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Posted on 05/08/2015 10:59:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The former Arkansas governor understands something important about GOP voters: They aren’t opposed to welfare spending as long as it’s for them.
For his opening pitch to Republican voters, Mike Huckabee channeled a little of Elizabeth Warren’s fiery populism. Washington, he said in his video announcement, “has done enough lying and stealing. I’ll never rob seniors of what our government has promised them and even forced them to pay for.”
He hit this note again in his first campaign speech, with a few shots at his GOP competitors for good measure. “There are some who propose that to save the safety nets like Medicare and Social Security, we ought to chop off the payments for the people who have faithfully had their paychecks and pockets picked by the politician, promising them that their money would be waiting for them when they were old and sick,” said Huckabee. “My friend, you were forced to pay for Social Security and Medicare. For 50 years, the government grabs the money from our paychecks and says it’ll be waiting for us when we turn 65. If Congress wants to take away someone’s retirement, let them end their own congressional pensions, not your Social Security.”
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What Huckabee understands—and what makes him a serious presence in the GOP field—is that many Republican voters, even those on the right, aren’t opposed to generous government spending on individuals. Disproportionately older or elderly, they’re strong supporters of Social Security and Medicare, which they see as earned benefits. Instead, they’re opposed to spending on people perceived as undeserving. Texas Gov. Rick Perry discovered this the hard way in the 2012 primary, when he blasted Social Security as a “Ponzi scheme.” Seniors turned against him....
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"Writer. Photographer. The real racist".
This is from his facebook page...
HUCKABEE 2016
Fighting for Seniors, Social Security & Medicare
Social Security and Medicare are not voluntary programs. They are based on involuntary confiscation from every paycheck with the promise that people will receive benefits when they retire. The government does enough lying and stealing. It shouldn’t play people for chumps by taking money from workers for 50 years and then fail to uphold its promise. These are earned benefits.
We must repeal and replace Obamacare, which robbed $700 billion from Medicare.
Robbing people of the benefits they have contributed is not a solution — it’s an escape.
20 percent of Medicare spending is waste, fraud and abuse. We must protect Medicare and prosecute fraud.
We must grow the economy and ensure everyone is paying into the system.
As President, I will protect Social Security and Medicare. I will kill anything that poses a threat to the promises we have made to America’s seniors.
http://www.mikehuckabee.com/seniors
How come we can’t afford to pay Social Security, but we can afford to invade and occupy Iraq for a decade at a cost of $1 trillion? We got our money’s worth too - a country in chaos, and a country that was turned from Iran’s biggest enemy into Iran’s closest ally.
As President, I will protect Social Security and Medicare.
And what’s wrong with that? Krispy Christie is talking about cutting Social Security. But he’s for even more military spending - he doesn’t think military spending has a dime of waste in it.
A GOP voter is not a Constitutionalist
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