I’ve been weaving back and forth on the fence with this guy. The other day I read an article where he suggested we needed to do more for the poor. He made a couple of other comments that sounded like a closet liberal which backed up what I’ve been hearing people from Arkansas say. So I’m quite leary of him now.
We’ve spent enough trillions on the poor. If we haven’t ended poverty by now, we’re not going to.
Sorry Huck, I would like to back you, but I don’t think you’re quite what was advertised.
He called those who oppose illegals “bigots” and is a supporter of amnesty. We already elected one “compassionate conservative” and that has not turned out well. Let’s not make that mistake again.
Here’s your cue :)
HEAR HEAR!
Depending on who you talk to, we've spent somewhere in the neighborhood of $11-$14 TRILLION on the "war on poverty", yet 40+ years later we still have the same percentage of "poor"? We've clearly lost this war. What's the exit strategy? When can we expect a timetable for a pull out? I'd love to see those questions posed to these candidates in one of these "debates".
This whole notion of a "war on poverty" is nothing more than a tool, dreamed up FDR, then enhanced by Johnson, to stir up class and wealth envy and ultimately keep Liberal politico's entrenched in power. They use it every election cycle and every election cycle an amazing number of sheeple fall for it. Now, Huckabee is using it and he claims to be a Conservative?
In the immortal words of the High Priest of the Church of the Painful Truth:
Rich people get and stay rich by doing and repeating the behavior that makes them rich.
Poor people get and stay poor by doing and repeating the behavior that makes them poor.
It's really no more complicated than that.
Sorry, Huckster, more than enough of my tax money has been flushed down that rat hole......and we've got way too many illegals here in SE Tennessee for me to support someone who is so soft on border security......
I think he bought into the liberal accusation that GOP stands for ‘rich white guys’, so the “NEW AGE” GOP has decided to keep their “BIG TENT” image by application of ‘compassionate’ to conservatism. Problem with their ‘compassion’ is they are taking what is NOT their’s to take and attempt to guilt conservatives with their ugly paint as uncaring and selfish. Why these who preach this brand of conservatism do not take their missionary work to the third world is beyond me. No they have set out the welcome mat and demand US to fund their compassion.
There IS nothing Christian about their plans or ideology, they have NO RIGHT to pass out other peoples blessings. They want to extend those blessings to the peoples of this world, then they should be teaching/preaching what it is that is required to be blessed.
The war on poverty is a hopeless quagmire. What is the exit strategy?