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America was founded on the principal of cheap, even free land, efficiently and quickly cut up into sections. This systematic subdivision of America created massive fortunes which in turn purchased more of America to carve into ever smaller pieces. The development game was to buy big, buy cheap, subdivide, carve up and spin for what the market would bear.

The subdivision is a long tested and proven formula that has worked flawlessly, almost, machine like, creating mega-rich individuals over the years. It was often almost impossible to fail if you followed the formula of Need and Greed. America needed room to grow and greed made it easy to do so.

Every American deserved the American Dream of a home on a lot and most got their wish. Commercial development followed naturally to service all the new roof tops so people wouldn't have to drive back into the City. Again, a simple formula: commercial development either followed or seeded roof tops.

In those heady days, few understood the danger of S.A.D.D. and the disease carrier, "Formulaic Greed". Developers, too often unwittingly, carried S.A.D.D. into the countryside and like most monkeys, copied the formula of the other monkey who already had his banana.

Indicators of S.A.D.D. sprang up loudly in 1929 then quietly incubated as America grew exponentially with the car. Cheap and big land, accessed by mass produced cheap automobiles, powered by cheap gasoline, was easier than ever to get to and gobble up. Other warning signs occurred about ever 20 years with major outbreaks every 40 years. The next expected outbreak is 2009 and it may prove a pandemic.

Suburban sprawl was as natural a phenomenon as Red Tide, expanding outwards into the raw material of food. Suburbia, like Red Tide, eats off the land and too often leaves behind broken eco-systems, unsustainable over time.

The old formulas don't work anymore. The reasons are many but all explainable. The cure for S.A.D.D. both in residential and commercial development, which are forever indelibly connected, is a higher mathematics. It is a flexible and Living Formula.

To this we must speak. There are still fortunes, meaningful ones, to be made.

Call us at 830-798-9310 to sign up for the two day Famine or Feast, YOU Choose seminar, to be held September 19th and 20th, at the American Small Business Institute next to the Wizard Academy campus in Buda, Texas.

Marley Porter