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>>>Somebody needs to ask Sen. Holt what welfare this bill would stop,” Huckabee said in a question-and-answer period with reporters on Thursday morning. Many aid programs are state-administered but federally funded and are mandated to be available to people in need, Huckabee said.

Even if benefits to people who are in the U.S illegally could be stopped, “I don’t understand how a practicing Christian can turn his back on a child from this or any other state,” Huckabee said.

Huckabee said he took exception to characterization of immigrants in the bill and by its supporters as exploiters of social programs. “They pay sales taxes on their groceries,” Huckabee said. “They pay fuel taxes. If they’re using a fake Social Security number, they’re paying Social Security taxes and will never receive any benefit. It would be closer to the truth to say they’re subsidizing Joe McCutchen and Jim Holt more than the other way around.

“Something that’s not worth sharing is not worth celebrating,” Huckabee said. “This is the kind of country that opens its doors. This bill expresses an un-American attitude.” <<<

Mike Huckabee can take his gabbly gook and stick it. The man seems wholly incapable of comprehending the duties of the state and differentiating them from the duties of a Christian.

The duties of a state are to its people—and to no one else. The duties of a Christian are to all of mankind.

I have to ask what the point of church charity is in all of this? I mean, the state is far more effective at extracting funds from the entire populace. Why not just let the state run a massive charity effort and supplant that of the church? *rolls eyes*

I cannot nor will not ever support a candidate who believes that those in this nation are illegally should in anyway be entitled to state-granted welfare. If he wants to fund that nonsense, let him fund it through his church. Our nation has laws, and if Huckabee doesn’t respect them, he in no way belongs in the executive branch of government.