1.  Rebuild the economy.  A robust economy is the quickest and greatest job builder.  To rebuild the economy the government needs to provide stability for businesses to plan and grow. 

A.  Fiscal Responsibility

B.  Steady Money Growth

C.   Reasonable Interest Rates

D.  Fair Tax System

E.  Free Trade Among States

F.  Fair Trade Among Countries. 

Given that stability business can plan and begin to grow our economy, creating not only jobs but new products, processes, and industries.

 2.  Roll back NAFTA.  We need to roll back NAFTA and renegotiate an agreement based on what is best for the United States.  In negotiating with another country our job is not to save the other country, but to do what is best for the United States.  When America does well, our neighbors do well.

3.  Work with the communities to determine what kind of jobs they want.  Do the communities want Manufacturing, Services, Retirement, Historical, or Recreation?  Our communities first need to step and decide on their own agendas.  There is a huge difference in each of these industries as to what they are looking for in a community.  When talking about incentives, taxes are not everything to an enterprise considering a move, and we should not concede our tax base just to attract business.  We need that tax base to support our communities.  Enterprises are looking for Skilled Labor, Transportation, Communications, Education to support jobs and families, Permitting, Security, Recreation, and Quality of Life.  These all play an important role in why companies locate into an area.

4.  Identify the federal programs designed to help the community agendas.  There is a lot of work to be done on the Federal and State levels to bring the desired enterprises into our communities; not only existing businesses but also new start-up ventures.  There are programs for improving transportation, communications, education, Federal and State tax relief, and others.  These need to be targeted from the national and state levels to our 10^th District communities to fit our local agendas for development.

5.  Research databases for companies looking for the communities best meeting their needs.  There are databases constantly being updated with enterprises searching for communities that will meet their needs in Skilled Labor, Transportation, Communications, Education to support jobs and families, Permitting, Security, Recreation, and Quality of Life.

PUSH – PULL METHOD -  #3, #4, and #5 are known as “Push/Pull” methods in business for creating a desired result.  We are pulling in the communities, developing the atmosphere to attract the desired enterprises.  We are pushing from the national and state levels with programs designed to aid in developing communities, along with researching the databases of companies desiring locations matching their agendas.