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Here Are Ways for a Town or Area to Create Prosperity by Protecting Its Money, Jobs, Small Businesses and Opportunities
- Appoint your new sheriff, an attorney, as your "town attorney general", to defend the rights and revenues of your town and its residents - see http://election-issues-us.com/townattorneygeneral_2.php
- Create an area-wide tuition-free equivalency college - see http://election-issues-us.com/equivalency.php
- Create an area-wide payroll administrator to enable small businesses to hire and fire at least cost of money and regulatory paperwork - see http://election-issues-us.com/localbusiness.php
- Create a Task Marketplace for local residents and small businesses to enable them to market their tasks, other services and goods to the 25-mile surrounding area and rest of the U.S. and world - see http://election-issues-us.com/myclads_2.php
- Create a local bank, savings and loan or credit union to enable loans and credit card transactions to take place at non-usurious rates of interest (i.e., 16% or less under New York law)
- Create a local stock market for area-wide small businesses and self employed persons to enable them to raise money from local investors to pay off usurious loans, become profitable and hire their first or additional employees - see http://www.inc.com/magazine/20061201/handson-finance.html
- Create local manufacturing of renewable energy (using food, biomass, geothermal heat, sunlight, wind, rain, tides as appropriate for the area)
- Create other manufacturing - http://www.pvlocalfirst.org/blogs/economic-life-grace-innovating-360.html
- Create farming, paying particular attention to the high transportation costs of importing food from distant states or countries - see http://www.mercola.com/article/agriculture.aspx
- Create incubators for small businesses - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_incubator and http://www.nbia.org/
- Encourage local services to reduce the cost of living and doing business in the area, examples of this include regular visits to the elderly, day care, volunteer services at local hospital, governmental agencies and non-profits
- Create opportunity for local residents to have mini-farms for growing of own vegetables - see http://www.forumforthefuture.org/greenfutures/articles/The_hanging_garde... and http://thegardenersrake.com/how-to-grow-a-recession-garden - also called "recession gardens", "community gardens", "vegetable gardens" and reminiscent of WWII "Victory Gardens" and French "country gardens" or "portager gardens"
- Create area-wide delivery services to help local businesses distribute their goods more quickly and conveniently, and at lower cost
- Create an information system to enable prospective customers to find what they need in the area
- Create booklets of discount coupons offered by local businesses to stimulate sales for them - see http://www.longislandcoupon.com/
- Create apprenticeships to enable local residents to obtain valuable on-the-job training in small businesses
- Create local currency (not in violation of federal law) for use in purchasing local goods and services - see http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2009-04-05-scrip_N.htm
