Straten says Race to the Top Controversy

The "Race to the Top" controversy would never have arisen, if eighth district Republican congressional candidate Roland Straten's position was policy.

"The system is broken," comments Straten. "The federal government takes billions from the State and then makes the State plead for some of it back by requiring a 1,000 page application for Race to the Top funding.”

Straten's point is that the federal government is spending too much and is much too intrusive into the States' operations and prerogatives. The State of New Jersey should decide how to spend its money rather than sending it to Washington and have Washington to decide whether or not New Jersey can have it back.

"The money to fund the grant should never have left New Jersey in the first place," Straten emphasizes. "The federal government taxes us, and then requires us to contend for our own money!"

A fiscal conservative, Straten believes that the federal debt and deficit are the most significant domestic threat to the nation. He notes that the federal government has to borrow from the future to fund such programs and the departments that administer them.

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