Issue Position: Jobs

Issue Position

Nothing is more important than ensuring every hardworking Michigander can make a living. Gretchen believes that everyone deserves the opportunity to make a good living in the town they grew up in and that no one should have to move to find work with all of the possibilities here at home for new and revitalized business.

It used to be that people around here could get a job that paid a decent wage and had benefits, a job that meant people could afford a few weekends a year at a cabin at the Lake. Bad trade deals, automation and outsourcing have hurt our way of life. We can get it back, but we have to be smarter about job training. We need to grow jobs by making it easier to open small businesses, diversifying our job market with high-tech and green jobs, and expanding local trade schools and apprenticeships. We can reward businesses large and small for investing in local products and support community college programs that train students in growing technical fields.

Congressman Walberg has voted for every bad trade deal that has come up during his time in Congress, he even agreed that "outsourcing is necessary and good for our economy." He is just plain wrong.

While Gretchen was working to attract new companies and to revitalize downtown into one of the best small towns in America, Walberg was taking campaign contributions from Wall Street and putting their profits over creating jobs in Michigan. Gretchen has actually cut red tape to help small businesses in Saline. When new business came to town, she would bring everyone around the table to make sure that any barriers could be addressed at the same time. From small business like the local florist downtown to international investments from companies like Liebherr, Gretchen has always found new ways to bring jobs to her hometown.

It's time we have someone like Gretchen standing up for us in Washington and fighting to create opportunity at home, not overseas. In Congress, Gretchen will stand with working families against politicians like Tim Walberg who put their donors ahead of the people they were elected to represent.

"The wealthy and well connected have a Congress that fights for them already. I'll be a Congresswoman who fights for you, your family, and what's best for our country."
-- Gretchen Driskell

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