As Wall Street and our own government continue their decades-long marginalization of the small business owner, we at FGS-IFS take the opposite viewpoint: allow small business owners a fast-track to franchising their brand, with comprehensive support designed for ease of replication, profitability, brand recognition, and real staying power in the marketplace. Unlike Washington, D.C., which has, in effect, forsaken the small business owner through slashing of investment subsidies and other encouraging in-roads and programs, our franchise investment strategies help put the “little guy” with the big, or novel business ideas on the map.

We’re all for fair, free market capitalism, and doing business on a large scale, but corporate hegemony has crowded out the mom and pop business owners looking for any kind of break in what has been a rather bleak economic landscape. It is a widely-believed fact that only through supporting small business ventures and enfranchisements can we begin to see economic recovery on any kind of substantive scale. Presidential Candidate Governor Mitt Romney has recently proclaimed franchising to be the answer to economic recovery and job growth.

One bright spot in the current climate of small business hostility in the form of corporate welfare, handouts, bank bailouts, layoffs, downsizing, etc. is the Veterans to Work program sponsored by Congress and (officially) President Obama. Working in a sort of concert with this program, IFS is putting veterans back in business as franchise owners with their sister program 21^st Century Vet, featuring optional cost-deferment, and lower entry fees. It’s all designed as a turnkey investment opportunity for qualified, business-savvy leaders who’ve demonstrated what it takes to succeed – both on the battlefields of warfare, and in the business world.

Our Cost-Deferment program, or “franchising financial aid,” if you will, is helping those who can’t quite make the up-front payments to get started in business, and puts them in the driver’s seat of franchise ownership immediately. This is helping get portions of the economy kick started, driving job growth and putting faith in the thwarted and beleaguered business-savvy American who, as never before in our history, is suffering setbacks on what would normally be free market in-roads to small business success.

As evidenced by those taking their grievances to Wall Street , and across America and the world, the “Regular Joes” looking to make it in this world – indeed, even survive and be able to provide for their families – are calling out to economic forces which favor their cause over the cause of unchecked corporate domination. We feel this is a noble aspiration, and FGS-IFS fully supports putting America back to work with relative ease-of-entry into franchise ownership in a number of growth industries.