Our vision is simple.

Government needs to stop regulating our social lives, and start fixing the economy.

To this end, Wyoming's economy should focus on "jobs you keep having to do."

We want to prioritize the SEADs from which our future will grow and flourish.
 
SEADs: Stewardship, ​Energy, Agriculture, and Defense. 

Stewardship
Folks who live near mountains are inherently the most patriotic. Why? Because we have a tangible and majestic mountain to firmly identify as "home." That natural patriotism forms the core of many of us Wyomingites identities, and is part of why we're still such a bastion of tradition and pride in a world that increasingly dismisses everything that came before.

Wyoming is the most splendidly beautiful place in this country, and if you disagree you just ain't going outside enough. We want it to stay that way.

We're also one of the most resource rich places on the entire planet. We must extract those resources, to provide jobs and the pride that comes from meaningful work.

The political class has created a false choice between these two options. They make it seem like you can either have jobs and resource extraction, or protect the environment. By making this false choice, they keep us divided and scared, instead of united and thriving.

Imagine a Wyoming where instead of investing in a bunch of stuff to make us more like LA and New York, we invested in the protection of our ecosystem alongside our resource extraction. For every extraction project, there are potential jobs on the front and back end to mitigate ecological harm, and to maintain the landscape we love so much.

By prioritizing stewardship and the many jobs that go along with it, we can lead the nation in energy, agriculture, and defense, all while preserving the beauty of this place we call home.

Energy
Anyone from Wyoming knows that energy is the lifeblood of the state and our nation. We wholeheartedly endorse the existing extraction and energy production industries. We just want to dig deeper.

We say "yes, and" when it comes to energy. Because every form of energy has its place. We believe in continued production of traditional fuels like coal, oil, and gas. We also support investment into renewable energy. But, more than that, we want Wyoming to tap more into our natural resources that have remained under-utilized and under-explored.

As one of countless examples, take uranium. Wyoming is advantageously positioned to mine it, refine it, turn it into power, and then recycle the leftover materials into other resources like the depleted uranium ammunition used by the military. We're also blessed with the space to invest in the most promising of future energy sources; nuclear fusion. Today, the leaders in this are China and Europe; one can't be trusted, and the other is too defenseless to be counted on. Wyoming can lead the way, and power the entire planet.

Meanwhile, Wyoming is blessed with practical experience and the indigenous knowledge to lead in stewardship. When China digs for something like lithium, they use enslaved Tibetan children and destroy the earth irreparably. When we dig, we not only create high paying adult jobs but we can also preserve ecosystems and restore the site when we're done.

Wyoming must take the lead when it comes to sustainable and reliable energy production.

Agriculture
If energy is the lifeblood, then agriculture is the spirit of our great state.

In ranching alone, Wyoming has forged a tradition of hard work and self-reliance that holds true in the character of even the non-ranching Wyomingites. Whether it's raising cattle for the beef industry, sheep for their wool, the best buckin' horses in the country, or even the growing investment in other livestock like yaks, bison, and ostriches, our state is darn good at animal husbandry.

We also have farmers who work hard to get what meager yields they can from our harsh climate and often nutrient deficient soil. Nobody works as hard as a Rocky Mountain Farmer.

Unfortunately, unchecked growth and investment into the wrong-types of residents has depleted our once great spirit. Ranchers and farmers are struggling to make ends meet, and are increasingly reliant on subsidies and contracts with major corporations who take most of the profits. We aim to change that.

The core of our philosophy is easy on this one. We're going to stop selling good agricultural land to out-of-state developers who turn it into subdivisions for other out-of-staters.

Because once that land is gone; it's gone forever.

Even if they move out after a year because of the wind.

As an additional detail, we want to see more support for smaller-scale forms of agriculture and a massive deregulation of the cottage food industry. Wyoming Agriculture has fortunately not gone the way of the dodo yet; we aim to prevent it from ever dying out. The best way to do that is by decoupling from Big Ag, and re-investing in Local Agriculture.

Defense
If Wyoming and the rest of these United States are going to survive, we need to be defended. The tyrants of the world, and even the aspiring tyrants within our own nation, do not want the things we hold dear to last. It is only by having a strong defense industry, supporting a powerful military, that we are kept safe.

But, unfortunately, we didn't listen to the greatest logistician in military history — Dwight D. Eisenhower — when he warned us against a Military Industrial Complex. Today, we don't have a defense industry. We have a defense cartel; it uses regulations, relationships, and downright dishonesty to keep our nation enthralled to their increasingly inferior products.

Wyoming can change this.

We have the privilege of space, and the know-how of generations of veterans and patriots. We must invest as a state in a sustainable defense industry. One that takes pride in the quality of our craftsmanship, the integrity of our commitments, and the strength of our soldiers.

The Federal Government is unfortunately corrupted to its core when it comes to defense spending; our civilian leaders have long since shirked their duties to the troops. But our military is still capable, and full of intelligent citizens who only want to protect the ones they love. We must show the nation how to support our military correctly, not corruptly.

Current conflicts prove that the most important military resource is still the individual soldier and their ability to think. Everything we do should be about preparing and equipping our brave troops so they can do what they do best, and giving them a country worth defending.

By investing in bases, defense manufacturing, and training infrastructure for the next generation of leaders, we can lead the way on transforming our military from the ground up.

That's how we ensure that Wyoming is always safe, from all threats, foreign and domestic.

BONUS: A Rejection of Investing in Tech
We believe that Wyoming's future lies down a different path from those being followed by our neighbor states. While they pursue tech jobs and growth that pushes out existing residents, we want to focus on rewarding the hard working people who already live here.

We want an economy based on jobs you keep having to do, like those in stewardship, energy, agriculture, and defense. All of them are cyclical and easy to take pride in.

It's not that we'd ban tech or the folks who work in it; we're just not going to waste tax dollars trying to attract them. Trust us, they have plenty of their own capital to tap into.

Think about it like this. If you have a tech startup today with 10 coders, the goal of that firm is to eventually get down to 1 coder, and then to build an AI or automation to do it instead. Tech jobs are inherently designed to phase themselves out. That's how they make profit.

And, even though eventually those 10 coders lose their jobs, in the meantime the housing inflation they cause by moving to Wyoming has priced out the folks who were already here.

If tech businesses or their employees want to move here, welcome! Just don't expect the same red-carpet treatment that Utah, Montana, Idaho, Colorado, Arizona, and the rest of the West has rolled out.

Our carpet, in Wyoming, is reserved for folks who work with their hands, and who need it to wipe the mud off their boots before going inside.

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