VIDEO: Asbury Park Press editorial board Sipprelle vs Holt

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NEPTUNE — The two main candidates for the 12th Congressional District seat slugged it out over economics, health care and other issues Monday.

http://www.app.com/article/20101011/POLITICS/10110351/12th-district-foes-focus-on-the-economy

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GO SCOTT!

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I don't get the teabaggers.
When bush was pissing away billions.....................they said nothing.
I don't get it!
Not that I agree with obama.
He turned out to be a big dissapointment.
I'm just asking.
WHY? teabaggers, WHY?

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Siprelle voters are either millionaire hedge fund cronies, who he helped evade taxes, or politically ignorant people who do not read newspapers and get their slanted information from sound bytes and Fox news. Investigate the facts. He is not a friend of the struggling middle class or seniors.

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Yes, we're clearly better off with financial wizards like your hero Barney Frank who was so blinded by the opportunity to squander the resources of Freddie and Fannie he missed the fact that they were deeper in debt than the entIre federal government. Way to go Barney!

And yes, Bush supported these shenanigans, too, which is why people are so disillusioned. For the past 10 years, we have had out of control growth of government- infringing on our rights and wasting our money as fast as possible. The Tea Party has turned into a farce, but at least it started as an effort to scale back government.

Meanwhile, people like you complain that taxes are too high without offering any practical measure for lowering them. How are you going to cut taxes without cutting expenses?

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If that's all the Tea Party was really about, I'd probably join it. As it stands, all that Medicare and Social Security is to me is another way to make me pay for someone else's benefits. They will get benefits in excess of what they contributed over their career and I will get left with squat because the services will go bankrupt before I am collect on them. Or if they haven't, they will have been repeatedly revised to the point of uselessness, with retirement ages kicking in at 80 and tiny pay outs that are a fraction what I put in. The whole system is an entitlement program for baby boomers on the backs of the much smaller population generations that follow them.

But alas that's not what the Tea Party is really about. It's about religious extremist who believe dinosaurs walked the Earth with man 7,000 years ago (something Sarah Palin is seen on video saying to a high School assembly in Alaska), that being gay is a mental disability or a choice equivalent of using cocaine (depending on which candidate you want to quote), that self-pleasuring will send you straight to Hell and that all we need to do to solve all our violent crimes in this country is close the borders to illegal immigrants but do nothing to stop the domestic demand for the illegal drugs or guns that pour across the border (which is what is destroying Mexico as a state too). And even when the Tea party pays lip-service to economic issues, so rare though it is, it is to try and suggest that the current Administration is responsible for all our Debt problems, ignoring that a vast majority of it was created by previous Republican administrations since Reagan that have consistently out-spent Democrat administrations. That’s simple hypocrisy. The very fact that the movement didn’t show up until now demonstrates it has less to do with small government and more to do with social extremism. If it were about small government, it would have taken hold a long time ago.

Alas there is no national movement that is really about small government and less spending, so you can rest easy. Any credible such movement would hold both national parties in equal contempt and not be deluded by divisive social issues that have nothing to do with lower taxes and less spending. The Tea Party is not it.

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