What Happened To Guymon After Economic Development Deals With Seaboard Farms and WalMart?

After Julianne has told Michael and Jenni about how the grift of economic development works, Michael tells Jenni and Julia about what happened to the town he grew up in - Guymon, Oklahoma - after the town created economic development deals with WalMart and Seaboard Farms. Small towns can't remain small towns when multinational corporations come in. Multinational corporations care about their bottom line - not about the health of the community. How would any town be bettered by shutting mom and pop enterprises out of competition with a multinational corporations? Town kids could grow up and work at businesses run by members of the community. Town money then stays in the town, promoting the town's values and not a large employer's.

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The Grift Of Economic Development Explained - Julianne Romanello; ROPE Report SHORT

In this short video - edited from our full live video found here on our YouTube channel under 'live videos', or on our Rumble channel - Julianne talks with Michael Grande and Jenni White about how the grift of Economic Development actually works. 

In order to make a small town more worldly and willing to buy into the globalist ideals, an idea will be pitched that will be something that can change the ideas and mindset of town residents. For example; a town - like Chickasha, Oklahoma - which had a yearly Christmas display of lights that attracted people from many areas, the focus will change to a 'leg lamp' which is brought in to attract more people. 

The 'leg lamp' is the lamp from A Christmas Story. It's a many feet tall replica of the plastic, fish-net stocking covered leg with a lampshade that looks like a skirt. So, instead of having a Christ-centered display of lights acknowledging Christmas, the focus shifts to a lamp that makes people think of a racy woman like a prostitute or a call girl. 

Once the focus of values is changed and the town starts trying to meet the needs of outsiders, the focus of the businesses in the town start changing toward whatever is going to bring in visitors - like adopting 'green' standards to make sure 'big city' people will want to come. 

Once the town changes to a more green-centered, or outward-facing model, the entire mode of the town shifts to something else entirely - not focusing on residents and their needs anymore.

The Grift Of Economic Development; Making small towns corporate towns - Julianne Romanello

In this clip from our podcast of 8/14/24, Julianne talks about the real 'end game' for the grift of economic development. Does it really help create jobs? Yes, while it's simultaneously degenerating everything about the small town it claimed it would 'help'. 

As so many of us have learned subsequent to the plandemic, to everything there is a scheme. In the case of economic development, it's for the people at the top to get a pay check while plugging the 'have nots' into WalMart greeter type jobs as the mom and pop stores go away. In the end, the small town will falter only to be taken under the wings of the larger, greener, plugged in, tyrannical big city so that all can be funneled into the one world government model.

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Insurance Isn't For Maintenance - Kayla Blount; ROPE Report Short

In case you missed it live, you can find the full podcast here on Rumble and on YouTube.

Probably one of the best conversations we had about this topic didn’t actually make it into the podcast! After we had finished, Kayla and I started talking more about the rising rates and how people could help themselves lower their home owners insurance costs. She said something I thought was SO IMPORTANT, I asked her to have the conversation again so I could record it.

Listen to what Kayla is saying in this clip – it truly is important…

Sadly, I think people today have gotten out of the habit of saving for emergencies. I think they’ve even gotten out of the habit of thinking they should bear the responsibility of paying anything out of pocket that they have insured.

I’m old enough to remember car insurance in the late 70’s and early 80’s. Back then, my car insurance only paid for some really major repair – basically, to own a car, you had to put some ‘skin in the game’ – you had to be able to pay for some repairs in cash, not through insurance. That was for a major wreck, not a fenderbender.

In fact, I think that the philosophy of, “I pay for insurance, I don’t need to pay for anything else” is super bad and here’s why. The more you expect a company of some kind to protect your investment, the more power you turn over to that company to regulate what you insure. Think on that and the insurance policies you pay for. Your insurance policies can be upwards of 20 pages; here’s what we’ll pay for and here’s what we won’t and if you want this coverage you have to do this…

Now, what happens when you have a water leak and you don’t want to pay the 3500 dollars it’s going to take to completely remediate the damage, so you file a claim on your insurance. Your insurance carrier will come along the next year and charge you more on your policy and increase your deductible because they had to shell out money to fix a relatively minor issue.

The MORE we use insurance, the MORE we’ll pay for insurance. It just is the way it works.

People have got to get to the point where we’re willing to have responsibility for the things we have and expect insurance to pay for CATASTROPHIC damages, not ‘fenderbenders’ because we are either too lazy or too unwilling to save for a ‘rainy day’.

Yes, the economy is HORRID. Yes inflation is UNBELIEVABLE. Still and all, we can’t give up our responsibility for the things we own to only insurance. We need to get back into the habit of building up an EMERGENCY FUND – even if its only 10 bucks a month. That is really the best way to save money on insuring the things we own.