What the government can do, the people can do better

Ken Matesz, the Libertarian candidate for Ohio governor, is a man who thinks the U.S. has lost its way and turned its back on what our Founding Fathers intended it to be.

Matesz, who lives in a rural area near Swanton in the northwest part of the state, thinks the men who wrote the Constitution had a different vision in mind -- a land of individual liberties and small government, particularly at the federal level.

He has a simple credo: "What the government can do, the people can do better."

A native of Toledo who grew up in a working-class family, Matesz's day job is operating a business he built himself -- a company that builds and sells masonry heaters, bake ovens and cook stoves in Holland, just west of Toledo.

Since January 2009, he has been traveling northwest Ohio giving a presentation in which he lays out his version of the meaning of the Constitution, speaking to school students and Libertarian and conservative groups. He developed an eight-hour class on the Constitution, complete with a self-written 56-page study guide.

He thinks the public education system in Ohio is a failure, using half the state budget and failing to produce students ready to face the real world.

That is why he and his wife, Nancy, have home-schooled their two teenaged children, although he makes it clear he does not think all parents should do so.

But, he said, it has worked for his children.

"We found a way to spend the least amount of money and get results at least as good or better than what come from a government school that costs 40 times more per student,'' Matesz wrote on his website.

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