Daily News - Candidate For Congress Says Government Needs To Take A Step Back

Daily News - Candidate For Congress Says Government Needs To Take A Step Back

Jeff Tyberg is running for Congress in order to get the federal government out of the way of the common man.

"Anytime the federal government gets involved in something, they mess it up," the candidate said, adding that he believes the Washington bureaucracy tries to help the common man but tends to "put its foot in its mouth."

"No one in Washington should tell us how to live our lives or run our schools and business," he said.

Tyberg says he believes our founding fathers did not foresee a system in which most of the decisions were made in Washington.

"Five percent of the decisions were to be made at the federal level and 95 percent of the decisions were to be made at the local level," he said.

Tyberg says the cornerstones of his campaign are national security (including the need to tighten border controls and find a legal way to bring immigrants into our country) financial security and individual security. Tyberg, a former homeschool teacher, also said he's in favor of doing away with the federal Department of Education (because Washington bureaucrats should not have a say in how Northern Wisconsin children are educated) and is staunchly pro-life.

Tyberg is fond of noting that he's been alive almost as long as his opponent has been in Congress; he was three months old when Obey was first elected in April of 1969, and insists he has no intention of becoming a career politician.

"I promise to stay in Washington only 10 years," he said, noting that he's running for office because he believes it's "the duty of the common man to run our country."

"It's time for my generation to take the leadership of our country," he said. "There is a time for every generation to lead."

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