With 30+ years in Corporate America, I know how to get our economy back on track. Inflation has presented itself in many different forms: through rising costs of goods, mortgage rates on homes, interest rates on credit cards, increased rent payments, high costs of airline tickets and travel, and in many other ways. Inflation is making our normal, middle class lives unaffordable, with gas prices almost double and grocery prices 25%-40% higher. Inflation is actually a "hidden tax". And wages are not increasing at the same rate (5%) as Inflation is increasing (25%-40%) and that is why it's hard to keep up. Now that our lives are becoming unaffordable in the 11th district, we must make significant changes in order to live the lives you deserve and have built for yourselves and your families over many years.
How can we do to get America back on track? With my 30+ years of corporate business experience, I have the skills to make the right fiscal decisions for you. I will author, support, and fight for our middle class by making critical policy changes and cost reductions:
1) Energy Independence: America must become energy independent and net exporters of fossil fuels. I support our clean, natural gas industry in the United States. I am a proponent of new fossil fuel drilling, opening up the Keystone Pipeline, resume fracking, building new refineries, and producing just as much or more oil as we did in the last administration. Above all, we cannot keep depleting our oil reserves like we are under the Biden administration.
2) Food Independence: I support our farmers and their ability to farm and make it affordable to farmers to purchase raw materials, diesel and fertilizer to grow crops. I believe in allowing farmers to continue to raise and bring to market livestock, and will not support bans on pork products nor other livestock products. I support U.S. farmers growing crops on U.S. land to feed U.S. citizens - as silly as this sounds, it needs to be said, and it needs to happen without restrictions or limitations. We need to produce more food in the U.S. and ensure the health of our citizens, and our dominance as a world food producer. I will also strengthen laws related crimes such as arson or vandalism to livestock, farms, and food producing facilities.
3) More and Better Jobs - In my career, I have created nearly 10,000 new jobs, and I will use my strong skills in business development to bring back jobs to the United States and to the 11th District of Illinois. It has been far too long that we have either been lied to or served by incompetent leaders that have taken our high paying jobs away and handed them swiftly over to China, Japan, the Middle East and other parts of the world. Most recently, and in my home state of Pennsylvania, the company US Steel was sold to Japan - one of the most iconic companies in this country. We are losing out to countries that are more concerned about nationalism and protecting their own citizens. The United States must regain a highly diversified manufacturing and service economy in order to create high paying, and high volumes of new jobs in our area. I am determined to enact significant policy changes to make this happen. And I will create jobs in fields such as technology, service, manufacturing, aerospace, and other thriving industries. And I will not lie to you about unrealistic expectations. Example: our current leadership are boasting about the upcoming re-opening of the Stellantis plant in Belvidere, IL which Bill Foster is taking a great deal of credit for. But the failing EV industry may bring down not only Stellantis but our entire U.S. Auto Industry as a result of a much-too-rich new contract, along with the failed economic and energy policies of the Joe Biden administration, wholeheartedly supported by Bill Foster. And I will not support Chinese Communist Party companies such as the new Gotion plant in Manteo, IL, to come into our district and our country to exploit and bring down our American economy! I will fight to keep them out of the 11th, and instead create the best environment for U.S. small business, mid sized firms and large companies - all capitalists - to thrive and create new companies and new jobs for our people in our home town neighborhoods.
4) Cost Reduction - We have overspent. $34 Trillion in debt, and $2 Trillion per year in just interest payments. How did we get here? Well, one major reason is that we invested in COVID relief programs that were unnecessary by $2 trillion since Joe Biden has entered the White House. No longer should we be funding people that are able to re-enter the workforce. In addition, there are thousands of projects that are not fiscally sound or that are unnecessary and should be eliminated. For example, in the Infrastructure Bill passed in 2021, over $1Trillion will be spent on over 40,000 projects. One major project is to create EV charging stations throughout the country. But why would the government be funding such a project, when we are a free enterprise system? Gas stations are owned by private business, so why would the government need to provide EV charging stations? We must identify programs like these and others and either cut them out all together, or make modifications so that we are spending your tax dollars just like we spend our own money. Much of the COVID relief provided to the state of Illinois has not yet been spent, and in some areas lavish plans are being made to use up this money - but again - this is OUR money, as it came from the taxes we have paid as citizens, and we cannot keep making poor decisions with our taxpayers' money. I have managed departments, divisions and major areas of very large companies over the years, with great fiscal responsibility. My greatest strength is turning a profit for the companies I have worked for, and I will do the same for the United States of America. We will return to the strongest economy in the world with me, and other strong leaders that will be voted into Congress, working together for a Better America.
Let's face it, our families in District 11 can no longer afford these drastic costs at the pump and at the kitchen table any longer. This failing economy and skyrocketing inflation is destroying our middle class lives and the American dream is fading. Vote for candidates like me that are determined to cut costs, curb inflation, bring businesses back to America and to District 11, and that will fight for you, our American citizens, to make that happen.
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