By Annie Hamilton
Gcc/Staff
Jan. 1, 2010

Editor’s Note: In this upcoming and important Election year, we will bring to your attention individuals that we believe will help get America back. We will give you the facts and you decide. 

As Americans must get involved! This election is to important to America, our children and grandchildren to sit home and do nothing.

We would like to know what you think. dan@goldcoastchronicle.com

 

He hunts with America’s Generals….pays his own benefits and works seven days per week. So what’s the catch?

He’s an incredibly hard worker and understands what it takes to get the job done. He’s endorsed by the top leaders in America, from Major General Paul Vallely, Retired Army Fox Analyst, Lt General Tom McInerney USAF Fox Analyst, Brig General Jim Cash USAF, Brig General Jim Sentman.

 
“Steve Rathje, Cedar Rapids Businessman, recently announced he’d run for Congress Congressional District in 2010″ Cedar Rapids, IA, December 31, 2009 – Cedar Rapids entrepreneur and business owner, Steve Rathje (R), has filed Statement of Candidacy documents with the Federal Election Commission pursuant to his decision to run for United States House of Representatives in Iowa’s Second Congressional District in 2010.

Since forming International Procurement Services, Inc., and the Genesis Group in 1992, Rathje has consistently reduced his customers’ costs by 30% to as much as 500%, and more importantly, “actually created and/or saved” Iowa jobs, the kind of jobs that build families and make for a safer stronger Iowa and America, all while successfully competing with offshore competition.

Steve has successfully negotiated the return of good paying manufacturing jobs from countries like China, Taiwan, Mexico, Europe and Canada back to the United States where they belong.

Rathje is hardly an amateur when it comes to cutting waste and creating jobs. When Iowa’s economy started to plummet last year, rather than cutting his workforce, this family-centered Executive opted to eliminate his own salary instead, retaining his entire staff.

“Lessons in Leadership” mostly come from growing up in a hard-working family, one that worked from sunset until sundown, implementing family, God-centered values into their children and everyday lives.

For Steve, this stuck and lives with him every day of his life, putting others’ needs first, never cutting corners, embracing personal responsibility, taking security seriously and understanding that the only thing that creates loyalty is a job done well and a stable economy.

He learned this lesson early on, putting his focus firmly on stabilizing his competitive edge in order to keep American jobs.

Imagine his vision and leadership in solving the problems Americans face today! Therefore, Rathje, a common sense conservative, is committed to putting not only Iowan’s, but all Americans back to work with a plan that creates more than 6 million jobs, averaging $50K per year.

A plan that stimulates the economy with nearly $800 Billion, one that empowers new business with much needed startup capital, empowers College Grads to pay down or pay off daunting college debt within a three year period, offers a constitutionally based healthcare/health insurance alternative that saves the people money, promotes competition and embraces personal responsibility.

Steve understands that “jobs create an economy, an economy creates stability, stability creates economic might and economic might creates national security.”

A January announcement tour is currently being scheduled with details to be provided soon.

 

Source: Steve Rathje       American Constitutional Forces