John Marty for Governor. Bold Vision. Ethical Leadership.

John's response to Tim Pawlenty's State of the State   

Governor Pawlenty talked about people who lost their jobs recently:  "They're not statistics.  They're people dealing with heartbreaking misfortune." 

I agree. Many people have lost their jobs, their healthcare and perhaps even their home.

Yet Tim Pawlenty's solution, a six-point "Jobs Creation" bill, consists of nothing more than some corporate tax cuts. 

It is tough to imagine any laid off worker, living without health care and struggling to pay the mortgage, who would find comfort in Pawlenty's solution of corporate tax cuts.

As Governor, I'll work to create jobs for the unemployed, but my administration won't simply talk about people and their heartbreaking misfortune -- we will help them with guaranteed health care, and through short term emergency help.

To create jobs, the Marty Administration would reinstitute the simple but very successful MEED jobs program and use public investments. More importantly, in the long term we would create jobs by providing a strong infrastructure and investing in the education and health of workers and the community.  And, to address the biggest challenge facing many businesses, we would fix the problem of unaffordable health care, through the Minnesota Health Plan.