Sept. 15, 2010
West Virginia is Ready to Turn the Corner on Job Creation
By John R. Raese
Candidate For U.S. Senate
We all know by now that President Barack Obama’s original $800 billion “stimulus package” has not come close to helping our nation’s continuing recession. With now 8.9% unemployment in West Virginia—and the second highest increase in unemployment in the nation under Governor Manchin’s watch—we now hear that Obama wants a second round of excessive government spending. Incredible.
Apparently, Obama doesn’t know how to do anything else but spend our money. This time he wants an additional $50 billion, even though the first $800 billion got sucked into a black hole with few results. The President that the liberal media told us was such an idea guy has no other ideas for our economy except to spend the taxpayers into the ground.
The rest of us know that we don’t have an extra $50 billion right now. So where does Manchin stand on this new $50 billion request made by his good friend, Barack Obama? We deserve some answers from Obama and Manchin on this prolonged recession.
So before Manchin falls in line to support Obama’s latest call for an additional $50 billion for a second stimulus package, let’s ask him to take a deep breath and to consider some better ideas.
As I’ve crisscrossed the state over the past several weeks, I sense that West Virginians of all political stripes are ready to give our Mountain State businesses, large and small, a chance to grow jobs again the old-fashioned way: through treating our entrepreneurs and established businesses fairly. I’m not talking about special supertax cuts—just a reasonable approach to taxes and regulations so that our business climate is predictable for those West Virginians who want to invest in our local economy by creating jobs.
From the beginning of my campaign for the U.S. Senate, I have been advocating what we call the Raese Plan for Private Sector Job Growth. This plan is based on my thirty years of experience running my family’s limestone, steel, media, and tourism businesses right here in West Virginia.
As you know, our state has a challenging business climate. But by studying the national and state economy closely, I’ve been able to keep my family’s businesses afloat. But like so many other Mountain State businesses, mine could have created even more good jobs with just a little more fairness from our state and federal government.
My plan’s main idea is simple: good jobs are found where they have always been created: by businesses, large and small, in a private sector that is allowed to thrive.
But if the federal government starts to make the price of doing business too costly, then the government crushes the ability of businesses to grow and to hire more workers.
Please take a look at the three main planks of the Raese Plan and see if you think it is reasonable:
1. Unshackle our businesses from excessive taxes and regulations;
2. Attack big government spending that eats away all of our profits;
3. Protect and stimulate American competitiveness, here and abroad.
For more details on these three planks, go to www.raeseforsenate.org and go to the button that says “The Raese Plan.” We simply must stop the job-killing polices of our government now.
President Obama’s huge and wasteful stimulus package will have one redeeming quality if we learn the right lessons from it as a nation: namely, that big government can never create the good jobs Americans deserve. The Obama Administration has proven beyond any doubt that the federal government alone can’t get us out of a recession. In fact, this administration’s policies have caused the federal government to prolong this sad recession with so many jobs lost.
If I am fortunate enough to win your support as West Virginia’s next U.S. Senator, you will not have to worry for a moment as to whether I will ever vote for a job-killing bill that hurts our vital industries like coal or our small business entrepreneurs. I won’t vote for an increase in taxes or the expansion of government. We have more than enough government as it is.
As a lifelong conservative, I am much more interested in the health of the country than having a well-fed federal government. Towards that end, I seek a more robust and healthy private sector, with all the good jobs it can create for us, and a smaller, more efficient federal government.
We have fed Washington, D.C. enough of our tax dollars. Now it’s time for the federal government to live within its means, just as each West Virginia household must do. If Governor Manchin doesn’t understand this yet as he hobnobs with President Obama, then he needs to read the Raese Plan, too—while he finishes his second term in Charleston.
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West Virginia is Ready to Turn the Corner on Job Creation
By John R. Raese
Candidate For U.S. Senate
We all know by now that President Barack Obama’s original $800 billion “stimulus package” has not come close to helping our nation’s continuing recession. With now 8.9% unemployment in West Virginia—and the second highest increase in unemployment in the nation under Governor Manchin’s watch—we now hear that Obama wants a second round of excessive government spending. Incredible.
Apparently, Obama doesn’t know how to do anything else but spend our money. This time he wants an additional $50 billion, even though the first $800 billion got sucked into a black hole with few results. The President that the liberal media told us was such an idea guy has no other ideas for our economy except to spend the taxpayers into the ground.
The rest of us know that we don’t have an extra $50 billion right now. So where does Manchin stand on this new $50 billion request made by his good friend, Barack Obama? We deserve some answers from Obama and Manchin on this prolonged recession.
So before Manchin falls in line to support Obama’s latest call for an additional $50 billion for a second stimulus package, let’s ask him to take a deep breath and to consider some better ideas.
As I’ve crisscrossed the state over the past several weeks, I sense that West Virginians of all political stripes are ready to give our Mountain State businesses, large and small, a chance to grow jobs again the old-fashioned way: through treating our entrepreneurs and established businesses fairly. I’m not talking about special supertax cuts—just a reasonable approach to taxes and regulations so that our business climate is predictable for those West Virginians who want to invest in our local economy by creating jobs.
From the beginning of my campaign for the U.S. Senate, I have been advocating what we call the Raese Plan for Private Sector Job Growth. This plan is based on my thirty years of experience running my family’s limestone, steel, media, and tourism businesses right here in West Virginia.
As you know, our state has a challenging business climate. But by studying the national and state economy closely, I’ve been able to keep my family’s businesses afloat. But like so many other Mountain State businesses, mine could have created even more good jobs with just a little more fairness from our state and federal government.
My plan’s main idea is simple: good jobs are found where they have always been created: by businesses, large and small, in a private sector that is allowed to thrive.
But if the federal government starts to make the price of doing business too costly, then the government crushes the ability of businesses to grow and to hire more workers.
Please take a look at the three main planks of the Raese Plan and see if you think it is reasonable:
1. Unshackle our businesses from excessive taxes and regulations;
2. Attack big government spending that eats away all of our profits;
3. Protect and stimulate American competitiveness, here and abroad.
For more details on these three planks, go to www.raeseforsenate.org and go to the button that says “The Raese Plan.” We simply must stop the job-killing polices of our government now.
President Obama’s huge and wasteful stimulus package will have one redeeming quality if we learn the right lessons from it as a nation: namely, that big government can never create the good jobs Americans deserve. The Obama Administration has proven beyond any doubt that the federal government alone can’t get us out of a recession. In fact, this administration’s policies have caused the federal government to prolong this sad recession with so many jobs lost.
If I am fortunate enough to win your support as West Virginia’s next U.S. Senator, you will not have to worry for a moment as to whether I will ever vote for a job-killing bill that hurts our vital industries like coal or our small business entrepreneurs. I won’t vote for an increase in taxes or the expansion of government. We have more than enough government as it is.
As a lifelong conservative, I am much more interested in the health of the country than having a well-fed federal government. Towards that end, I seek a more robust and healthy private sector, with all the good jobs it can create for us, and a smaller, more efficient federal government.
We have fed Washington, D.C. enough of our tax dollars. Now it’s time for the federal government to live within its means, just as each West Virginia household must do. If Governor Manchin doesn’t understand this yet as he hobnobs with President Obama, then he needs to read the Raese Plan, too—while he finishes his second term in Charleston.
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