America’s Jobs

I believe in the American Dream because I’m living it. The solutions to so many of our nation’s ills, from crime and poverty to dignified retirement and healthcare, can be found in good paying jobs. I want to share my vision for the American Dream by fighting for jobs. Not mine - yours.

In my view, if we used the power of good government to protect our workers and entrepreneurs, families would be stronger, taxes would be lower, and Social Security would be solvent forever.

The politicians have spent a lifetime talking about these things – I have spent my lifetime creating jobs, balancing budgets and getting things done for working people. That’s why I am running for Congress.

In the America I grew up in, everyone who was willing or able to work could find a job and support their families on a single income. Today, the huge multinational corporations are reaping huge profits by rigging the system in their favor. They use their money to influence politicians through lobbyists and political action committees. They craft trade policies that strip American manufacturers and workers of protections and heap benefits onto our competitors in other nations.

The champions of free trade call this “progress,” I think it’s nuts. The results speak for themselves, and I think we need a wakeup call and a good dose of common sense. America is facing a great reckoning if we don’t turn things around soon. I believe that for a nation to create wealth its people must grow, dig, or manufacture. In my company, here in Akron, we manufacture.

I have created 75 good paying jobs with an average wage of 25 dollars an hour. I contribute $4,800 per year towards each employee’s healthcare and at the end of each month I share 30% of the company’s profits with the employees. My employees have a fully funded profit sharing retirement plan and I consider them my extended family.

I can afford to this because we manufacture. We create wealth through electrical energy, chemistry, physics, technology, and dirty hot hard work. We do what many great American companies used to do – we use our hands. We roll up our sleeves. We grind, we shape, and we press. Then we package, sell, and ship.

Our raw material is silicon carbide. Silicon carbide is made from simple sand and carbon obtained from oil pumped from the ground. From little more than dirt and grease we produce wealth for our employees and the people in Akron, Newstead, Erie County, New York State and the United States and others that use our products.

We are the only domestic company manufactures our product, but it doesn’t mean we are unique, and it doesn’t mean that the age of the American worker is over. Our trade and economic policies have to change – the pendulum has swung too far away from us.

We have to protect our markets, we have to invest in manufacturing just as much as we invest in the new service economy and green jobs, and we have to create an economic climate that will lead to greater private sector investment in all of these job sectors right here in America, as opposed to Mexico, China and India.

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