm at the auction once it has been confiscated for tax lien. Factory farms such as those run by large corporations like Tyson Foods, take over the whole process of breeding the animals to packaging them as food with the help of contracted suppliers. Crops are grown for maximum yield on pesticides and genetic engineering. Its nutritional value is depleted for the sake of maximizing the volume of crop yield and therefore the return on investment. The regulatory costs from the Obama administration alone have driven small farms into prohibitive debt. Farmers are forced into reducing their operations to limit their crops to corn and soybeans, to be sold to CAFOS as animal feed. As small and medium size farms consolidate to large farms, small businesses in these rural towns eventually close, leaving the town with less tax revenue.
In the US, no entity can colonize on US soil with the intention of forcing anyone to adopt religious beliefs and behaviors. By the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, native Indians were given citizenship and have their reservations by direct treaty with the federal government and are outside of US jurisdiction within their reservations. Their religious beliefs do not obligate them to force their beliefs onto any other citizen. In direct contrast, the growing Muslim communities, such as EPIC CITY that was planned in Texas, and do not have any such arrangement and are obligated to force their religious beliefs and behaviors upon others, totally unconstitutional. Once brought to governor Abbott’s attention, House bill 4211, banning Sharia Law, was passed and signed by the governor. Those of the Muslim communities believe and behave as if their location is a self declared reservation where it is legal for them to force their beliefs on others, even in public, such as in parks and schools. They favor socialist economics, being supported and subsidized by globalist international funds. It is up to our young adults to expose the money laundering and fraud, challenging city councils and county boards with alternative ways and objectives for improving their districts for the purpose of growing private equity, whether in the form of true family farms, family ranches, or small businesses that support these rural landowners. Establishing strong local farm to table networks and a limitation on rezoning small farm land can be very effective at limiting the urban crawl that radical local officials promote.
Arab immigrants arrived between 1880 and 1924, with a peak of 4,200 in 1920, until the passage of the Reed-Johnson Act of 1924 which limited immigration to 2% from each nationality in the US as of the 1890 census and excluded Asia altogether, limiting the quota from Syria/Lebanon to about 100. This was done for the express stated purpose to preserve the homogeneity of the country. Previous to this, the immigration Act of 1917 excluded anyone born in the “Asiatic Barred Zone” except Japan and the Philippines. While most of the Arabs emigrating to the US in the 1900s were Christians, Muslims from southern Lebanon concentrated themselves in Dearborn, Michigan to work at the Ford River Rouge complex, built in 1917. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 allowed spouses, direct children, and parents to immigrate to the US as non-quota. It provided a quota of 20,000 for each country, prioritizing 75% to family re-unification, 20% to employment, and 5% to refugees. Then, in 1967, a new wave of Arab Muslim immigrants came to the Southend of Dearborn as war refugees fleeing the civil war in Yemen and as displaced Palestinians from the 1967 Israeli-Palestinian War. They filed a class-action suit against the city of Dearborn in 1973 to prevent Ford from expanding into their property, under the 14th amendment. The Lebanese civil war of 1975 provided a new wave of Lebanese Muslim immigrants to Dearborn. They joined the civil rights movement in the 70s and 80s under the leadership of a new generation of Arab nationalists and Muslim political activists and formed a variety of institutions that supported their entry into the political arena. They elected their first Arab American into the city council in 1990. With Iraqi refugees in the 1990s and Syrian refugees in the 2010s, eventually gaining even more political power, they elected their own representative to US Congress in 2018, Rashida Tlaib, a Detroit native born to Palestinian parents in 1976, and then, Abdullah Mahmoud, a Dearborn native Arab-American, as mayor in 2021. Mahmoud allowed thousands of illegal Muslim migrants to arrive to Dearborn via the open southern border. As Muslims, they favored the Democratic Party to gain political support, and government subsidies for their families. They always support maximizing government spending toward local infrastructure and for expanding government services. They became the majority in Dearborn in 2023 at 55%.
In contrast to all other ethnicities in the US, the Muslims seek to isolate themselves for the purpose of gaining political power and directing the country’s foreign policy to favor their home countries and organizations. This is because it is antithetical for them to subordinate their ties to their home countries under the US Constitution and the best geopolitical interests of the United States. They do not actually naturalize to the US as all other immigrant populations have done from the beginning. It is contradictory for a Muslim community to embrace and appreciate the US Constitutional economic and religious freedoms that all other Ellis Island immigrants were motivated by. Given that the US enter into a direct military conflict with any of their home countries such as with the Gaza Strip, they will side with our military adversaries, becoming a danger to our national security.
The other poison in the ointment is that because they favor expanding welfare programs in health care and food distribution. This inevitably leads to radical socialist city councils and county commissioners that break rules and conventions in order to favor the Muslims communities over other ethnicities. At this point it becomes too late for the African American sector to influence change, leaving no recourse except to leave the area. The Southend of Dearborn and much of Detroit has become intolerant of non-Muslim residents. There, the Quran and Shariah Law supersede the US Constitution. The current interpretation of Quran 9:5 is that anyone who disrespects and disobeys Allah should be killed. The older generation immigrants from before the 70s and 80s are more pacifist.
Quran 9:5: “And when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they should repent, establish prayer, and give zakah, let them [go] on their way. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.”
Who are the polytheists? Well, there are two camps. Some scholars say that they are Arabs who have entered into contract with believers under which they have 3 months to become believers, or be killed. Others believe that it applies to any non-believers. Al Qaeda, ISIS, Hezbollah, the Taliban, and believes that the polytheists are any non-believers of Allah.
With the help of globalist billionaires and their affiliate organizations, the activist globalists help elect local government leaders to allow Muslims to live as if Sharia law is superior to Constitutional law as in Dearborn, Michigan. Their motivation is to use the Muslim communities to deprioritize the Constitution itself, and to dilute and pollute the Judeo-Christian values of our society. They understand that this group would never be able to deprioritize Islam and Sharia law in favor of the US Constitution. The only legal and Constitutional way that a religious group could be granted a geographic location in which to congregate and live apart form the US Constitution would be by contract with the US government. No group has the right to congregate and set up their own political domain in which to deprioritize the US Constitution. The new problem we have here is that the global elites have supported elected officials that are dedicated to allowing the Muslim colonization of some of our smaller towns like Dearborn. Their objective is not only to deprioritize the US Constitution but to create government dependent communities that welcome socialism.
In contrast, Chinese American citizens and Iranian American citizens appreciate our Constitution after having full knowledge and the oppressive experience of communism and theocracy. They are here as defectors of those governments, not as pioneers of failed governance, and not with the intention of imposing their religious beliefs on other citizens around them. They have the same appreciation for our freedoms as the children of the earlier wave of non-Muslim immigrants that came through Ellis Island.
Let me pose a ‘what if?’. The ‘what if’ of our time as Americans is not if tariffs and private investment can grow the American economy. Contrary to popular opinion, it simply and logically cannot. Without a competitive entrepreneurial culture, and without a globally competitive workforce, our great country will grow economically stagnant at best. The proportion of HB1 visas in our technology industries tell the whole story. Not only are there too many taking the positions that should have employed our own youth, but they disproportionately displace our youth at the more advanced levels of basic science research. Too many of our youth are looking for a job, and not a career. Too many are seeking the yellow brick road and not the freedom to digress from it. Too many of the baby boomers are unknowingly enabling their decline!
Those of our more competitive youth have stronger learning identities and perceive themselves as able to learn whatever they need to contribute meaningfully in whatever setting they find themselves in, whether at work or in some special interest group. This is the most overlooked and underappreciated human resource that is being stolen from us right under our very noses by an indoctrination meant to degrade that personal drive and competitive spirit. It is systematically being done not just in public school, but through almost all venues that grab our young people’s passive attention.
It is widely understood that if you dismantle a long standing wood pile in a wooded surrounding on a hot summer day, you might expect to find at least one angry snake, most likely venomous. The same can be said for a city council and/or county board of commissioners who are challenged by sufficiently large petitions to reign in tax expenditures that bring no or little return on investment to the taxpayer. This almost never happens! But, what if, all of a sudden, there was a dedicated cohort of young adults who decided to take ownership and responsibility for the financial management of their town and brought sufficiently large petitions not only to their local governing body, but to the state legislature as well? What if they collaborated to start small businesses in their town that would successfully compete against those of the surrounding towns. What if they had such a smart business plan that would attract significant private investment? What if the town then prospered from the growth of the equity or the financial value of those businesses as opposed to property taxes? Could our young people pull it off?
Yes they can! But not without a brand new subculture, one that results from a new level of economic, social, and spiritual awareness. In my humble opinion, it is us baby boomers who allowed their educational and social environment to go to crap that owe them a launching pad. So, what kind of a launching pad? How do we create it? Well, the success of any plant is in the quality of the seed and the ecosystem in which it is planted. The most perfect planter is the God who created the perfect seed and the perfect ecosystem.
The most coveted business asset is not the most recent profit, nor the present value of the building or the website. It is the number of repeat or returning customers. A sharp reduction in the price of the product can cause this but only for a short period of time. Only those with a greater understanding of human nature will succeed in creating a sustaining repeat customer base. For our young people to succeed they will need the older people to mentor them accordingly.
Factually, and historically, there is only one mentor that has been able to turn thugs into big brothers, gang leaders into community leaders, wife beaters into compassionate husbands, and addicts into counselors. Jesus Christ is the only primary resource for this kind of a mission. A truly motivated intern will seek out the most knowledgeable and accomplished person in their field of interest. Yet he will settle for the next best if the latter has a genuine heart for mentoring. Jesus and only Jesus will be the mentor that motivates our young adults to take the real challenges of their future. He will point to the character of humility, integrity, compassion, and service. He will point to responsible financial stewardship, domestic and business. Specifically, he will point to a burning love for their family, for their community, and for their country. How will this happen? With our help, they will be awakened to the reality of the dark spiritual forces that are out to fill their lives with hate, anger, and frustration, with depression and addiction, to enslavement and impoverishment.
Just as investors decipher the near future demand in any industry, every small town has a near future demand for a service or a product. Only a knowledge of the people and their subculture, of their economic behavior, and of their values could investors wisely predict the economic demands of that town. This will largely determine what types of businesses may thrive in that town. How do you find the young entrepreneur to start that business? I might argue that he or she has already been designated, by their passion and performance in that field and their connection to the town. There are many young people performing well out of passion for their field in the bigger cities that given a chance would jump at starting their own enterprise in the small town they identify with, either through family or through friends they already know and visit with there.
Contrary to popular understanding, successful entrepreneurs are not only driven by the profit motive, but by a love for the people they serve with their enterprise. Those that do almost always extend that same love to their employees. Out of an appreciation to have the opportunity to grow a business in that town comes the unmistakable love for the people of that town.
Word of mouth does not come from word of mouth. It comes from the entire customer experience. It comes from customers who have been edified in their conversation, humbly respected in their demands and criticisms, informed out of professional knowledge and experience, and the consistent proven quality of the service or product, publicly giving all praise and glory to God. It is human nature that the customer’s expectation has to be not just met but exceeded. Our young people can do this, but only if they are mentored into this subculture and not their own. They must develop a passion not for just growing a business, but for growing a better business than what they have already seen. In many of our smaller towns, the longest standing businesses are the ones where those who serve know all their customers on a first name basis. They also know their cohorts in the other similar venues in that town. The business owners are known around the town and know one another as well.
How would such a town impact the surrounding towns? Only one word could describe this impact. Competition. Out of the motive to compete comes innovation, challenging learning curves, and hard work. God willing, this is precisely what the American economy will grow from while it prospers our young people for generations to come.
Yet none of this will work without the most important ingredient. Not prayer, but fervent and frequent prayer. It starts with the administrator of this mission, Jesus Christ, and continues with as many participants as are genuinely willing to follow Him in their daily lives. The founders of our Constitution all knew what it was like to be forced to accept religious beliefs according to the King of England as nominal head of the church of England. Their motivation was to legally guarantee the religious freedom to believe in Jesus Christ or not, and not be persecuted for believing or not believing. This, by pure logic, excludes any organization, secular or religious, from encroaching upon that freedom. It means that a Catholic cannot force or obligate a non-Catholic from abstaining from consuming meat on Good Friday. It also means that any religion whose tenet is to force religious behavior onto anyone exists outside of the bounds of our Constitution. Anyone who claims that religion and that tenet cannot become a US citizen. This is, logically, how our founders intended to prevent our country from becoming a theocracy, or any portion of it from being colonized by such a religious group or organization.
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