Why are Small Towns SLOWLY DYING?

Small communities in the US are dying, while Jeff Bezos became the richest person in the world and Walmart posted a $500 Billion profit in 2023.
These things are related and in this video I cover the reasons that small communities are dying and how to save them.

[@paulhuval]

You must have upset youtube there they had to put context on your video, lol. You are right. Trinity, more people need to buy local in their communities.

[@davidrife6191]

Always happens when you’re over the target of truth.

[@geedee2420]

Rebuild your LOCAL GOVERNMENT from the very lowest levels first and then work your way up from there... Collaboration with others who share your values is key.

[@Soaring_Raven212]

I'm sorry. I am NOT buying local. They all put a 100% mark up on their food and merchandise.

[@deeh6457]

@@Soaring_Raven212 well then raven you shall eat da 🐛 bugs 🐞

[@lauriemclean1131]

Thank you so much for your efforts. Another way to help farmers in your own community is to buy what you can from your local farmers' markets. People might be amazed at the variety of locally-made goods they can buy at a farmers' market.

[@sawsurgeon]

Hear, Hear! You’re spot on with this chat. Small towns were at one point nearly self sufficient. They made virtually everything they needed. From clothes to food and beyond, it was all available from a local source. Thank you Trinity for shining a light on such an important topic! Bless’ns, Tedd

[@zapatafa]

Indeed. Let's build back these nearly self sufficient communities.

[@Daniel-_-.]

Trinity, this video hit everything I believe on how things are currently being done and how we need to get back to small communities. Thanks for getting all of this information out of my head and onto a well thought out video. Keep doing a great job!

[@honeybadger5933]

Are you aware of the two men performing pregnancy ultra sounds on cows for Amish community that were jailed for 30 days for "practicing Veterinary medicine without a license"? Lancaster and York counties, Pennsylvania. The professional managerial class is so disconnected from small town life. Insane.

[@geedee2420]

Always vote in your local elections... Choose only good freedom loving American Patriots who share your values when voting.

[@01Lenda]

​@geedee2420 That and those, that stand up for local support of businesses and products.

[@deeh6457]

These two are fortunate to have Robert Barnes for an attorney!! This is a ridiculous case.

[@suzieparis6821]

That is not illegal unless they can prove you are charging money

[@Zt3v3]

@@geedee2420 The most important vote we make is for our local representation. It's not as easy to figure out who is who, but it's vastly more important than federal representation.

[@liamrooney5314]

This is the kind of information that needs to be repeated over and over again until both rural, urban, and suburban Americans realize that all their concerns and needs are compatible. What's good for rural America and its small communities benefits everyone, but the huge corporations don''t share our values. That's why big business contributes to candidates who feed the ridiculous culture wars that divide us (largely into rural vs. urban) which results in officials who serve those corporations rather than actually serve the communities they are supposed to represent.

[@minerjim1531]

Trinity, Many things That contributed to this also Include the taxation, government regulation being the Main contributor! We have been regulated out of existence!

[@LifeintheWest]

That definitely hurts small businesses for sure!

[@geedee2420]

Start rebuilding your local government... Always vote in your local elections .

[@tinoyb9294]

Nonsense.

[@geedee2420]

Do not let "Others" choose your Sheriff, Prosecutor, Judges, County Supervisors, Town Council Members, Mayor, Planning/Land Use Commission Members, Water Board Members, School Board Members and other LOCAL OFFICIALS for you. Collaborate with your family, friends, and neighbors and vote as a block in order to put good freedom loving American Patriots into your local government.

[@user-bb8tz2kq7y]

it starts with People going to their Township and County Meetings 💪💪💯

[@geedee2420]

Always vote in your LOCAL ELECTIONS... Don't let "Others" choose your Sheriff, Prosecutor, Judges, County Supervisors, Town Council Members, Mayor, Planning/Land Use Commission Members, Water Board Members, School Board Members and other LOCAL OFFICIALS for you. Collaborate with your family, friends, and neighbors and VOTE AS A BLOCK in order to put good freedom loving American Patriots into your LOCAL GOVERNMENT. We have got to rebuild our local governments from the very lowest levels first and then work our way up from there. Many local races are decided by just a handful of votes so make sure that your vote is counted among them.

[@micheleyates7941]

This is by far the BEST video on this subject. We purchased an old 33:35 farmhouse in a county with more cattle than people. We like to patronize the local hardware store. The owner told us that most of the locals will drive thirty minutes to the next town to buy from the nearest big box store instead of more locally, and he has a pretty good selection, too!

[@nealdenison]

Your throw away thought above Bill Gates and his ownership of ranch and farmland was the jewel of this conversation.

[@nevinkuser9892]

Bill Gates is too old to farm anything.

[@joey_the_farmdawg]

Great info Trinity! Appreciate your activism and totally agree! We also need to keep our politicians grass root and not keep (or vote in) all these wealthy newbies that are trying to use our state to get into the DC swamp!

[@geedee2420]

Always vote in your local elections... Hold your local politicians accountable.

[@fljetgator1833]

This is spot on Trinity, sir! 🎯 A very interesting & accurate video. It'd be great if EVERY single person who shops big box stores, internet purchases & so on would watch (& listen) to this & your other videos. We've got over 100 years in ag & what's left has been attacked by agribusiness, EPA ect for a few decades. It's crazy what bureaucrats (those working FOR these agencies) do without realizing their own part in destroying 'others' families in our great United States! Great presentation sir. Mark

[@PeterSantenello]

Very interesting video. Thanks Trinity!

[@LifeintheWest]

Thank you Peter. You are very kind.

[@fljetgator1833]

Hi Peter .. you're originally from dairy country. I'm sure you already know that the EPA, USDA, giant 'agribusiness' corporations & ect have been destroying the family farms & ranches everywhere for a few decades. It's only gotten worse over the past several years. BTW, you also have a very interesting channel. I've been sub'd. Thanks, Mark/ Florida and Texas

[@angietracy3046]

Toss the Yeti and get Grizzly. They are completely made in USA

[@LifeintheWest]

Good idea.

[@dagwood1327]

I just checked their website and it says they are imported. Didn’t say where.

[@markthomas4083]

Angie, common trick by these companies. Start in USA, then the CFO generates a plan that involves a higher profit margin when outsourcing to a foreign country. Happens way to often.

[@joshhooker5873]

It's like Atlas Shrugged meets 1984. Great Video.

[@snoverstudios123]

I wonder how many people, even on here, know the messages of those books?

[@verisimilitudo1]

These people get so blinded by dollars that they don't see or care about the destruction around them. The Bible is a good book that speaks on these matters as well. Nothing new under the sun.

[@agwhoneedsaphd2643]

Keep preaching!

[@joelbingham6754]

Keep up the good work my friend it's about time somebody brings this stuff to the light

[@hamijoh]

If you are ever coming through Sheridan, MT please stop in at Alder Creek Coffee. Would love to shake your hand and buy you a cup. I don’t want to make this an add but my people are your people. The best customers smell like cattle! Keep up the wonderful work you are doing.

[@GGMASherry]

The problem is that when you find a rancher who sells their products directly to the consumer, the price is so high that most consumers can’t afford it. I personally would buy exclusively from them if I could. I’m disabled and live on a very strict budget for food. A single order of a month worth of protein is my entire budget for 3 months for food!

[@CherHouston]

OMG, I feel you there!💃

[@stefanielozinski]

This is the huge part of it that I think a lot of the suggestions to buy local miss. The economy is terrible. It’s a vicious cycle! Many of us are already struggling to pay even the artificially low prices for foreign food and consumer goods. I think we need to see less regulation, protective policies, and higher wages before most people will really buy local in large enough numbers for it to shift things in the market for the better. It’s not a simple situation for sure.

[@lyndamorgan9318]

Your videos are hitting home with me, I'm on a carnivore/ketovore diet for health reasons as are some of my family members, so healthy meat and food in general and where they come from and how to keep an overreaching government from controlling these things have become even more important to me. I'm listening to you and others, some I found through your channel and I'm learning and I'm sharing your video's and more. Thank you and Bless you

[@3dogsdigging94]

❤I always make a point to buy small as much as possible!! I use something called “cow pots” to grow my vegetables and flowers in, 100% cow manure!! Best product ever! Thanks Trinity! I pray more people will see this and understand how important a small town is!❤

[@tinalaursen8993]

I live in BC. I wanted to give my daughter who was expecting at that time our fresh eggs. The doctor from that bloated health care system we have said no because they might have salmonella. I guess Walmart's eggs were better. And apparently safer. Yah, our problems go far beyond agriculture. 🤨

[@pottersground3788]

Hear, hear.

[@joshlucas9020]

You did a great job tying this all together, thank you for presenting this yo people. I've been breaking away from the commodity cattle system for close to a decade, it is truly a world full of rabbit trails. You learn fast if you pull on one thing, you pull on everything. It truly is a holistic system from soil health, to livestock health, to human health, to economic health of rural communities. Great video

[@jdp0359]

Another great video Trinity!

[@duanelappe9767]

Mornin And thank you

[@full5rounds449]

I grew up in a rural area and we tried to shop local but over time the prices of bigger ticket items (e.g. furniture) ended up being 50%-100% more than "in the city". Local shops of all types only worked "banker hours" while the farmers worked their butts off trying to survive. In summer we wouldn't have time to shop until sundown and everything was closed locally so we would have to drive an hour or more to larger centers that better served their customers. All those local shops died decades ago and blamed their customers but it really didn't impact the locals much at all.

[@robertcook9264]

Thats where our town is now. If only theyd stay open late one day a week and saturdays. My daughter wants to show off her hometown to her city friends, but everything is closed! When I was a kid, all the stores were open til 9 on thursdays, and closed on Sundays. The rest of the days were open from 9 or 10 til 5 or 6. Its pretty frustrating.

[@poisonPpaully]

At first I watched your stuff because it was interesting and good American country boy content but now I’m so glad I’ve kept up with you because you’re a voice for good and what the less informed need to hear You are doing great work spreading this information to the masses Thank you Trinity

[@WaltonGoggins-fb1xz]

Trinity I believe you have found your calling, very descriptive, clear, to the point and the hard truth about the demise of small town America. Absolutely hitting the nail on what’s been going on..! Keep at it! Excellent..! WSG,Sr. aka Sandy

[@bryanfox2735]

My local butcher/animal raiser has NO PROBLEM keeping the shelf’s stocked!

[@mikeroll145]

I use to haul calves from mt to the feedlots in the Midwest, asked a cattle buyer why a packing plant can't open in mt again, he said the packers are so big they can give free meat away till the little guy was broke, that was 30 years ago

[@gilmanbeito3130]

The problem with our small towns in Montana is that all the locals with any property holdings started really breaking up their ranch and hay ground for all the Californians,Oregon, and Washington people that still work remotely in their former states..the locals hiked all the property prices because people would buy it and now they curse the county and state because their property taxes have all gone up.

[@RastamanLiveUp]

You’re correct in much you say. But you forget that the majority of the shareholders for these corporations are town, municipal, county and state workers via their pensions. Then we have everyone else who has mutual funds, annuities or any “paper” investment.

[@rickreese5794]

Big business And Big Government Collude 🤔🤷🏿‍♂️🙈

[@Soaring_Raven212]

We buy from these rich money hungry places because our small town businesses are even more money hungry. My local grocery store puts an almost 100% mark up on everything. A can of Viennas costs almost 2 dollars and a single steak costs 30 dollars.

[@robertcook9264]

We live in a pretty place that gets a fair amount of tourism. We call this tourist pricing. Years ago there was a card you could buy for about 30 bucks every year that would give you a discount or a bogo from many stores. The credit unions and local charity groups would sell these cards, so tourists had no idea about it.

[@Cervin_Suisse]

@@robertcook9264 Tourist pricing should be illegal as far as I'm concerned. In which way is that different from what the big corporations in question are doing ? It's ripping the consumer off, period.

[@BethGrantDeRoos]

No one seemed to complain when it was the USA pushing their products outside the USA for decades, and Americans were the top dog. Am thinking back when traveling to other countries pre 1980 and all the American made items for sell in stores. Heck Coca Cola was the #1 product one would see in even small towns in third world countries. Then Nixon open China up to American corporations and Congress started encouraging American companies to set up production in China. Fact is IF we take the time, we can buy meat, eggs, fruits, vegetables from local sources within a 50 mile radius. Yes, we pay a bit more, but the money stays local. This is why we love ♥ our local farmers markets where ALL the fruits, vegetables, breads are local. Have attended local craft shows where amazing wool garments are sold, and overheard people say they can get similar items for less at Walmart. Which is a lie. Quality costs a bit more.

[@verisimilitudo1]

Price vs. cost argument. Pay less now costs you more in the long run. But buyer beware, there are charlatans. Such education as Trinity offers helps to inform the consumer.

[@fantasticfamily5004]

I totally agree with what you’re saying and when I’ve spoken to my neighbors on on different platforms here where I live in Southern California, they think I’m crazy. I’ve explained to them by the time we get notification of the meats and foods that have listeria and other illnesses and we wonder why we’re dying from cancer well look at the food that we’re eating and putting. Into our bodies. Look at all the Medication’s people are taking ! one unfortunate not taking anything. my life has to be different for me. Hope I’m able to be part of this movement and your group. Thank you so much.

[@oletimer5853]

Truly enjoy your videos and your cowboy wisdom !!! Thanks brother

[@saddlebear]

I try to buy locally. But the prices at my local hardware are over 2x higher than Amazon and I get my stuff delivered. Example: 25-feet of Romex is $47 at my Ace Hardware and $19 at Amazon. My local lumberyard does have competitive prices and I buy from them.

[@snoverstudios123]

Also, the USA has the most laws and regulations in the world, add that to cronyism with big corporations and the little guy gets stomped down and out. I support the local family farmers, ranchers, businesses to the best of my ability.

[@geedee2420]

Agreed... I'm the Patriarch of a large voting Hispanic family and we always collaborate with one another and vote as a block in our local elections in order to put good freedom loving American Patriots into our local government. We buy from local ranchers and other local mom and pop businesses as much as possible.

[@jdp0359]

Unfortunately our legal system recognizes a monopoly as 1 company controlling an industry. They will never recognize 4 meat packers as a monopoly. I'm not saying I agree with that but it seems to be the way it is.

[@scottbalbas7752]

Youre ABSOLUTELY CORRECT Trinity!!! The only quality to big business is in their black and red bottom line!!

[@nonsi3819]

Good video Mister Trinity. I am from Spain, in Europe, I follow several ranchers in Spain who have a KZbin channel and also many from different parts of the United States. The rural is dying. The products are not paid even to offset production costs. An example: the sheep shearing season started here, do you know how much a kilogram of Merino wool is paid? Five cents on the American dollar. It is more profitable for people to use it as manure than to sell it. From the other side of the Atlantic Ocean I wish you good luck, we also need it on this side. God bless your family.

[@danjenkins9427]

Thanks for being such a clear voice in these issues.

[@hamouabdoune2673]

Good morning trinity.

[@shaunnapierce8580]

I always like your thoughtful comments and largely agree with you. I now live in the Mid-West and many small farmers raise black×dairy calves. There are huge numbers of these calves entering the food chain. They are never going to be in a cow-calf situation: the cows are for milk products, of course. After attaining the weight of 4-500 lb are they taken to a feedlot situation or do they background on grass somewhere until they attain a bigger weight? For that matter, do most of the weaned calves from ranch cow-calf pairs go on grass somewhere until they hit feedlot weight? I actually think the calf barn people I know do an excellent job. Sadly to say, not all beef can come from cow-calf pairs on grass.

[@rogerpeter6859]

I'm from northwest Mo there is nothing left in the downtown areas of any small town around here.

[@steveneifingofficial]

This is a great video Trinity!

[@zapatafa]

Great job Trinity. Looking forward to more. :-)

[@lindayaya59]

😊very good video. Hope you put it out to many platforms. One of your best😊

[@juliepipkins4227]

Once again you have hit the mark, ty so much...keep talking, keep sharing, because every day the take over is gaining ground.

[@nealdenison]

Thanks!

[@Gossamer314]

Trinity this sounds like the packers have a traceability issue. If they can’t track contaminated burger they don’t need ear tags for it because the E. coli didn’t come from the rancher it happened in the packing process.

[@equinluv1646]

Well said! 👏

[@alwaysbeyourself9328]

Just signed up as a member on LifeInTheWest and am looking forward to finding listings for local regenerative/natural beef ranches. I can find one or two at our local farmer's market during the summer but I'd sure love to buy meat year round, if possible. That info about Bill Gates is shockingly sad, but I always knew he wasn't buying the property to help anyone but himself.

[@crazymountain777]

Here in White Sulphur Springs we have a meat shop that butchers local beef. It’s sold in the 2 stores here from local ranchers. The hardware is a local family operation. The restaurant owners all live here. The best logger in the state works out of here. Let’s hope it stays that way for a long time!

[@graylobo133]

YES, but you are avoiding the number one problem....prices from local meats are so high, they aren't affordable.

[@LifeintheWest]

That is a valid point that needs to be discussed. US ranchers will never be able to compete with beef from Brazil or Uraguay as the cost to produce are just so much less in those countries. So competition on price alone means US loses and we might as well build houses or cover our land with solar panels. I think there are other considerations that need to be discussed. At the same time, we must also discuss the person who cannot afford top quality meat in their current budget.

[@graylobo133]

@LifeintheWest And the one who make those big companies bigger is the lower middle class. But I hear your point. I am a socal guy, but drove all over Montana in the early 2000's. Love that place. Been a huge fun of your videos, since u did the yellowstone brake down, while making coffee next to your truck, classic. I now share your videos, specially the ones with your black horse ...can't remember his name, with my 5 year old. KEEP ON EDUCATING!

[@mj.adame88]

Great video.

[@peterneilsen6249]

Hi Trinity. Well said my friend. i live Au. down under , .the same big companies own most of our big meat suppliers here ,and thy sell to our Woolworths aad Coles store's .we the same don't get any local suppliers .Great job Trinity. keep up the great work .😃😇

[@Punjabi_singh]

Spot on. Raise the awareness

[@a4000t]

Most people will trip over themselves to sell themselves down the river for convenience. When cheap is the only criteria you rarely get anything good.

[@jnzkngs]

I live in rural Iowa and my corner lot has corn on the other two sides. The only reason there is any more going on in Iowa than there would be in an equal sized chunk of North Dakota is because 100 years ago when farming became mechanized every quarter mile down every dirt track in the state had a house packed full of kids who were trained to work as soon as they could carry a bucket of water or fight off laying hens. Around that time organized labor was becoming an issue in other parts of the country so a lot of manufacturers moved here to utilize this large high-quality workforce and provided decent paying jobs to a few generations of Iowans. But that was 100 years ago, and that workforce is gone. Now we have virtual full-time bus services going south to Texas to haul immigrants back here to try and compensate for the number of people we don't have anymore. Sure there are communities that are growing, but they are all basically suburbs of the larger cities that city workers are moving to in order to avoid crime. As farms get bigger and require fewer people to operate, the need for small communities is going away and we have to figure out a way to create small town hospice programs. We need to be spending more money on elder care for the people who can't leave and less on splash pads and bike trails to try to attract people who don't really want to live here. On the county level we need to stop trying to out-compete our neighbors like courthouse services will be consolidated to our newer bigger courthouse regardless if the next county over has a lot bigger population. We also need to stop giving tax abatements to employers to get them to move here. If you cannot run a profitable enough business here without tax abatements, you shouldn't be doing business here. If it's not worth building a new house here without a tax abatement, it's not worth building a new house here. I love where I live, but it's no different than living in a mining town where the mine is drying up.

[@deeh6457]

Of course it’s not better for us! This happened in the small town in SOUTHERN IL-way south of Chicago 🙄Walmart came in and over the next 5-10 yrs the town declined. Over the next 40 yrs it has declined and is just starting to be a bit better. What’s gone the orchards w all of the fruit, less of a choice of homegrown vegetables small farms are dying or dead. Very sad. What happened to think locally? Or was it grow locally and think globally?

[@steffybael1245]

TRINITY, i live in Lake County, South Dakota. the ranchers around my area EACH own thousands of acres of land.i own an acreage that is 700 foot from a cattle feed lot. im a 65 years man who went to college and took agriculture classes in college between 2009 and 2015, I NEVER GRADUATED ALTHOUGH I WAS AN "A STUDENT" BECAUSE I NEVER WANTED THAT PIECE OF PAPER BECAUSE I NEVER WANTED TO BE "EMPLOYED" ! SO these ranchers are PROFIT MOTIVATED! THE SMALL FEED LOTS HAVE CATTLE IN MUD AND MANURE AT LEAST KNEE DEEP. I SAW A DEAD STEER JUST LAYING IN THE SAME PEN WITH AT LEAST 50 OTHER STEERS FOR AN ENTIRE WEEK!!! YES, IT TOOK AN ENTIRE WEEK FOR THE "RANCHER" TO DRAG THAT STEER OUT OF THAT PEN!!! I EVEN CALLED MY NEIGHBOR TO TELL HIM ABOUT THE DEAD STEER. I EVEN TOLD THIS SAME RANCHER "NO" WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO HIRE ME TO DRIVE A TRUCK DURING HARVEST TO HIRE THE CORN FROM HIS FIELD TO HIS SILO. IM TOTALLY AGAINST THE METHODS USED THESE DAYS, AND IM SELLING MY PROPERTY HERE BECAUSE OF THE CHEMICALS IM BEING EXPOSED TO BY MY NEIGHBORS! IN FACT, IM NOW LIVING IN "TOWN". ITS MADISON, S.D. where i REFUSE to BUY LOCAL. the town counsel has a LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENT WITH A PRIVATE COMPANY, TO GIVE THEM AT LEAST $100,000 A YEAR OF THE TOWNS SALES TAXES. this company builds houses at their FACTORY to be moved to other counties etc... this company does NOT pay sales tax on the materials they use, and they do NOT even buy the materials locally. our streets and roads in this small city/town and the entire county are horrible, and they give sales tax revenue to this company so they can expand and hire more employees. THE OWNER OF THIS COMPANY IS LOCAL/FROM THIS COMMUNITY THOUGH. ITS THE GOOD OLE "I WENT TO SCHOOL WITH BUBBA" POLITICS! THAT IS EXACTLY WHY I WOULD RATHER DRIVE 50 MILES TO SIOUX FALLS, AND SPEND MY MONEY AT "WALMART" THAN TO SPEND IT LOCALLY WHERE ITS THE SAME CHINESE MADE CRAP AT A MUCH HIGHER COST! I EVEN BUY MY E85 FUEL IN ANOTHER COUNTY!!! i only bought my land here to use as a staging point for our move to MONTANA, but a STAPH A INFECTION took out my health and just 1 hospital bill was for more than 1 MILLION DOLLARS so i GAVE AWAY my MONTANA LAND AS I HAD NO INSURANCE!! so we will be heading back to the OZARK MOUNTAINS!

[@brittjohnson-hb3ch]

Which would you rather Be? Efficiency = doing stuff right Effective = Doing the Right Stuff Right

[@fantasticfamily5004]

In our little town of Hemet California. and we’re supporting our local commerce. In 2023 businesses mom and pop stores no more big stores.

[@maryfries2147]

One problem u folks have is ur state is so messed up i wont even go there because not going to be regulateed to do anything i want to do.Its sad would love to see the redwoods but not giving to a communist state.

[@robertcook9264]

Hemet is tiny. A town near me ,Calistoga, has an ordinance that no chain stores, or any business that has more than 3 venues are allowed in town. Its beautiful to see so many unique shops and restaurants.

[@fantasticfamily5004]

I agree my in-laws before they passed. Had a home up in Clear Lake Oaks and we used to go through that town and we would load up on everything that was sold in the town to bring home. Absolutely loved everything that was made there meet cheeses, olives. And the bread. It was actually a treat for us when we went into town because we knew we were going to get the best of the best

[@davidrife6191]

Ya know, when a common person , try’s to do the same things a corporation dose, a corporation will actually start using bureaucratic organizations to take out the competition.

[@davidrife6191]

The other great thing you talked about, buying local. People will not believe the difference in the taste of the meat. The meat is cured properly and the flavor is so much richer. It’s more cost up front, but over the year you’ll reap the savings. It does pay to purchase locally.

[@tinoyb9294]

Monopolies are against the law? Those laws and regulations are killing us!

[@highcountrystories]

I remember when our Maxwells clothing store (owned by a local family the Maxwells) finally went out of business in the 90s our last local owned and operated store. We had lost our grocery store long before to Safeway and Kmart. In the 70s. Now we are slowly losing our restaurants. Oh and hardware stores long gone before that.. Also that's why you need to be a part of the city board especially if your a business owner. And don't let big businesses come in!!

[@ralphy12345]

West Virginia is a great example illustrating the devastating effects of large corps owning and controlling a local economy. In WVA large corporations mined the coal, cut the timber and the coal, timber and money all went north. The people of WVA essentially became renters because very little money from all these industries stayed local.

[@CherHouston]

Greeting Trinity, I tried navigating your web page, but it is extremely confusing for me. It won't let me go further in my "Bio,' until I upload a pic. well I am old & the most techy I get is my old flip phone, so I don't know how to complete this. Just wanted to thank you for your no nonsense, straight forward being. Blessed be to all here & around the world. Cher (the old Bear) Houston

[@delmanicke9228]

We just got back from traveling for 2 weeks, and we had to eat out on the road a lot, and I swear the food we were eating was slowly killing us, a person could hardly tell the food tasted different Hugh food chains and the food just didnt really very much, and it cost us a Fortune. We just kinda stopped eating maybe just once a day there was no home cooking outlets or were hard to find or could not get into, to eat.The good places to eat were $45 to $65 a plate and you could tell the food was massed produced or low on flavor, or so spiced up it didn't really matter what you were eating. I'm glad to be home. Thanks good video. Was just reading a profolio on Wal-Mart. You're right, their proficiency is all internalized to the tune of $ 50 billion here and their internal human resources, P&L statements. Other than what they pay people the rest is flowing out of the communities and not staying in the banks. Which is where the small business work from for growth..

[@palerider660]

I own a small 720 acre farm/ranch in Northern New Mexico. We run a few dozen cattle as well as sheep, goats and chickens. There ain’t any profit anymore. It’s more of a hobby now. If I hadn’t built a successful plumbing, HVAC and electrical service business over the last 40 years we’d be broke by now.

[@CherHouston]

Sad, but true

[@kallasusort2986]

I am trying to sign onto Life in the West site to join. It is Sunday ... maybe not working or overloaded I am not able to get the code to sign up. I love your what your doing - fabulous plan.

[@susancuenin2137]

Exactly how does a global company make us believe it’s better for the planet to truck in, ship in food from South American than to buy locally grown and processed?

[@suzieparis6821]

How did it even happen n consume America.. unreal

[@scottbalbas7752]

Also..... BEEF .....ITZ WHATZ FOR DINNER!!!😅😅

[@chrissteiger4199]

Yeah if the WEF has their way we will be on a incect diet!

[@aaronvargas1356]

We need to support our local businesses and communities God bless America 🇺🇸

[@barbarasummers280]

This started in the 80's my parents had to buy in bulk for their music store or they would not be sold to, which was a big stretch for my parents, as a mom and pop music store, also, they were unable to sell the store, as the lease was going to triple net, which also is an investor problem as well...investors decided they had to make more money, which actually they shot themselves in the foot, but due to tax issues, they were able to say, we lost on this one, and get a break on their taxes, or they would just get another person that didn't know what a decent lease should be, and so it goes, on and on....and of course, only the big corporates could afford it, so that is what became the main players.

[@user-th5ft8ot4v]

Thank you for your time and effort. I love how your content stays neutral on the political spectrum.

[@scootter37]

Trinty, You are spot on, on everything! Well said. Voting with one's wallet carries the strongest power. In mass it will cause change. Just ask budlight....they experienced this first hand.

[@lifted_above]

Currency is devaluing, constantly. Everything else is a domino effect. Trouble is, Americans are almost completely held ignorant how this is happening.

[@myhappygecko2895]

I order my beef from little creek. It’s dry aged and am American company. We don’t get all our meat from them but it is now the majority and it tastes soooo good.

[@user-yt4oy9kp5w]

Ok can hear you

[@cecilbrownfield2740]

Originally from north Florida where agriculture once flourished. Now the most of the dairies are no longer in existence due to gov regulations and taxes. Many of the farms are now subdivisions and solar fields. The chicken houses are ran by one company all the farmers have to contract with. It's truly a mess nationwide. The orange crops are all but gone due to growth.

[@undercover5596]

Sir I know this is totally off topic, but where do you by those snap front shirts like you are wearing in this video? Is it flannel? Thanks. This video topic was great. Very eye opening.

[@garywesthoven1745]

Almost any store in Montana will carry the western shirts, from mom and pop to Walmart.

[@MaxRunia]

The government is supposed to prevent monopolies. But in reality they facilitate them all too often.

[@Cervin_Suisse]

Corruption infests all governments, not only those of third world or developing countries. It is just much smartly hidden.

[@mixingjd]

I think that you missed a large contributing factor. 60 years ago 1 in 3 labor workers in the U.S. were union. The 1980’s was the beginning of a large anti union propaganda campaign by corporations, the wealthy and then president Regan. The propaganda machine really ramped up in the 1990’s with the advent of “reality TV shows” which glorifies individual competition over unity. By 2020 only 1 in 10 labor workers were union. A labor union is not some foreign entity. It is everyone that works the same type of job standing together to negotiate as one. Corporations have at the same time as creating an anti union culture, have created a nonnegotiable price culture. When I was a kid I remember my father negotiating with people for everything. Now even when I list something used for sale on Facebook marketplace only 1% of people will bid a lower price to get negotiations started. And then I saw someone else make my next point in the comments. The corporations use part of their profits to hire political lobbyists who get regulations passed that favor the corporations and make it cost prohibitive for an individual to start doing business. Just take a trip to a Country in South East Asia like Thailand. There you will find many street markets and vendors. Fresh food sold on the street by individuals is plentiful. And it is reasonably priced. Contrast with the States where a kid cannot even set up a lemonade stand without someone reporting them for not having a business license and local operating permits & health inspections. What can this be compared with? Well, if you divide the workers so that you can pay whatever low price for wages that you dictate, while simultaneously eliminating a competitive pricing so you can set the price. Then you have created an imperial dictatorship. With the CEOs being the kings collecting the wealth. Unfortunately I don’t see a change coming anytime soon. Decades have passed as this has all been setup. Ultimately it will take decades to unwind and change it….😢

[@waggtech4883]

NAFTA was just the beginning and were a large portion of those jobs going outside. Too many manufacturing jobs are gone. Reagan started the ball rolling downhill.

[@keithbarnes7586]

We are losing ranch and farm land at an alarming rate. When the day comes we are no longer food and energy independent, we will be at the mercy of our enemies

[@ozarkrefugee]

My grandparents generation (the WWII generation,) used to support their communities and small towns, they firmly believed in keeping things local. If they could not get something in their town then they did not need it. I noticed a change with my parents generation - the baby boomer generation. Many acted like they were too good to spend money with local business so they went to bigger towns to shop. The sad thing is that they owned business's they inherited from their parents generation. They would complain about not having the amount of business they thought they should have, yet did not do business in their own town. They did not set the example nor practice what they preached. Many sold out after a few years and the towns went to crap, then drug addicts moved in from big cites out of state and have ruined everything. People had a good thing and did not think it was good enough or flashy enough, so they pissed it away. What a damned shame.

[@24Alisonall]

Love ya, Trinity, but where is that Yeti mug manufactured? Seriously, we are flooded with products that are largely produced outside of the US.

[@muddslide8829]

Is there a way for people to buy from the ranchers to help save there business.?

[@robertcook9264]

Sometimes. Look in local newspapers and ask around at farmers markets. Mostly they do not have a marketing budget, you have to find them. In my area, its difficult to find an independent meat processor and there is a pretty big wait list.

[@cathygauronski5354]

Yes, keeping it local is best for people, animals and the planet.

[@ilyauneroute8944]

It is happening everywhere all over the world, small locals shop or buisness are dying or already dead. This is a big devastating wave for the sake of profit. God bless you all ! "Bon courage !!"

[@onekerri1]

It is not "for the sake of profit." This is done world wide for the sake of taking down countries, especially the America. How can 'they' have a one world govt with the U.S. standing in its way? It is not about money.

[@Gossamer314]

Trinity a question on your skool ? As a producer Would I have to keep a freezer full of meat to sell or would I sell it by the whole half / quarter?

[@LifeintheWest]

I haven’t gotten that far yet. It is just a place where I can help people find local beef in their area. Logistics we will have to worry about if we have too many people buying beef. 😄

[@Gossamer314]

We live in Utah and currently sell a whole beef. Another thought is if you sell by the package here you have to have it inspected and stamped for sale.

[@Gossamer314]

Trinity I tried to sign up but it said a 404 error and would not work. Still interested in your plan.

[@Gossamer314]

Never mind I got it to work just waiting to be approved.

[@russelljames1811]

Like that yeti cup...where's that made...?

[@petethesquatchie]

Folks need to wake up and read the labels and do the homework! Sacrifice!

[@gussampson5029]

ESG is not a factor in this. Perhaps it will make the problems worse but these problems have been going on since at least the 80s but accelerated in the 90s and 00s. We knew all of this was happening. Every single one of us contributed to this by shopping at Walmart instead of shopping locally. There were endless news stories about how damaging Walmart was to small businesses and yet everyone said "Oh well I'm gonna go find the cheapest price." So everyone concerned now knew exactly the price that was being paid by allowing Walmart and others to monopolize the marketplace but they wanted the cheap prices and convenience and sacrificed the well-being of their communities and fellow Americans. Now that the monopolies are jacking up prices and destroying communities at an accelerated rate, people want to act like they care. But they didn't care in 2003 when all they wanted was the cheapest shit they could find. It's also one of the main reasons why nothing is made in this country anymore. The politicians are scumbags. The corporations and big businesses are scumbags. The bankers and lawyers and globalists are all scumbags too. Everyone knows all that already. But what you really should realize is that you're a scumbag too.

[@micheleyates7941]

What is the link to the school?

[@scottbalbas7752]

AMERICANS FIRST!!!

[@Cervin_Suisse]

Surely you meant to say people living in the USA right ? Immigrants are a big part of the U.S. economy. 😊

[@dudewheresmyhorse625]

Where was your Yeti made Trinity? :)