 | Dear Project To Restore America reader,
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 A Lesson from Park City
A friend from one of our Agora Inc. sister publishing organizations, The Oxford Club, recently invited me to tag along on a visit to Park City, Utah, where he was planning a conference.
For me the trip represented a great opportunity to research for an upcoming book I'm writing with another analyst here (which we hope to publish by next summer).
Park City was a silver mining town that has been through the full cycle of prosperity, destruction, and rebirth. Gold and silver were founded in the 1860s, and the first silver mines were built. By the 1890s, Park City's silver mines were world famous at a time when some of the world's old reserves were diminishing.
The town grew and became rich. But in 1898, a fire devastated the mining population. A few years later, an explosion killed 34 miners. By the 1950s the price of silver dropped, and Park City was a shell of what it had been.
But instead of falling off the map, the town reinvented itself as a posh skiing destination.
If you tour the Park City Museum, it is easy to see why the transition from silver mining to skiing was easy… The community already had the infrastructure in place to move people and ore all over these mountains. Transitioning from mining pulls to ski lifts was a no-brainer…
What is now Park City Mountain Resort opened in 1963 as Treasure Mountain. United Park City Mines, one of the last silver mining companies standing, opened the ski resort on mining land and the opening marked a new beginning. Treasure Mountain touted its superior technology including the longest gondola in the United States, a double chairlift, and the original "t-bars" found today in most ski resorts' "kiddy areas."
The resort combined this new technology with the existing mining technology. For instance, a miners' train carried skiers deep into the mountain and a mining elevator took them 1,750 feet up. Aerial trams became ski lifts…
Today, this town of 7,500 draws more than 3 million tourists a year. And many ski teams, businesses, outdoor travel companies, and the Sundance Film Festival all call Park City home.
This is an encouraging story we should all study… because it is time for the United States to emulate this on a larger scale … If we, the American citizens, can have the space to use our creativity, entrepreneurship, and the same innovative spirit we have always had, we just might surprise ourselves…
This Park City trip was just a weekend trip, but soon another analyst and I will be "on the road" for 10 days conducting research for our book.
We are going to California…
We are concentrating on California as a case study because it is a microcosm of the overall U.S. economy. We will focus on some key interrelated industries like farming and transportation. If you didn't see Wednesday's S&A Digest, Brian Hunt and Sean Goldsmith described the way the 'End of America' has struck California.
They said this… "As Michael Lewis writes in his latest article for Vanity Fair, the gravy train is crashing in California. Lewis, who in our opinion is the best financial journalist in the world, recently traveled to California to investigate the state's financial crisis." You can read the article here…
During the research-based trip, we will host a roundtable discussion in Fresno, California to learn how more regulations, government waste, and a growing government affects the farmers who supply the majority of our nation's food. The big farmers will be there, and I look forward to relaying to you their current challenges…
And I'll be sending regular dispatches from my trip. I hope you will travel with me throughout the month by reading the daily e-mail and Friday e-letters. And I hope you will continue to contribute and write in about your concerns…
Every day I am humbled by the responsibility to serve you. And I earnestly hope the Project can fulfill its goals… to pass three amendments, to inspire citizens, put pressure on legislators, and ultimately reduce the overall size of government so we can all get back to doing what we do best… innovating, inventing, transitioning, teaching…
And, hopefully soon, just as Park City went through "prosperity, destruction, and rebirth," America will transcend destruction and experience a magnanimous rebirth.
Regards,
Wendy Bidwell
Director, The Project to Restore America |
The Project to Restore America is a non-partisan call for a fiscally-responsible government, to bring true freedom to Americans as outlined in the Constitution.
Each day, we will be sending you the most timely and important news and information on the three "pillars" of The Project:
| ✔ | Balanced budgets for every level of government | | ✔ | Sound money backed by gold | | ✔ | The right for all Americans to keep 80% of his/her income |
This has nothing to do with Republicans, Democrats, or whatever political party you belong to. The system we have today has delivered ALL of us to the doorstep of national bankruptcy. Unless we reform the way we govern our country, by adopting the three Project "pillars" as amendments to the Constitution, we will lose the liberty that is our birthright as Americans.
That is the goal for The Project to Restore America. Ultimately, our community will be a powerful vehicle for change.
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