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 Post subject: Strauss addresses job growth, illegal immigrants
PostPosted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:26 am 
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Candidate VOP - Strauss addresses job growth, illegal immigrants
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I believe that making La Porte flourish will take much more than just bringing in jobs and jumping at every opportunity that falls in our lap. We must bring in both service- and industrial-based jobs.

Also to make La Porte flourish, we must start by eliminating unneeded expenditures in local government to make room for infrastructure improvements. Then we must require that businesses that apply for tax abatements train a percentage of their employees in skilled-labor positions within their industry. This allows La Porte to have much more leverage in getting higher paying jobs with better benefits. Many very good companies will simply not come to La Porte because the amount of skilled labor versus unskilled labor is drastically getting slimmer, and our roads and sidewalks leave nothing to be desired.

If we are looking to make our city flourish, we must not forget about the drastic effects illegal immigration has on our community. While illegal immigration is not a major plank in my platform, I do believe that allowing illegal activity in our community is not a good way to attract businesses, tourists and newcomers to our community. We must take steps to ensure that employers only hire legal citizens and legal immigrants and that landlords only rent to legal citizens and legal immigrants. The steps that need to be taken should also encompass protections to legal residents’ civil rights and add fines for hate crimes. Illegal immigration affects everyone in the community by taking tax dollars away from legal residents in our schools and prevents many legal qualified individuals from applying for government benefits simply because some illegal immigrants took those benefits wrongly.

MICHAEL STRAUSS
Independent candidate for La Porte mayor


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