Democrat Stein Targets GOP Seat, Wants to Reduce Government’s Size

Gary Stein, 53, is the Democrat seeking New Jersey’s Second Congressional District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. The job pays $174,000 annually with a two-year term.
Stein’s website states:
“A fed up-working stiff who’s lived in South Jersey since 1990, who went the extra mile, he (Stein) got his name on the darn ballot as a major party candidate! Born and raised in Dumont, with some time spent in Pennsylvania where he met and married his wife Cynthia in 1986.
“Here’s how we send a message to the Washington establishment that we’ve lost patience with all of them. Either unseat our lying (I’m dead serious), term limit breaking- completely mediocre Congressman, or send him back slightly humbled. Maybe he’ll consider retiring after this term; he’ll be 66 in 2012. Vote for Stein, please, for your sake and mine, I’m an office cleaner by profession, the symbolism won’t go unnoticed in Washington.
“I’m for: Reducing the size of government the only way that will work at this point, by eliminating entire departments. I’m against clichés, bromides and soporific solutions such as “we need more efficiency in government” which we do of course…so I’m also for, re-writing the Civil Service code.
“Historic grievances civil servants had in the past with racist or corrupt party kingpins, mayors, ward leaders, or just bonehead supervisors, can be taken up as easily nowadays, in the courts, the same recourse the rest of us have, or they can simply just plain quit their job and take one in the private sector.
“I’m for single payer health care, i.e., the takeover of the medical insurance industry by the government. Is that the biggest contradiction you ever heard, given what I just said above about big government? No, not at all. Which big government department would I eliminate first, on the way to single payer? Who knows? Try the Department of Education, or just throw a dart and hope it doesn’t hit Defense, State or Treasury.
“I’m pro-choice. I’m for gay marriage, and immigration amnesty.”
“I’m for ramping up nuclear power, and I supported George W. Bush’s rescue of the banks. I’m dead set against Obama’s stimulus spending sprees, but I was, am and always will be for his rescue of GM and Chrysler.
“I’m for spending more money to make the border secure, and I’m almost ready (I dream about this in my sleep) to declare war on Mexico’s incompetent and corrupt government. And while I’m on the subject; I wish Mexican illegals here in the U.S. would get out front in a boycott, of Mexico, just like I’ve gotten out front pushing for amnesty for THEM! “I’m for: Eliminating the underground economy by phasing out cash, and issuing a government debit cards in the place of “cash.” That’s government windfall No. 1. I’m also for… eliminating the income tax, for all but the very wealthy… and instituting a regressive national sales tax (an inducement to everybody to move up the economic ladder, and that tax is government windfall No. 2 BUT not before the government takes responsibility for the awful mess they’ve gotten us into and reduces itself by about one third.”