The Solutions Revolution

The Solutions Revolution
155 Fresh Ideas for Allegan County’s Future
Chris Wicker
REPUBLICAN FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER
Bold Solutions to confront our County’s Challenges in the 21st century. The list is always evolving and,
with your input and support, it can constitute a revolution to solve the problems others ignore.
August 3, 2010
Table of Contents
Dear Friend, ........................................................................................................... 3
Challenge 1: Beating a Horrible Business Climate .................................................. 5
Solutions 1 ................................................................................................................................................. 7
Challenge 2: Building Over Falling Home Prices ................................................... 10

Solutions 2: .............................................................................................................................................. 11
Challenge 3: Fixing Our Government and Making It Serve Us Better ................... 13

Solutions 3: .............................................................................................................................................. 14
Rethink: ............................................................................................................................................... 15
Reinvent: ............................................................................................................................................. 18
Challenge 4: Coming Together in a Fragmenting Culture ..................................... 19

Solutions 4 ............................................................................................................................................... 20
Challenge 5: Growing with Agriculture in the 21st Century .................................. 22

Crop Challenges .................................................................................................................................. 22
Livestock/Animal Products Challenges ............................................................................................... 23
Emergency Management Challenges ................................................................................................. 24
Security Challenges ............................................................................................................................. 24
Solutions 5 ............................................................................................................................................... 25
Challenge 6: Overcoming Our Spread-out Population.......................................... 27

Solutions 6 ............................................................................................................................................... 28
Challenge 7: Advancing Past Technological Challenges – ..................................... 29

Solutions 7 ............................................................................................................................................... 31
 ACATS:......................................................................................................................................... 33
Appendices: ......................................................................................................... 35
Appendix A: How a Pothole Forms .......................................................................................................... 35
Appendix B: ‘Campaigning Requires Christian Conviction’ ..................................................................... 35
Appendix C: Off-farm Work and Operation Expansion Potential With New Ag Tech ............................. 37
Appendix D: In-Depth Explanation of the Wave ..................................................................................... 37
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Dear Friend,
Thank you for being interested in the future of your community. When I decided to run
for County Commission, my main goal was to get you engaged and talking about the future of
our community. I believe that a system which determines realities for all should be inevitably
decided by all. We cannot possibly have such a system without your input and individual genius.
I hoped to communicate this with a simple title, ‘The Solutions Revolution:’ an explosion of
ideas from everyone to solve the problems confronting all of us. Simply, I want you to be
engaged and I want you to be active. It’s with those goals I’ve written and organized this
document.
Please, don’t assume that I am declaring the things listed here to be the right solutions
for Allegan County. I am one man of 112,000: I cannot possibly know all you know and I am not
right all the time. I need your input. While I certainly believe these proposals to be correct, I can
easily be wrong. I urge you to prove me wrong so we can correct our approach and, as an
elected public servant, I can deliver the best solutions possible. You can contact me via email at
CMWicker@gmail.com or by phone at (616)218-3842. However, before you read the contents,
please understand the following assumptions and approaches:
 I am a Theist. I have a Christian world view and approach decisions and people with a
moral vision for the future. I try to incorporate Jesus’ teachings into my life, yet struggle
as any person does. I try to bring Christian values into the work I do and will reintroduce 1
it to the government (over the ACLU’s objections if necessary).
 I am a Conservative. I believe in a limited, transparent government directly accountable
to the People. Ronald Reagan is my hero. He, Locke, Hobbes, Smith, Madison, Jefferson,
Lincoln, Hayek, Coolidge, Friedman and Gingrich are my teachers.
 Government is force. Government has the authority to legitimately apply force. Every
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action must, at some level, use force. If the county paves a road, it forces payment from
those people who do not benefit from the paving. Force, here, is used in the collection
of taxes.
 A county commissioner’s job is 10% official, 90% unofficial. Community leaders have a
responsibility to do things beyond politics. My approach to the county commissioner
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position involves being active in the community, not just ruling over it. Many of the
solutions that I propose and will take an active role in do not directly involve the official
powers of a commissioner.
 There are two worlds: a world that works and a world that fails. Political approaches
lead to one or the other: they work or they fail. Given the high, widespread 4
unemployment and the civil unrest in this country: we are currently living in a world that
fails.
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 We are in a discontinuity between two realities. The ‘discontinuity’ is the center

‘BLAM’ in the diagram on the below. There was an old, industrial reality (the triangle)
which was destroyed by the advent of the Internet and greater connections and mobility
(the Action arrow). In this discontinuity, we are seeing elements of the new era form. It
could be a circle or a square or a number of small industrial realities: no one can know 5
until after we have reached it. Dwelling on the unknown deeply scares us, but we should
have optimism for the future and not be afraid in our faith.
The Wave.
BLAM
Action
 Politicians are either oriented forward or backward. Politicians will either choose to
use governmental force to hold the triangle together (usually at the wish of the
‘winners’ in the old reality). They are Reactionaries. Revolutionary politicians seek to 6
have free people become innovative and determine the new reality. I believe in people,
not government: I am, thus, a genuine revolutionary.
 Private businesses in free markets move forward, government backward.
Governments and politicians are constantly trying to fix the present and are, thus,
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moving backwards in a changing reality. Businesses, on the other hand, are always
looking to the horizon: to the next summer, next year’s yield, the next quarterly report.
 To be successful, we must accept and adapt this new Information Age. Not doing so 8
risks Allegan County transitioning to represent Detroit.
It’s with these assumptions that I have sought to understand the Challenges to Allegan
County’s future and apply Solutions to confront them. Keep these assumptions in mind
while you're reading over the content of the packet.
Finally, I must ‘be the politician’ and humbly ask for your vote on August 3rd!
Thanks again and good luck!
Chris Wicker
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Challenge 1: Beating a Horrible Business Climate

High taxes, oppressive regulations, poor schools, and politician-dominated central planning
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have driven businesses away and poisoned the wells of entrepreneurship that once made our
state prosperous. Much of the government toxicity originated in none other than Gov.
Jennifer Granholm’s and Spkr. Andy Dillon’s offices. Cleaning up the infectious cesspool that
is the state bureaucracy is far beyond the capabilities of a county commissioner; however,
with nearly 1 of every 5 of our neighbors looking for work, we can and must identify and fix 10
the areas crippling our local economy.
Throughout much of the Western world (outside of Texas), there seems to be a

universal assumption that you should not be able to do what you want with your property 11
unless you convince the politicians that there is a really good reason that you should. From that
we’ve got a reality where people force others out of work and onto welfare rolls over
superficial things. These personal preferences when combined with political power produce
township and city ordinances against obviously good things like wind energy1 and Heath
Township’s Zoning Ordinance Section 6.06k(5) that says, “There shall be no expansion of the
business without approval of the Planning Commission.”2 Heath Township almost took Trestle
Stop owner Jeff Lampen to court over a freezer and such a looming threat is not an incentive to 12
keep doing business in the township. It is best put in a quote from a great video about
Cleveland: “Strict zoning laws are the weapons of choice for the powers that be.” On top of the
zoning hassle, there are a number of factors in which we lag behind Ottawa and Kent that
involve bringing business here. Chief among these is basic infrastructure maintenance.
Have you driven on I-196? I won’t anymore: it’s too hard on my car. It’s difficult to imagine the
cost of our bad roads for a business with 50+ vehicle fleets. The preemption of such a high cost
discourages a lot of shipping and, in turn, expansion to/opening of factories and large
farms/distribution points. I don’t have any evidence, but I’d expect that it diverts traffic over
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onto M-40, Blue Star and other roads we have to use every day. The increased volume, in turn,
damages the roads more and forces the county alone to pay for them without federal
contributions. Beyond simply repairing roads, we haven’t been preparing infrastructure for
specific businesses interested in building in the Midwest (kind of an oxymoron).
Chattanooga, Tennessee decided 25 years ago that they wanted an auto manufacturing plant in
their city. So they took proactive action: they bought a lot, leveled it off, put in
lighting/water/sewer, access to the interstate, built roads, and, by the time they were done,
there was a perfectly prepared site. In 2008, Volkswagen looked at 251 American cities in which
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Monteray Township: http://allegannews.com/articles/2010/03/11/local_news/4.txt
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http://heathtownship.net/pdf/ordinances/Ch_6-R-1.pdf
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to build a factory. It eventually came between Huntsville, Alabama and Chattanooga. The
Chattanoogans were, because of preparation and forward thinking, able to present the location
and be chosen. The results are staggering: VW invested $1billion initially, will employ 2,000
people directly, and will bring 9,500 supplier jobs plus $12billion in revenue to the area. The
first car will be produced in 2011.3 This is an astounding feat of forward thinking and active
investment attraction that we need to emulate. The only thing keeping Allegan from Detroit-
like chaotic status is Perrigo: we need to diversify. There’s no good reason we should be in dire 12
straits: Allegan County is in between two major ports and two major universities all with an
international port (Chicago) right around the corner. Obviously, we don’t have the necessary
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number of start-up businesses right now to do that, so we have to attract some.
Perhaps the major non-substantive obstacle to corporate importation is our regional ‘meth’
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perception. In 2005, our county was one of four in the area that made up 4.9% of the state’s
population, but 49% of meth arrests. Even though we have a stellar meth program with a great
success rate, this program isn’t fixing enough of the addicted and the disregard is still there. We
have a major challenge for the next 10 years in overcoming the untrue belief that we’re an
unsophisticated, backwards, drug-addicted place. We also have to understand that a bad 15
business environment begets meth addiction and meth addiction begets a worse business
environment.
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The VW wall-raising ceremony can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnnyWW_O-5w
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Solutions 1:
We’ve gone beyond a ‘point of difficult return’ on the meth issue, but we have to continue to
use our assets to remedy our liabilities. We can have faith in Adam Smith’s invisible hand
and, I promise you, it will work out. There is no evidence but that of human insecurity to tell
us the opposite. Every one of us deserves the opportunity to take part in the West Michigan
Renaissance: we shouldn’t let our leaders cause us to be left behind. You can see below for
some of the specific ways I’d remedy our state’s unfriendliness to business.
 Carefully Head Back to Private Property Rights: As commissioner, I will work with the 15
townships and municipalities to gradually re-center the zoning debate on the
assumption that you should be able to do what you want with your property unless
there’s a really good reason you shouldn’t. This is representative of two very important
aspects of Christian living: the Golden Rule, ‘do unto others as you would have them do
unto you’4 and ‘as we do unto others, God will do unto us.’ Aspects of the moral and
spiritual are, of course, apparent in the economic: fewer rules telling individuals,
businesses, and churches what they can and can’t do lowers construction cost for
everybody. I’ll advocate when talking to the township and city boards that we move
towards a simple land use regulation system that reasserts an unchallengeable rule of 16
law and takes it out of the arbitrarily applied rule of politicians.
 FIX THE ROADS: We cannot do good business with bad roads. Michigan politicians seem
to not understand this. We have to reopen, rethink, and reinvent our approach to
paving, plowing, and other maintenance. We have to fix our sections of I-196, US-131
and the Michigan highway trunklines. Many counties have, in the face of state funding
cuts, taken this option to buoy their local economies. It also gives the county
commissioners a little more control over the fiscal procedures of the Road Commissions, 17
and use that to privatize and improve the RC’s services. Check the Road Networking and
Road Technology sections on pages 14 and 15.
 Prepare the Infrastructure: Chattanooga is in a business-friendly state and it may be 18

some time before we can assess and assume a position where it would be beneficial. If
the next governor is a Republican, the outlook for this as an option improves
dramatically. A number of other national and global changes will signal the validity of
preparing for industrial increase. If there is a decrease in the value of the dollar relative
to the Euro, Yen, and Yuan, industries in Europe, Japan, and China will begin to move
over here. Federal government ownership of certain assets within the auto industry is
also a factor, as is the creation of a federal energy policy (beyond and hopefully better
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Matthew 7: 12
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than ‘NO DRILLING’) that will spur technological development in those sectors. All in all,
we will have to wait and see, but the dialog for prepared infrastructure has to kept open
constantly given the benefits it offers all sectors of the economy.
 Open Contracting: The ‘good ole boys’ system we have in place now puts the rule of
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politicians and bureaucrats above the rule of law. We need to change this at a basic
level to recruit bids on projects. We must disallow the barring of certain individuals from
bidding on any project they choose. It is fundamentally Un-American and certainly Un-
Christian to judge the person before the work and the bid before it is submitted.
 Expand the Meth Diversion Program and Other Anti-Drug Initiatives: The fate of our
successful diversion program remains in the hands of the Lakeshore Coordinating
Council (LCC). It is dangerous and plain bad policy to place our well being and safety in
the hands of people who do not have to experience the consequences of their actions. If
the LCC decides to cut the program off and the commissioners spend 12 years
deliberating over whether or not to fund it (as they did with the jail), the meth problem
will return in full force, our lives will be dramatically altered by widespread crime, and
the perception of a drug-addicted Allegan will begin growing again. Therefore, I propose
that the County supplement the program and, in that, expand it. At the same time, that 20
gives us a stake in seeking to privatize some of its functions, make it more efficient,
expand its abilities, and continually modernize it. We have to do this very publicly so
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that businesses in Grand Rapids, Holland and elsewhere know that we are taking action
and that we are succeeding so they will not be afraid to employ our citizens.
 Network Schools with Businesses: Schools are government institutions and are,
therefore, stuck in a dialog centered on repairing the present. Businesses, on the other
hand, are inherently forward-looking and they tend to predict future needs better than
government institutions. We should be using the commissioner’s position to initiate
closer contact between the two areas of our community. I would pressure schools to, in 22
these meetings, adopt a more open work-study program for juniors and seniors.
The benefits for schools would be simple: get the students at school for count day (to
get state funding) and still expose them to necessary college preparation, but make it
more feasible for them to make the money to actually stay in school. Many public
schools are talking about eliminating the 12th year to save money, but I don’t see the
benefit to the quality of education nor how it helps attract businesses.
A comprehensive work-study system infuses schools with an awareness of what

businesses seek in their workers. Young people today are very intelligent and, because
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of that, are completely free to do anything; however, they lack a decisive direction
because of the boredom experienced in high school and college general education
classes. Aimless education leads to aimless students. Many aimless students sit around
doing drugs and having sex. Therefore, we need to give students a representative
sampling of what’s out there so they can effectively determine what they want and aim
for it. You’d be surprised at how much a few goals can do to turn students around even
after most teachers have given up on them (See more about a Work-Study Database on
page 21.
 Citizens’ Advisory Councils: Businesspeople of every occupation are one of the most
consistently competent demographic that I’ve ever had contact with. I believe we
should employ this competence and work on connecting people into a system of
advisory councils. I’ll be intentionally vague about what these ‘have to be’ because it will
work better if the people themselves to decide that. However, I will say that I’ve grown
up in small business and I’ve watched this model help communities all over the state.
When commissioner, I’ll attend whatever meetings any advisory board puts together so 25
long as they plan to be advise honestly. If you're interested in more, please see page 25
for how I’d balance the interests of various advisory councils to avoid bias toward one or
another.
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Challenge 2: Building Over Falling Home Prices

Home values are falling. When it comes to this, most politicians panic and stop thinking. We 26
saw this in the Commission’s 2009 approval of a $32million budget, changing only $2million
of it, and approving a 12% health benefit increase and about 3% in wage increases. The
current commission is avoiding hard decisions and simply ignoring major problems in the
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system. I’ll break that silence.
In reaction to anything I read Scripture and history. I’ve put together the following chart from
the investigation of the recent historical trends in housing prices and assessments:
Home Value Trends

Increase on 'Delay'
Inevitable
Increase*
Pre-Crash 'Equal' Govt 'Normal' 28
'Crisis'
"Surprising" Drop
Normalization
What people More secure in

think is Peak recovery
Real Peak
Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 Stage 5 Stage 6

*May not happen
Market Taxable post-housing bubble
The graph above illustrates housing value trends over time: when a crash happens, the
Assessors will raise or keep the same your taxable values and cite a “Six Month Delay.”As values
continue to drop, Assessors have to bring the values down due to popular pressure, but they’ll
quickly hike them back up when the market shows signs of recovering. When recovery gets
secure and trends start to normalize, assessors bring values back up with slight increases. They
try to keep values at the ‘Govt Normal’ arrow, regardless of what is actually happening.
Governments seem to rarely shoot for a good assessment, their goal is to avoid tough choices 29
and stick as close as possible to that governmental funding norm. It was to avoid those same
tough choices that Comm. Kapenga elected to use ‘Stabilization’ funds (county savings money)
to fill the gap labeled ‘Crisis’ on the graph
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It was very economically liberal for Mr. Kapenga to dip into supplemental money to avoid hard
decisions: politicians in Washington did the same thing with the ‘Stimulus Bill.’ To put it bluntly:
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it’s stupid to try to “ride out” periodic revenue losses because the problems we try to avoid
inevitably pop up again later, as it has this year.5 The challenge for Allegan County is involving
the genius of normal people and integrating their creative solutions to solve our budget
problems.
Solutions 2:
When faced with falling revenues,
governments have two basic options: raise
revenues or make cuts. ‘Raising revenues’ are Did the news get around about a guy
code words for raising taxes or going into named Butcher Pete? He tries to chop
debt/savings: all things I’m not willing to down the wind and the rain!
support. That leaves us with making cuts.
Below are some specifics about the two types
of cutting as well as how our community could buoy home prices during crises.
 Simple cutting: There are hundreds of things you can cut from a $32,000,000 budget
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and no one who works for a living will notice. People that oppose so-called ‘typical
cutting’ will tell you we’re always going to have to cut three things: police officers,
firemen, and teachers. They tell you this because they oppose cuts and these people our
popular in our government. The commission cut the Sheriff’s Department because the
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commissioners want you to opt in to a special millage (aka tax increase: we did with 911
Dispatch funding in 2008). We should be cutting in areas like pay and benefits for
government office workers who already make well above the average for everyone else.
 Complex cutting: So-called ‘Complex cutting’ involves consolidation, maximizing

efficiency, uncovering the crooks, and revolutionizing the norms of the government. 33
Here’s an example:
We have to begin openly talking about the corruption of the government employees
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unions and excluding third-party union reps from the discussion. We live in an age
where we are all are so connected to one another and it has made the paid, forced
union structure obsolete. We need to switch from a paid, forced union structure over to
a social networking-based, voluntary structure centered in things like Facebook groups 35
and email chains to perform the ‘defending’ roles of a union. Once we kick out union
abuses, we’ll be better able root out the bad employees, negotiate more sensible
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http://allegannews.com/articles/2010/02/25/local_news/1.txt
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contracts, and train individuals to best play their roles in the system. This plan gets us
basic cuts in labor/benefit costs from already overcompensated government employees, 36
the ability to treat individuals as individuals and the resulting efficiency improvements,
and contracting with incentives to for each individual to better serve the taxpayer.
 Remedying the Collapse: There are faults inherent in our economic system the “all-
knowing” planners in Lansing and Washington have created. As a local government, the 37
county has a responsibility to use the best cost-reward methods to protect the value of
your home and property. These aren't complex measures: the best way to fix the
housing crisis is a drop in supply. If there are abandoned or blighted houses and
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businesses, the county ought to be tearing these down if the owners cannot be
contacted. It makes little sense to leave abandoned property standing/falling apart if it
will bring property values down by a cumulative $70,000 in a neighborhood and would
only cost $5,000 to remove.
The reverse is also true: if abandoned property is just standing there falling apart, the 39
county ought to be getting people to fix it up. As county commissioner, I’d use the
unique ability of the position to start a parallel, church-based group to work in unison
with the county and develop our community. The process of the group would be simple:
we find an abandoned house, the county condemns the property, we come in and fix
the house up, the county sells the place, and the money is deposited in a fund that pays 40
for more of these investments.6
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Legalisms: County of Wayne vs. Hathcock/Michigan Compiled Law Section 213.13 A county can
eminent domain properties for: “(1) the creation of jobs for its citizens, (2) the stimulation of private
investment and redevelopment in the county to insure a healthy and growing tax base so that the
county can fund and deliver critical public services, (3) stemming the tide of disinvestment and
population loss, and (4) supporting development opportunities which would otherwise remain
unrealized.”
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Challenge 3: Fixing Our Government and Making It Serve Us Better

Years of putting off hard decisions and shutting out public input have brought about an
inefficient and ineffective government to rival the one seated in Lansing. The current
commission’s extensive time blithering over simple matters (it took them 12 years to decide
where to put a new jail) and not addressing the needs of our county and its residents
demonstrates a need for new commissioners with the aptitude to do what must be done.
That’s what I offer you: reopening, rethinking and
reinventing our county government in exchange
for your vote.
We do not have to have a
We have an industrial bureaucratic government deliberately stupid government. 41
that is a portrait of 1960’s Detroit with the paint
peeling. This means that Allegan County’s 791
employees are seeking to find political solutions to the problems facing the county. Much of
this comes from Lansing (of course), but we have a lot of control ourselves. Our budget, for
instance, is 176 pages for $32million, while Kent County’s is only 98 pages for $347million.
There’s a lot that can get lost in 98 pages, but even more in 176.
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In that 176 page budget, we have too many entities trying to accomplish too much
abstract policy with insufficient funding for their current models to be effective. This means
that, in the way we do things now, there are a whole bunch of inefficient entities that are
constantly underfunded. This is simply how liberals in Lansing and Detroit have designed our 43
government: they make it to be biased toward growth and intrusion. Understanding that, it’s
no wonder the state’s just raised taxes over the past couple years: systems like ours, where
power is concentrated unaccountably among bureaucracies (known as ‘multipolar distribution’)
prevent tough decisions from being made.
Bureaucrats politick thru public employees’ unions, leaks to the media, and direct
opposition to change. The real challenge is not that the government structure is broken, the 44
challenge is the work that it’s going to take to fix it. Ask any business owner: systems decay
over time and they’re usually easy to fix. In government, however, entrenched interests keep 45
broken things broken for their own benefit.
My opponent, Mr. Kapenga, ensured that these interests got their 11-13% health
benefit increases and 1.5-2.5% wage raise for 2010,7 even when the rest of us had to cut back
and the county lost revenue. Coupled with the fact that he was/is a member of these unions,
they will protect him in this race: I need your help and your suggestions to fix our government.
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Solutions 3:
The Center for Michigan (nonpartisan think tank) published a report back in May of 2008
called “Michigan’s Defining Moment.” Among the number of basic solutions the report
proposes, it says all governments in Michigan need to fundamentally change the way they do
government. This has stuck with me since those 90+ hour campaign weeks and I’ve
personalized it into three basics steps: Reopen, 46
Rethink, Reinvent.
Reopen: A basic tenet of a healthy

The Founders, particularly Madison and Jefferson, democracy is open dialogue and
had the truly brilliant idea of our institutionally 47
transparency.
decentralized government structure. Not only
-Peter Fenn
does this ‘federalism’ protect freedom, it ensures
that there are a number of different ways of
doing things. If you have a singular method, the flaws of that method will be widespread and 48
difficult to reverse (example: No Child Left Behind). However, if there are 50 different ways, the
good can be easily compared to the bad and the bad can be corrected. This works best, as
Madison wrote in Federalist #10, when free people form their own free opinions and then
freely express them to a government who is held to those various opinions. As demonstrated
by the Tea Party Protests, we are forming out own opinions: we just need a government that 49
will receive and act on them.
Elections do this in larger offices, but a county commission seat is about paying
attention to individuals and listening to their input. As commissioner, you will have my personal 50
phone number and email address. I currently have the basic methods of social networking
(Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Gmail, etc) and these will be open to your ideas and suggestions
while in office. I want to talk to you and know your concerns and complaints, because if elected
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officials don’t know where we’re coming from, how can they even hope to serve us properly?
Check out these specific ways I want to open up government to you.
 Road Networking: The Road Commission can’t possibly know the condition of every
road without your help. It would be very easy to set up a Google Maps-like8 website for 52
you to upload comments and photos to the location on the roads you have to live with
every day. This way you don’t have to waste time being put on hold at the Road
Commission: it brings them to your computer screen.
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http://maps.google.com/
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 Basic social networking for every commissioner: post up about decisions and actually 53
respond to comments on them. Far fewer bad decisions are made when those making
them have to explain them.
 Customer Service surveys: These are incredibly easy to create and I believe they're a net
positive if you're asked a few simple questions about your experience with any given 54
part of the county government. If you, for example, get immunizations from the health
department or adopt a dog from the animal shelter, you’d be asked to leave comments
on how it went and how you think it could be better.
 Involve the Townships, Cities, and Special Districts: if we connect commissioners to 55

those more local bodies in their districts, your concerns will be better addressed at
every level. Right now, the bureaucracy is so incompetent it doesn’t know what’s going
on within its own office buildings. If we connect everyone, everyone can help weed out
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dishonest and crooked people.
Rethink:
We can begin publicly rethinking our approach once government is reopened to ideas from 57
everyone. In the Madisonian tradition, more ways of doing things can be compared and
contrasted to make the best possible method for a better/cheaper/faster/smarter government.
Rethinking involves the most basic assumptions like the role of government to the more specific
stuff like our approach to administering the Parks Department. You can see some examples of
how I’ve been rethinking here.
 Road Technology: West Michigan cannot hope to get the same quality by using the 58
same type of asphalt as Florida. Our weather conditions are unique and very rough on
our roads. Right now we just accept bad roads as ‘just the way it is,’ but we can
dramatically change that by incorporating new technologies into our roads. I propose
heating roads above freezing via passive geothermal energy systems bringing up the
heat that God has provided beneath all of our feet. Water seeping under roads, freezing,
bubbling up the pavement, and then being crushed is how a pothole forms (see diagram
in Appendix A): if we spend a little now (roughly the cost of two years’ plowing) we can
take the freezing factor out of the equation and save HUGE amounts of money and time
within the next five years.
That’s just one real, innovative solution that we can easily generate if we are open to
new ideas. I’ve heard of recycled-tire (rubber)-based (as opposed to tar-based) asphalts 59
that perform much better under stress. We also have really crazy things like roads/lane
lines that don’t just reflect the light you shine on them, but actually glow in the dark.
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 Commission Audit/Investigation Model: Good government x

demands that elected officials keep close watch on y
unelected and appointed officials. I propose we reinvigorate
the investigative functions of the county commission by 60
dividing commissioners into triads and give each group some z
part of the county to audit. They’d look at the goals that the
program has, the metrics set to reach those goals, whether those metrics are being
satisfied by the strategies used, and identify sensible tasks. Following their investigation 61
and in time for the next budgeting round, the three commissioners would collaborate to
write out a report with a modified list of goals, metrics, strategies, and tasks for the 62
department to work on. All findings should be posted on the county website and 63
released to the media. This model localizes corruption and destroys the ‘good ole boys’
network that tends to form in local governments. Hopefully it will get more people
involved as well.
 Privatization: This is a word that’s dropped from use under Jennifer Granholm. It means
to take government functions and contract them out to more efficient, more effective 64
private businesses. John Engler and Ken Sikkema started a trend of this in the 1990’s
and Michigan had a 3% unemployment rate. I’d like to go thru the government and
privatize every function possible. We could hold an auction where all of our functions 65
are open to businesses bidding, not just where the government tells the businesses
what they can buy. We should also consider privatizing beyond single contracts in the
attempt of getting a bulk discount: perhaps we can contract a steady and predictable set
of Heath Department functions to a single health establishment with a bulk discount. 66
Much of this I’ve studied from areas in the country that have been working.
In Indianapolis, for example, former mayor Steve Goldsmith privatized many city assets
as well as 80 city services through a managed competition process. They found that
every time they set up a competitive bidding platform, they saved roughly 25% while
increasing the quality of the services. His managed competition allowed the government
workers’ unions to bid as well.
They lost most of the time, but one of the major norms of privatization is that winning, 67
private firms hold over and retrain those who are now public employees. Those who
actually do the work win out because they get more individual control over their
surroundings and can make their jobs better while making more money from their
solutions. Second generation winning bidders (many times these individual employees) 68
tended to keep on earlier staff and change the way they did their jobs for the better.
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There is a sizable difference between the privatized ‘world that works’ and the
politician-driven, politician-centered system we have now.
It’s easier to have a government where politicians don’t have commercial contracts to 69
hand out to their friends and keep away from their enemies. Privatization dramatically
increases transparency by taking government services out of the micromanaging of
politicians and putting them under the trustworthy control of the best services
taxpayers’ money can buy.
 Consolidation and Cuts: Duplicated functions and administrative structures are

unnecessary costs you pay for at the expense of adequate performance from your
government. We need to squish the Drain Commission into the Road Commission: the 70
RC has the equipment and capacity to do what has to be done to prevent more summer
flooding. Budget items like Network Systems, Telephone Services, Information Services, 71
Duplicating, and the rest of the office tech functions can easily be consolidated into a
cheaper, more specialized Information Technology department if we’re going to get
serious about employing technology for a better/cheaper/faster/smarter government
(Kent County had a lot of success with this – see page 31). We should also think about
multilateral combinations among township, city, and county functions can best use our 72
resources.
We can bring law enforcement functions under a single, county entity to better 73
distribute the resources cities and townships are wasting right now. Not only is it
monetarily more efficient, but one body is better at transferring information to other
counties/state organizations. Consolidating law enforcement both saves money and
keeps us safer, but you have to rethink your approach to do it.
 Activity-based budgeting: Right now we have a ‘line-item’ budget. Former

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commissioners made a list of every single item that the county was going to use for a
fiscal year a long time ago. That budget was, then, annually adjusted and reorganized
based on needs, inflation, and revenue growth (it assumes never changing growth).
When revenue shrinks, the line-item budget system fails to perform and we end up with
a deficit.
In the 2010 budget, the commissioners changed only $2 million out of a $32 million
budget to overcome the deficit. Being that the current model plans for endless revenue
growth, the failures of the obsolete system popped up, bad decisions were then made
and those with more influence in Allegan became the priority. It just so happens that, in
the 2010 budget, the county’s 11 unions had a stronger voice than you and I, and
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Commissioner Kapenga ensured that they got the raises in wages and health coverage9
that nearly all of us did not.
The “Activity-based budget” I’m proposing has thousands of advantages both short- and
long-term over line-item budgets. Those of you involved in business may recognize it as
“task budgeting” or “performance budgeting,” but the principles are the same. Instead
of listing, for example, ‘a shovel, a person, and a sandwich’ it says ‘We dug a hole.’
Digging a hole doesn’t involve wasting money on a new shovel, nor does it involve
special interests spending money as soon as they get it. This helps us constantly rethink
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the way we do things and not just what we’re buying.
 Divided Budgeting: The second part of budget reform involves dividing Capital from 76
Maintenance budgets. In the capital budget, those things that will be constructed or just
plain ‘new’ are listed. Funding for new roads and the new jail would go there. In the
maintenance budget, we’d list ongoing costs like plowing and policing. The capital
section of the budget drastically changes every year and is, therefore, under more
scrutiny. When transfers and reflections happen with the maintenance side, more
scrutiny is put there as well.
Maintenance budgets also help the public determine a political agenda: it tells us, for
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instance, how much it costs to fill in a pothole. When Indianapolis went to divided,
activity-based budgeting, they found out that they were paying upwards of $70 to fill a
pothole because six government union workers were driving around all day in a truck,
limited to filling in only one pothole each. It is very difficult to discover things like that
unless we go with a budget that talks about what we’re doing, not what we’re buying.
Reinvent:
After we rethink our approach, we have to institutionalize it keeping in mind that those changes
we make will go sour over time and they’ll have to be rethought in the future. Reinvention in 78
this context focuses on the debate and method for bring those changes we want into the
government.
 First, we make demands of our government. Solving problems to make government

work for citizens will change the worlds of many. These people will object.
 Second, we shape the debate. We have to modify conditions surrounding the debate to
bring the changes we want.
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 Third, we keep making the demand.
 Fourth, we bring the debate to them.
 Fifth, we bring our case to those not involved.
Challenge 4: Coming Together in a Fragmenting Culture

Our County is a great place to live because of our culture. That culture is diluted when we
isolate ourselves from a changing cultural environment. We’re challenged to unite against 79
divisive temptations.
Warning: Bible Verses ahead! Secular Fanatics May Experience Migraines, High Blood
Pressure, Involuntary Twitching, and a Need to Contact the American Civil Liberties Union.
The challenges to the Christian West Michigan culture are greater today than they have been
before. The Internet and the advent of easier methods of communicating across geography 80
help us pull into static social circles. Again, Ottawa and Allegan Counties differed from the rest
of Michigan by posting population growth in 2009:10 this shows that people with cultures
different than ours are moving in faster than ever.
I was, once, a ‘transplant’ to Hamilton. I was

born in Ypsilanti, MI and grew up (until I was 14) in Unless a grain of wheat is buried in
Brighton, MI (roughly two hours driving east). I’m of the ground, dead to the world, it is
a mixed, European heritage that goes back never more than a grain of wheat.
generations in the Metro Detroit area: a But if it is buried, it sprouts and
Michigander through and through. My parents had reproduces itself many times over. In
divorced when I was 5, leaving my brother and I the same way, anyone who holds on
with my incredible mother and, at my age 11, she
to life just as it is destroys that life.
remarried - 3 became 4. It wasn’t soon after that
John 12:24-25
my new dad’s hard work paid off in a promotion
and transfer to Uniform Color Company’s
headquarters in Holland. I found my ‘niche’ here much faster than the rest of my family. Life is
just easier here, I made the friends I still have today and became immersed in the community.
My assimilation sped up when I started dating Katelyn: she and her family really embraced me
and helped me discover everything taken for granted around here.
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http://www.hollandsentinel.com/news/x1664772475/Ottawa-Allegan-counties-post-population-gains
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Compare my willed transformation with the experiences of the rest of my family: my 81

brother’s social circles are minimal here, yet he retains his closest friends from Brighton. My
parents enjoy their Saturday nights with a couple also not native to West Michigan and their
Sunday mornings with coffee in the living room. When I say goodbye to them as I leave for
church, I am reminded of my transformation away from their cultural fragment and toward
those I join at Overisel Reformed. However, we tend to respond to the changes in the people
around us by closing off the substantive parts of our lives to them and interacting only with
people like us.
We center ourselves in so much our own activities, occupations, and especially churches 82
that we begin building small nodule groups like my parents with their friends and like many in
my church family. It’s on the topic of social isolation that we ought to think about the verse
from John here. The threat to our Christian culture in the 21st century is not being diluted by
‘outside’ influences, it’s from us holding onto our grain of wheat and keeping our culture in 83
social circles where it presently exists.
The second dimension to society as we know it is the improved information technology

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that permits ‘clustering’ over great distances. I was walking in the residential area of Grand
Valley State University’s campus a few years back when the friend I was with asked why
everyone had their window shades closed in the middle of a very nice day. The answer was and
is simple: our computer screens are glowing windows to the world, why do our blinds need to
be open? These new tools for isolation can prevent hopes of homogeneity and unified direction
in our community; the challenge they pose is a simple disinterest in knowing your neighbors. 85
Over time, this can be very dangerous to the integrity of a civilization.
Solutions 4:
Notice that these are not political problems. In fact, they aren't problems at all: they're facts.
However, to confront these new realities and continue keeping Allegan County the great
place to live it is, there are solutions which impact our politics.
 Living Up to Our Own Rule Book
At the beginning of my campaign, I wrote out what I had been studying for a few
months before deciding to run. I sent it into the Allegan County News and they were
kind enough to publish it for me. It doesn’t have a succinct title, but the Editor of the
ACN titled it, ‘Campaigning Requires a Christian Conviction’ and I think that works. I was
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hoping to spread to candidates that Christian politicians can’t call themselves Christian
and still campaign like everyone else. You can find a copy of the letter in Appendix B.
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The aim, however, is genuine for every aspect of our lives: we have to live by our own
rule books.
More people defect from Christian communities because they see the few times 87
our people do not practice what they preach as evidence of an entire community’s
hypocrisy. People in this part of the world are very good at living by their rule books, but
I’m challenging you to live by the Best Tradition in every part of your life. I intend to take
this to the county government. We have to hold our institutions up to impeccable 88
standards and I intend to give Allegan a moral audit. People inside the government
generally see many things they do as morally acceptable (closing meetings to the public,
closing contracting) that those of us outside the government would find reprehensible. I
promise you that I will expose dishonesty, backroom dealings, preferential treatment, 89
and leftism directly to you. We need a transparent government whose business is
disclosed online for all to see.
 English as a Second Language
The first step to incorporating immigrants into our community is teaching them English.
Katelyn teaches English as a Second Language (ESL) courses voluntarily in Holland and I
see no reason why we shouldn’t set that system up here. The county already employs 90
paid ESL teachers, we simply need to convert them to administrators of a county-wide
system of bilingual volunteers to greatly expand the impact of the program with no
extra cost.
 Work-Study Database
I don’t have to tell you that adolescents are some of the most culturally deviant people
out there. Having been in their position more recently than most, I can tell you that
deviance makes sense given their situation. Our students are forced into government
schools five days a week where they learn little and every morning is Boredom Morning. 91
It’s no wonder many turn to sex and drugs if they're bored and directionless. I say break
that. Co-op and work study programs have done it, but the choices are limited. I believe
the county ought to put together a work-study database to open up students to more
possibilities because, if you want to be a doctor, you shouldn’t be working in a
restaurant. Over half of Michigan students leave the state and, if we want to keep them 92
in the area, we have to network them into the world of productivity while we can!
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Challenge 5: Growing with Agriculture in the 21st Century

Please take note that this is not “Growing 21st century Agriculture:” this is not about planning
farm operations whatsoever. If you see page 12, I’m not the ‘planner’ type. Agriculture,
though, and the conditions surrounding agriculture are changing. They're changing as fast if
not faster than anything but the medical field in today’s world. Because it’s changing so
rapidly and it’s such a huge topic to cover in a few pages, this Challenge is divided to make it
easier to read and reference.
Crop Challenges
For me, agriculture is all about this year’s crop and next year’s crop: yield and the sustainability
of that yield. While free farmers operating in free markets best ensure crop price stability and a
steady, sustainable increase in yield, it is management of the outside factors affecting both 93
yield and sustainability that farmers have consistently entrusted public officials with. The
challenge to a sustainable Allegan County annual harvest has two dimensions: soil and heavier
rainfall.11
1- Soil because, for 70 years, we’ve had a crop-focused, price-based subsidies model that 94
has caused many to see soil as merely a medium in which to plant and hold crops. Thus,
by treating soils this way and adding the nutrients ourselves, our soils are no longer rich
in organic organisms and are less capable of holding moisture and resisting erosion. That
has dramatically changed in recent history: farmers are making no-till improvements
and those who don’t are failing. The incentive to keep viable soil assets and the history
of farmers doing so shows me that the individual farmers are handling this just fine. In
the interim and for those crop cycles hard on the soil, runoff will still be a concern.
Further, less-quality soil requires more irrigation which usually means a lower water
table and many residents having to drill their wells deeper.
2- Heavier rainfall because of the flooding in the past two summers. After it happened in
2008, local experts said it wouldn’t happen again for 100-years. When it happened again
in 2009, there wasn’t a coherent response. 2009’s floods washed out about 4% of the
Allegan County crops12 and did a substantial amount of residential damage. Are those
who were wrong about the 2009 flooding potentially wrong about wetter weather this
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year and beyond?
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Just to be clear: I do not believe in ‘man-made’ or ‘man-caused’ global warming/climate
change/whatever Al Gore has decided to call it now. The infamous, exposed emails from East Anglia University
(about fudged numbers and purposefully fabricated data) are evidence enough that I will never be on that
particular bandwagon. Heavier rainfall is possibly a natural trend that we ignore at our own peril.
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http://blog.mlive.com/kzgazette/2008/06/michigan_department_of_agricul_1.html
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It’s certainly something worth keeping in mind: combining more rainfall with soil instability
spells a problem for residential areas until we reach the culmination of farmers’ gradual trend 96
toward full soil stability. Even if the weather changes drastically and farmers adapt their
crops/genetics (as they would), there would be new runoff/groundwater challenges. The
challenge for the county in the next 10 to 20 years is to engage farmers in creating a new 97
drainage system of minimal hassle to all.
Livestock/Animal Products Challenges

The accumulation of capital from, basically, the 1940’s to the 1960’s began this trend of
‘industrial farming’ where farm-bred poultry, cattle, or pigs live in close proximity in climate-
controlled environments with readily available food and waste disposal systems. The EPA has
labeled them ‘Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations’ (CAFOs), better known as ‘factory
farms.’ Many of us pass these elongated white barns every day. For the typical ‘public planner,’
decently-sized CAFOs present the following challenges: utilities, shipping demands, and
emergency management as well as the more superficial aspects of the way they look and smell.
I’m not a typical ‘planner’ and, as I’ve
Typical Course of a Product
watched, the free market has dealt
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very effectively with these challenges. Price
The real challenge of CAFOs, usually ($)
unrecognized by the ‘planners,’ is
Patent
verticalization.
Exchange
Verticalization is a benefit for
(Supply +
our county: it is a fact and not a Demand in
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Availability
makes them cheaper and gets
products to customers quicker. As the Time
Release onto Market
technology necessary reaches the
‘Widespread Availability’ region in the graph to the right, more farms will be in-sourcing. It is
also a fact that the Hamilton Farm Bureau egg processing plant does not perform as well as
those egg farms like Schipper’s Poultry with on-location processing and packaging. Combine the
clear advantage of speed with the price of the necessary machinery falling and the Farm
Bureau’s egg division has a big problem. To remedy problems like this, townships could be 100
pressured to change zoning codes to outlaw use of this type of machinery in agricultural zones.
That’s the path to economic decline for our area. The other option (besides shutting down) is
for the egg plant to change dramatically.
Like the rest of the centralized institutions hurting from the transition toward a
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decentralized reality, the egg plant will probably not be able to find the investment capital to
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make the changes needed. This is the same phenomenon large cities experience with central
urban decay: the networks for investment flow collapse with the shrinking role of the
centralized institutions, organizations fail (good for the economy) and leave buildings empty 103
(bad for the economy).
Emergency Management Challenges

As agriculture evolves, we have to be thinking about reasonable preparations for worst-
case-scenarios involving the new technologies. Ironically beautiful examples of these new
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demands are the large liquid waste tanks set up beside factory farms. If they are ‘compromised
structurally’ (bluntly: a very large, very nasty poop spill), we’ve got a problem. Those bacteria
and those chemicals will be flowing into the groundwater and then downhill. In Allegan County,
downhill means toward rivers. Rivers mean towns. Towns mean wells. Wells mean drinking
water. Contaminated drinking water means a lot of sick kids going to Urgent Care. Yes, this
situation is improbable given what a huge improvement these tanks are from waste lagoons,
but we do plan for trains derailing, nuclear and biochemical attacks (none of which seem more 105
probable than tank failures, especially as the buildings get older). Putting in place mere runoff
revisions (as they did about two years ago) and not seriously addressing deep ground water
issues is dangerous. The challenge here is to develop systems that sensibly forecast the dangers
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farming operations (see page 26).
Security Challenges
We’re also challenged to develop greater levels of security against drug-related theft, bomb- 107
making (farfetched), and many other possibilities concerning the advent of more complex
chemicals used more exclusively in agriculture. We’re seeing the first major problem with this
specialization in anhydrous ammonia (common fertilizer) and its uses in the manufacture of
methamphetamine. Conditions have improved since many farmers have begun using meth-
potency-decreasing dyes, but this measure will be inevitably overcome by crafty drug cooks.
Strengthening security and raising awareness are areas where county officials have to work 108
with (not over) farmers to combat social ills like meth. The dilemma is the same as that
between the code-writer and the code-cracker: the crackers have an easier job, usually
attempted by greater numbers, and always keep the writers at a disadvantage. The challenge of
21st century agricultural security deeply involves a fresh, concerted effort among every farmer, 109
law enforcement officer, and policymakers to outnumber and outsmart desperate addicts.
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Solutions 5:
Farmers are the most consistently competent group of people out there. They are miles ahead
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of politicians, bureaucrats, and college faculty. Therefore, the county must free up the farmer
to be successful in their businesses and, in the areas where Lansing has stampeded our
jurisdiction, directly involve farmers on every decision and action that even remotely concerns 111
their field. We can’t ignore all the political plots concerning ‘food economics’ that have resulted
in disastrous consequences.
 Agricultural Advisory Councils: It is with this in mind that I am and will be open to the 112
organization of Agricultural Advisory Councils. I’d like these to function as a loosely
constructed and casual interest group for, of and by area farmers. In the ‘Beating a
Horrible Business Climate’s’ Solutions section (page 9), you’ll find more on the nature of
these advisory boards. With the different types, however, they all need free and equal
time to discuss the county’s actions (weighing the interests of, say, retail against those
of ag). I’m going to be purposefully vague because I merely want these groups to give a 113
voice to the interests of the individual farmer and agribusinessman. Calling them
‘councils’ or ‘boards’ only gives those voices more weight/power in the perception of
other politicians (“Chris Wicker requests” is less powerful than “Manlius Township’s Ag
Advisory Council requests” even though the message is the same thing). Contacting
individual farmers, whether or not they wish to belong to some organization, is key to
every Solution I am proposing to you.
 Joint Drainage Projects: Being that bad drainage results in bad yields, most farmers 114
already tile their fields. As referenced in the ‘Heavier Rainfalls’ challenge to crops,
individuals operating in the free markets (farmers, businesses, and residents) have
already begun moving toward a modernized and soil-stable system of drains. This is why
almost all drainage problems are located at public roads and badly administered
government drainage infrastructure. We need to rethink the way we do drainage
projects and begin doing them jointly with farmers so they can operate best with field
tiling. Such efficient unorthodoxy requires county commissioners who will agree to
better project funding methods and a drain commissioner with a ‘psychology of the 115
future.’ I’ll work towards better funding methods as county commissioner (see Gov’t
Structure, page 17-18). I’ll work to change the county hiring/firing procedures so we can
retrain drainage employees or, frankly, fire them if they are more interested in their
own interests than serving the county better. I’ll work with the current Drain
Commissioner to bring about positive change and, the next election, campaign for any
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 Automated Water-Content Detection System: State Senator Patty Birkholz helped pass
the Great Lakes Water Compact which, among other things, establishes state-funds to
install GPS locators in residential wells. While I disagree with the parts of the act that
permit well-plotting regardless of owner consent, and it’s very wasteful to install GPS
locators on anything that isn’t exactly going to get up and walk away, we can install GPS
locators in consenting residents’ wells that detect and send water content readings to a
computer at the Land Information Services Department or Central Dispatch via cell
connection. Such a system would be a bulwark against dangers from unreported 117
chemical spills, leaks and dumps. Using the Mobile Alert system described on page 31,
the computer could contact you if your water isn’t safe to drink. Also, a developed web
of these devices will help the Sheriff’s department triangulate the locations of meth labs
(given that meth labs have to dump four pounds of hazardous chemicals for every 118
pound of the drug they make). We should contact the geology departments at Western,
Hope, and Grand Valley to figure out the specifics and, eventually, contract the
installation out cheap to the schools. Such a system would eliminate the need for runoff
testing at farms and reduce the hassle (not to mention the cost) of periodic testing for
everyone involved.
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Challenge 6: Overcoming Our Spread-out Population

Allegan County is the largest county in the Lower Peninsula with a smaller total population
than many others. We are dispersed over our land and this presents unique challenges for the
county. Models of government put in place elsewhere will not work for our county. We need
to use our individual genius to find our own ways of addressing our own challenges as we 119
have done spectacularly with methamphetamine diversion program.
Our commissioners go to Grand Rapids, Holland, Lansing, and Kalamazoo and learn methods to
address our problems. They, then, come back to Allegan and apply these solutions. When they
don’t work, there are really two reactions: the commissioners either freak out and go with what
the bureaucrats wants because it sounds plausible; or they stop talking about the original
problem and the problems with the failed policy because their egos can’t handle being wrong.
Just from the two-dimensional numbers, we see where other counties’ solutions won’t work: 120
 Allegan County is 1,833 sqmi while Kent County (including GR) is 872 sqmi.
 The areas of Allegan that are dense are separated by large areas with few people, Kent’s
population is much more metropolitan.
 Allegan’s population is about 112,000; Kent’s is 574,000.
 Including the Road Commission budgets, Allegan’s county government spends

$64million to Kent’s $347million.
If we continue with the copycat approaches of the current commissioners, we will always be
spending more money for less quality. Image a Pyrex cooking dish: if you fill an 8” x 8” dish with 121
a half inch of water and then empty it into a 16” x 16”, it only has a quarter inch of water. In the
budget, the Road Commission (RC) comprises 41% of our total spending while Kent’s is only 8%.
Though each is around $27million, Kent’s RC spends double per square mile and delivers higher 122
quality service. ‘Spreading’ is apparent elsewhere to a lesser extent: the Sheriff and 911
functions make up 25% of our spending while only 17.5% in Kent and the Drain Commission
takes up .5% of our budget while only .2% of Kent’s (remarkable given the much more extensive
control of drainage in Kent county).
The reason is simple: we’ve got too much space to cover for the current model. With all 123
the entities challenged by geography, there are three options before us: accept lower quality
(which we’ve done), raise taxes (which we’ve done), or reinvent the system to meet our needs.
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Solutions 6:
Being that accepting more cost for a worse product is absurd, and raising taxes never works,
we have to reinvent the system with remedies for this specific challenge. The need for reform
isn’t isolated ‘mobile’ and spread out functions: counties’ records on ‘sedentary’ functions is
sketchy (see chart), though the need there is less pressing. We have to migrate what is
working in the private sector to the government in order to properly address our challenges, 124
not doing so means ‘bowing to reality’ instead of changing it to fit our needs.
"Sedentary" Costs Allegan Kent Allegan % Kent %

Circuit Court $941,880 $17,313,000 1.5 5.0
District Court $1,667,444 $2,822,217 2.6 0.8
Facilities Mgmt $2,809,771 $14,207,970 4.4 4.1
Information Tech† $1,088,721 $5,183,126 1.7 1.5
:SUM: $6,507,816 $39,526,313 10.2 11.4
† Allegan: Info Services, Network Systems, Telephone, etc.

Source: Allegan and Kent FY2010 budgets
 Incorporate everyone into the decision making process: the loudest or most influential
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cannot be the only people served by a liberty-respecting government. We have to
involve people on every street if we are to get a proper discussion. See the “Reopening
Our Government” list of specifics.
 Make the right investments in information technology: We’ve got a profound addiction
to paper that can easily be broken by simply using technology to overcome copying, 126
processing, and mailing costs. The Internet itself easily overcomes geography and we
have to use the ‘web’ idea to remedy this challenge. See the “Tech” challenge for more
details.
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‘heat map’ (where more people live are red or ‘hot’) and decentralize county
establishments among the most densely populated areas, we’ll have a more
‘personalized’ structure. While this cannot be done in the current Michigan constitution
(as per the Attorney General), we can change the way we approach localities. I suggest
holding county commission meetings in different places all the time. There are enough
churches to meet in: why not? It gets the county commission to, primarily, experience 128
the roads of this county as well as the people and areas they may not see in their
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normal lives. Properly advertised, these meetings in different commission districts could
boost Republican voter turnout and involvement in the county.
 Activate people: My neighborhood should not have access to cable internet, but it does
because the builder and the first buyers were active enough to get the company to run 130
cable down to us. We have to activate people -in both the dense and spread out areas-
to improve their own homes. If neighborhoods work in concert with township and city
officials as well as their county commissioner, they will be able to bring a face to
numbers in a government ledger and do what otherwise could not be done.
Challenge 7: Advancing Past Technological Challenges

Living in a largely rural county, we have a major disadvantage in the development of
technological infrastructure. Some areas choose to not develop right now and, in the future,
it will not be a choice. Allegan County cannot afford to fall behind Ottawa and Kent in tech
advancement unless we want to doom ourselves to a generation of hindered growth and
severe experiences in recessions. If I am elected, the commission will have its first ever high-
tech voice seeking both to integrate efficient technology into the government and to prepare 131
for the economic progress of our county in the 21st century.
Throughout history, technological advances have been introduced to urban areas and then
diffuse to suburban before out into rural areas. Today we see the trend in our limited access to 132
high-speed internet, modern heating methods, 21st century electrical infrastructure, cell phone
coverage, and fiber-optic communications. The two requirements to bring these technologies
to us are ‘industrial linkage’ and demonstrating the potential life improvements for those who
would otherwise go without.
The government gets in the way of industrial linkage. Townships and cities franchise out 133
to companies for them to bring in their technology. Heath Township, for instance, just sold a
cable franchise last year that they had been putting off for years. It made the township
$40,000. While it seems good for the townships, having to pay to enter a market generates a
‘threshold’ that the service provider must foresee overcoming in an acceptable amount of time
before they’ll bring the service in. The other dimension of opposition comes from backward
townships boards (not so much in cities) that willfully keep developments out because they
seem to think an underground cable is going to destroy the place they live.
The risk in not advancing infrastructure is profound: right now we might choose to not
advance, but after we get further behind northeast Ottawa County in offering technological 134
options, our property values will drop and we will not have the option of advancing. Detroit is a
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perfect example. The Detroit of the 1950’s and 60’s is gone because they made decisions (like
ripping up the trolley system at GM’s direction) that have decimated property values and driven
900,000 people from the city since then. The culture that was Detroit has been replaced with a
government-dependency, criminal reality that has destroyed that city – I do not want anything
of the sort happening here.
Technological development is key to preserving and advancing our unique way of life
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here in West Michigan. We have to be open to importing and integrating technology, period.
That alone isn’t enough: the second dimension is having people realize the potential of using
that technology.
If a corporation wishes to run a gas line by your house and you plan to keep using
propane (at a higher cost and inconvenience), why would the gas provider keep offering the 136
option? The same is true for every technology out there: if the providers don’t see a market,
they will not take the risk and bring it in (especially in this economy). The family is extremely
important in communicating the benefits of advancements.
You can much more easily explain and demonstrate to your parents (it doesn’t matter if
they're 45, 65, or 100 years old) the value of cable television, high-speed internet, fiberoptic 137
communications, 21st century utilities, 4G cell phone connections and modern appliances. If the
technology is available, installation and a year’s coverage as part of Christmas or Birthday gift
fuels the explosion of our standard of living much faster than passive advertisements and cheap
slogans. I have personally participated in this many times with my grandparents who, if we had
not ‘pushed’ the issue, probably wouldn’t have a cell phone. Without a cell phone, they would
have gone longer without emergency services and could very well have passed away. Beside
just the personal good, their sustaining service helped increase the funding base of Sprint,
allowing the company to invest in a tower to extend coverage to even more people. More
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coverage means more potential access and more personal good for individuals. Without family
contact, they probably wouldn’t have purchased the service and the spread of the technology
would have been that little bit hindered.
Without a culture of passing technological improvements onto others, cities today

would be a lot less technologically developed than they are. They’d look, incidentally, more like
our area. In order to bring jobs, improve our businesses, increase our home values, bring our
communities closer, and enrich every dimension of our families, we have to participate in
improving the lives of those around us by ‘creating a need’ in them for better technology. When 139
grandma can quickly access pictures and videos of her grandchildren anytime and grandpa can
strengthen his heart while playing the Wii with those children, I believe we will dramatically
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empower everything that is good about West Michigan and ensure that our culture will live and
thrive throughout the 21st century.
Solutions 7:
Much of what I propose here requires no direct action from the political powers you have
provided to a county commissioner, but my plans here use the networking capacity and
professional duties of a county commissioner to get them done. A county commissioner 140
should be representing his district (and county) to distant corporations seeking to do
business: too often this doesn’t happen and I am
interested in making it so. For these specific ideas, I’ll
clearly list the places where government power (taxpayer Any sufficiently advanced
money) is used. technology is indistinguishable
 Revolutionize Emergency Management with a from magic
Cellular Alert System: Emergency Management is -Arthur C. Clark
an area that we desperately need to infuse with
technological developments. The most basic is a voluntary cell phone alert system. We 141
should use the new 911-Dispatch millage passed in 2008 to purchase and install a
system where you’ll get a call if there is an emergency in your area. Opting into the
program would be simple: you’d go to a website, type in your phone number along with
your zip code and then you’d select if you wanted a text message or robocall in case of
an emergency. The advantage of this is simple: you don’t have to wait until you read the
newspaper or watch the local news to find out that you're in danger. For instance, if a
train derails, spills chemicals, and your family shouldn’t be drinking the well water: it’s
better to know about it when it happens rather than find out when you're in Urgent
Care and a little one’s throat is closing up. We could even offer an option in the program
beyond such dire situations to message you about anything in your area which involves 142
911-dispatch that could throw off your day (closing main roads due to fires or major car
accidents, for example). Systems like this don’t cost any significant amount of money to
install or maintain and the potential to save lives is too great to continue to ignore.
 Information Technology Department: Right now the county has a Network Systems
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department very few functions as well as an Information Systems budget item with
more funding. There’s also mention in the 176 pages to telephone work and various
other cable/information functions. I believe it will be most efficient to consolidate these
into a single Information Technology Department defined in an activity-based budget. A
central structure within the government will be key to transforming all our systems to
be more efficient and make the best use of available technology. In the divided budget,
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the IT Department would be composed of very few people in charge of regulating the 144
flow of technology in the county government. IT functions ought to be outsourced to
small businesses based on an open, competitive bid system. Opening a market like this
generates a constant demand that will be served by people in the county. This will also
help expand the availability of computer repair shops that make owning a computer
more feasible and simply easier for the vast majority of people.
 Digitization: Digitizing records is a difficult and slow process. It involves hours and hours
of typing up old text and entering information: I’ve done it before. We should set up a 145
program to pay a flat rate for digitization and open it up to students. As commissioner,
I’ll go to the local high schools and request that they set up a work-study system both in-
school and after-school to help with this digitization. I’d also request that schools set up
a volunteer hour requirement and make it fulfilled by working for pay in our program.
This will help us drastically reduce the enormous per-page price of $4 that many
universities have incurred. They paid hourly and the workers merely slowed down to
earn more money. I propose a flat rate: the going price should be, perhaps, $30 for
every 100 pages. It’s cheap, but digitizing (once you get the hang of retyping) can be
very easy. Beyond that, students are incentivized to find more technologically advanced,
faster ways of transcription (character-recognition scanning to replicate text via a 146
scanner onto a word processing document). If anything, this will make college an option
for many students
 Skip the Technologies of Today, Shoot for Tomorrow: We have little to gain by
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spending valuable time and money to install technologies that will be obsolete for our
purposes within the next 5 to 10 years. Frankly, we need to give up on pursuing
DSL/cable internet and begin bringing in fiber-optic infrastructure to stay at pace with
our neighbors. We should also give up seeking to spread natural gas access and focus on
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bringing geothermal and other home-based, self-sufficient methods for heating beyond
propane. Further, I believe we need to rethink the municipal model of a central sewer
and water system for areas like Hamilton and East Saugatuck; smaller, neighborhood-
based septic fields are much more effective and much less costly than running pipes to a
treatment plant and back. Further, we should be actively thinking and talking about 149
‘greywater’ (dishwater, wastewater from rinsing your hands, washing machine output)
recycling, on-demand heated water, and rainwater collection all have a big potential to
save all of us money. You can see the tool for doing all of this at the end of this
‘specifics’ list: it’s something I’m extremely excited about!
 Compensate for ‘Moore’s Law:’ Written by Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore in the
1960’s, Moore’s Law states, among other things, that computing power you can buy per
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dollar doubles every 16 months. Doing the math, that’s a 100 fold increase every
decade. The rate of increase is even faster for data storage capacity and network
transfer abilities. Moore’s Law has been true since the 1890’s. The jail we build and
other initiatives we undertake today, if they're not updated over time, will be 100 times
more obsolete in 10 years, 10,000 more in 20, and 10 billion in 50. This really goes along
with the previous point: we have to stay ahead of the game if we are to stay at
acceptable efficiency relative to businesses and other organizations in the future. We
have to avoid the phenomenon of the Post Office where, right now, it operates at
efficiency/effectiveness acceptable in 1945, but is considered a complete failure in
2010. To remedy Moore’s Law and the progress of technological capabilities, we have to
build our systems in such a way that they will regularly scan the planet for better ways
to serve the taxpayer and then assimilate these new, better functions into how they 150
address their daily commitments. It is with the scanning/assimilation dynamic in mind
that I propose to you the next point…
 ACATS:
‘Allegan County Active Technological Summit’ (ACATS) is the result of my mentally 151
trying out different ways to scan/assimilate advancements into the county and make
the education available to everybody. We all know the government couldn’t possibly
keep up technologically, so my thoughts turned to private individuals who already scan
and assimilate for their own purposes. I had first thought that you could borrow the
cutting edge from businesses, but they keep that information secret for competitive
reasons and aren't very willing to part with it until it’s no longer on the cutting edge.
Again, I was faced with how to network and consult a widespread number of private
individuals. It was at that time a young friend of mine mentioned that he was going to a
robotics camp for Spring Break and that, for $6,000, his robotics team would be able to
work with one of the most complex supercomputers in the world.
I first thought we could do a technological camp, but this doesn’t make much
sense because it’s rather expensive and difficult to maintain. What about, then, a short
meeting or summit modeled after those elsewhere that are now networking 152
technologically-oriented people together. It’s not only the developers that are
interested: I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t want to experience the brand new
developments and latest technology our world has to offer. I came to the conclusion
that we can develop a convention to attract West Michigan’s technologically-adept
people to our county with the purpose of sharing their developments.
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One area this would help is agriculture. More farmers, today, are holding off-
farm jobs than ever before and are bringing the skills they gain there to agriculture (see 153
Appendix C). ACATS would help Allegan County farmers overcome the discrimination
against ‘common folk’ in our science and technology sectors today. ACATS would give
them a medium to capitalize on the results of the skills they bring onto the farm.
The investment needed to create that medium is minimal: thousands of 154

companies want to advertise new products and thousands of inventors, software
writers, and investors are looking to get into the market. ‘If we build it, they will come’
and they’ll most of the work for us. Both the small-timers and the big firms have things
to offer Allegan County’s individuals, businesses, schools, and governments to make us
all more efficient, more productive, and more employed. ACATS will help us catalyze a
technologically advanced county prepared to compete in the world market from a
platform of good values, safe streets, better schools, and a higher standard of living.
With a ‘Tech Fair,’ we can all choose whether or not to expand what we know about
new ways to do things for our homes and businesses that are potentially very helpful.
Coincidentally, the idea for a new, start-up convention meets the needs of our County
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Fair currently faced with sliding attendance and in need of updating.
The firing of County Fair Manager Terry Bonnell by the Fair Board is one of our
area’s great personal tragedies begat by organizations seeking to solve surface problems
while ignoring deeper flaws. County and state fairs everywhere are suffering declining
attendance and participation. I believe this is because County Fairs haven’t yet fully
entered the 21st century and don’t meet the demands of an increasingly information-
oriented population. Adding ACATS on-location to the Fair, if advertised properly, will
drastically increase turnout to the Fair for those who would not otherwise go
(particularly from Western, Grand Valley, Hope and the other colleges in the area). The
Fair’s logo already says, “Your Ride Into the Future,” ACATS will make it true and help
usher the Fair successfully into the 21st century.
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Appendices:
Appendix A: How a Pothole Forms
(I apologize for the watermarked lines: MDOT is very picky about who takes their graphics)
Appendix B: ‘Campaigning Requires Christian Conviction’

As I prepare to campaign, I've been thinking about what a Christian campaign looks like. This is
something we all need to be thinking about, especially with a primary on August 3rd. Now, with
the indirect help of Overisel Reformed's stellar Pastor Scott Lokers, I've reached some
conclusions I'd like to share with you.
Before beginning, I have to clear a few things up. To those of you concerned about the
"separation of church and state" (especially the one or two violent secular fanatics who read
this): we do have a separation of our churches and our governments, yes, but no such
separation exists between faith and politics. Second, conflict between Christians is not
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necessarily non-Christian. Fighting becomes non-Christian when it is not done constructively

and not done virtuous, God-glorifying solutions.
In the electoral pursuit of these solutions, Christian Candidates (CCs) must have the intellectual
humility to accept that our democracy and our God use conflict to find better ideas for the
People (Eph 4: 15-16). It is through popular sovereignty that we see our Sovereign (Col 2:18-19).
Therefore, a CC must have the humility and honor to propose ideas to voters and, then, focus
on contrasting their ideas' predictable risks, rewards, and secondary effects with those of their
opponents (Prov 18:12-13; James 1:19-20, 5:16). It goes both ways as well: CCs have to keep
their egos small enough to accept that their proposals will always have flaws (Gen 4:12) and
that acting in a positive way on these flaws (fixing or scrapping them) can and will restore all of
us toward Jesus Christ (Rom 2:1-4, 14:3; Gal 5:22-25; Col 3:13-15). It points to a profound
commitment of non-partisanship in thought: CCs are men and women who have ideas while
they themselves are owned by Jesus, and loyal to Him only (Phil 2:7-8). A CC has to prayerfully
analyze each and every piece of policy for themselves and not automatically side with their
party or a certain interest group (1 Thess 2:2-3; James 1:19-20; Gal 5:23; Rom 15:1-6; Prov
18:13; Mt 10:16).
In actually running a campaign to communicate ideas, CCs must discipline those who work for
them to adhere to the correct principles. Toward the opponent, Christian campaigns are
respectful, truthful, non-judgmental and have an open dialog about the virtues of those running
(Rom 14, 15:1-6; Phil 4:5; Col 3:13-15). False or half-truthful disparaging remarks made for
quick political gain are forbidden in Christian tradition (Phil 2:1-11; Acts 15; Gal 6:1-6). All
Christians are sheep among wolves: we have to conduct ourselves a positive, inclusive manner
free of the fleshy negativity of our politics today (1 Cor 6:1-6; Rom 2:1-4). Like all of us, CCs
have to stay focused on glorifying Him in thought, act, and life if He is to bless their works (Isa
37: 34-35). We Christians are just like the donkey that carried Jesus into Jerusalem: it might
look to us like we're getting a lot of attention, but that praise is really for the One we lift up!
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Appendix C: Off-farm Work and Expansion Potential With New Ag Tech
The Option of Off-Farm and Operation Expansion Work among Agricultural Occupations
Constant Labor Crops Peak Labor Crops

Key:
(Rice – shown here) (Wheat, corn, soybeans)
1 2 6 3 1 – Plant
Labor Intensity
6 1 3
2 – Transplant
3 – Harvest
6
4 – Receive (Livestock)
Time 5 – Sale/Slaughter
Independent Livestock Commercial Livestock 6 – Growth
(Less Technology) (More Technology) Ceiling for average ability to
5 5 divide attention/work
(Typical
6
4 4 The gap between the Growth (6)

6
periods and the horizontal axis shrinks
relative to the highest demands (1,2 &
3) with better technology.
Appendix D: In-Depth Explanation of the Wave

The Wave.
BLAM
Action
A Reality Discontinuity New Reality Emerges

(Pre-Agriculture World) (A Genius Plants a Seed) (Agricultural World)
A stable reality with Willed or Unwilled, an action Despite attempts to put the Old back
definable characteristics. shatters the Old Reality. together, a New inevitably appears.
Problem: Big winners here… …are at risk here… …and dead here if they don’t adapt.
(The West today) (from China, India) (52% unemployed in Detroit)
Imagine an ice cube: it’s frozen, it melts, and refreezes in a different shape. That’s what happens
with the ‘wave.’ People, however, have been resistant to change: we, today, have a bunch of old,
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professorial models that no longer work. For instance, back in Greece 2,300 years ago, politicians and
bureaucrats memorized the entire society. That’s why they practiced oratory and memorization in
school. Forced memorization has made little sense after the invention of movable type and makes even
less sense now with the advent of the Internet, but didnt you memorize the Gettysburg Address in
school? What about passages from Hamlet? People will resist change to a point of absurdity.
Examples of Progress Reality Discontinuity New Reality

Book of Genesis Abel is a herdsman, Cain a Cain kills Abel = farming Cain lives = Agricultural
~1200BC farmer ends nomadic way of life world
Modernizing Japan Feudal Shogunate meets Japanese rebel against bad Feudal (Ag) world is
1868- 1912: Meiji Era Industrial Europe govt weak against the destroyed, replaced by
West (willingly transform) industrial, modern Japan
Information Revolution Tool and Die workers Computerized numerical What do you think?
design and build parts and control systems and
prototypes automation introduced
Examples of Regress Progression Backwards Action Success?

Mongolian Empire Agriculture taking over, Kahns slaughtered 10-13% Very successful from
Mongol tribes are of the world population 1200-1300: China (most
nomadic and are at risk (40-50mil dead in Eurasia). advanced society
from urbanization Many more died b/c of conquered) dropped from
lack of agriculture 60mil to 10mil population.
Japanese Samurai Japan is modernizing Men that had trained all Not at all. 40,000 Satsuma
Rebellions rapidly, samurai who had their lives rebel against soldiers outnumbered the
1874 Saga Rebellion; 1876 helped the revolution are Meiji govt: all of them 34,000 Imperial
Shimpuren, Akizuki, and now opposed crushed by peasents with army/police force, but
Hagi; 1877 Satsuma. guns. completely crushed.
Steering Wheels The ‘1 WHEEL/2 PEDALS/1 The government doesn’t Very – though Japan may
SHIFTER’ idea from the allow new types of car open the market to better
1890s controls cars today controls to be introduced systems soon
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Challenge 2: Building Over Falling Home Prices ................................................... 10

Challenge 3: Fixing Our Government and Making It Serve Us Better ................... 13

Challenge 4: Coming Together in a Fragmenting Culture ..................................... 19

Challenge 5: Growing with Agriculture in the 21st Century .................................. 22

Challenge 6: Overcoming Our Spread-out Population.......................................... 27

Challenge 7: Advancing Past Technological Challenges – ..................................... 29

 We are in a discontinuity between two realities. The ‘discontinuity’ is the center

Thanks again and good luck!

Challenge 1: Beating a Horrible Business Climate

Throughout much of the Western world (outside of Texas), there seems to be a

 Prepare the Infrastructure: Chattanooga is in a business-friendly state and it may be 18

A comprehensive work-study system infuses schools with an awareness of what

Challenge 2: Building Over Falling Home Prices

Home Value Trends

What people More secure in

Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 Stage 5 Stage 6

 Complex cutting: So-called ‘Complex cutting’ involves consolidation, maximizing

Challenge 3: Fixing Our Government and Making It Serve Us Better

Reopen: A basic tenet of a healthy

 Involve the Townships, Cities, and Special Districts: if we connect commissioners to 55

 Commission Audit/Investigation Model: Good government x

 Consolidation and Cuts: Duplicated functions and administrative structures are

 Activity-based budgeting: Right now we have a ‘line-item’ budget. Former

 First, we make demands of our government. Solving problems to make government

 Third, we keep making the demand.

 Fourth, we bring the debate to them.

 Fifth, we bring our case to those not involved.

Challenge 4: Coming Together in a Fragmenting Culture

I was, once, a ‘transplant’ to Hamilton. I was

Compare my willed transformation with the experiences of the rest of my family: my 81

The second dimension to society as we know it is the improved information technology

 Living Up to Our Own Rule Book

 English as a Second Language

Challenge 5: Growing with Agriculture in the 21st Century

Livestock/Animal Products Challenges

Emergency Management Challenges

Challenge 6: Overcoming Our Spread-out Population

 Allegan’s population is about 112,000; Kent’s is 574,000.

 Including the Road Commission budgets, Allegan’s county government spends

"Sedentary" Costs Allegan Kent Allegan % Kent %

† Allegan: Info Services, Network Systems, Telephone, etc.

 Decentralize/efficiently mobilize government: If we put together a cheap population

Challenge 7: Advancing Past Technological Challenges

Without a culture of passing technological improvements onto others, cities today

The investment needed to create that medium is minimal: thousands of 154

Appendix B: ‘Campaigning Requires Christian Conviction’

necessarily non-Christian. Fighting becomes non-Christian when it is not done constructively

Appendix C: Off-farm Work and Expansion Potential With New Ag Tech

Constant Labor Crops Peak Labor Crops

4 4 The gap between the Growth (6)

Appendix D: In-Depth Explanation of the Wave

A Reality Discontinuity New Reality Emerges

Examples of Progress Reality Discontinuity New Reality

Examples of Regress Progression Backwards Action Success?

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