Mike Huckabee News
Aug 13 2012
Culture of Dependency
Mike Huckabee
Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee released a new chart based on Census data, detailing the growth in federal handouts since 2009. It shows that the number of Americans receiving some form of welfare has grown to nearly 110 million. The chart doesn’t include Americans who are receiving only Social Security, Medicare or the earned income tax credit. But it does include nearly 80 different overlapping federal welfare programs, including food stamps and Medicaid. For instance, since 2000, the number of Americans on food stamps has nearly tripled, from 17 million to 45 million. Over the next decade, spending on food stamps alone is projected to reach $800 billion.
This is what Mitt Romney was talking about when he said that America is in danger of being a “culture of dependency.” Welfare programs growing at that fast a rate eventually become unsustainable, especially when we’re already $16 trillion in debt. They have to be reformed, but who will dare reform them if that many voters are benefiting from them? Already, a third of the US population is receiving some form of welfare, while most people pay no income taxes. It’s awfully hard convincing someone who’s getting a deal like that that for the good of America, they need to voluntarily wean themselves off the freebies.
This commentary is from Friday's Huckabee Report.
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ALori Foncello
08/27/2012 03:13 AM
Hello Govenor Huckabee
I am on SSDI. Ihave RA and spinal stenosis and I am in constant pain.
The medication therapy for RA is not helping.
I am grateful for the help I have been receiving because I have no one to help me.
I do not know what will happen to me when I vote for Mitt Romney but I am going to vote for him anyway.
I am very worried for my country if Obama is re-elected.
I listen to your radio show and I learn so much.
My Dr.always tells me Obama care will hurt his practice and his patients if this is not repealed.
God Bless America
I had a dream that we would have a drought awhile ago and I begged the Gov. in Ct to get some kind of program going to encourage people to grow food. He finally e-mailed me and pooh poohed me. I told him the story of Joseph and Ill bet the Gov. will remember my suggestion over the next year. Lori
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HARRY ZARIFIAN
08/18/2012 05:31 PM
I worked overseas 49 years (6 in Ethiopia, 8 in Iran, 3 in Egypt, 2 in French Morocco & on short term assignments in Sudan,Beirut & Afghanistan, to name a few. I noticed a pattern in Ethiopia and Arab countries similar to Obama's agenda for a second term which the Republican party should focus on at least a week before November 6th and start adding it on television as an issue he should explain transparently before election day. Please call me at (941) 722-5249 for particulars I am sure you would like to hear. Harry Zarifian
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V M
08/16/2012 08:25 PM
I think the welfare system is so out of control with fraud from both sides of giving and receiving. It's like an old, neglected, dirty rug that needs a fierce shaking to discard all the fraud throughout the years. I guess that's probably why Obama would rather have a dependency culture since, if you can't beat them you might-as-well join them attitude. If Romney wins I hope he will be a president who will be able to repair the demages of welfae and restore the welfare program to it's original existence for a short time in need of it not for a life time. -
Rochelle Ferrera
08/13/2012 11:53 PM
The problem with our welfare system is it seems to be designed to keep people down. If you try to get away from it, they drop you before you are fully on your feet, so you drop or fail and they still have you imprisoned in their clutches. The system needs to be a tool used to help those that for whatever reason need a leg up to get to be a productive member of society. But it is not set up that way. Its all or nothing, Reagan talked about it in his book, it was the same during the depression.Those that tried to work immediately lost aid as they were trying to get back on their feet, when it should be a tool used to help yourself. It is a valuable aid but one that is in serious need of revision. It needs not punish those that try to rise up and get out of the system.. It needs to help them succeed.
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Sheila Lowery
08/13/2012 10:48 PM
Hello Mr Huckabee: I am a fan of yours and appreciate all you try to do for our country. I, like many others, feel the welfare, SNAP, Advantage, Medicaid systems to be overhauled. I am a 57 year old female who has been divorced 30 years and raised my two kids, sometimes working 2 jobs, as I never had the opportunity to go to college. I have worked in 2 rural hospitals most of my life, in registration and as a Unit Clerk on a busy Med/Surg floor. The majority of the patients I saw were welfare/Medicaid. Most came in to E.R. every couple of weeks, faking illnesses. Most of them were heavy smokers and overweight. They were mean and ungrateful to the hospital employees. I have a 70 year old friend and most of her grown kids and grown grandkids are on the system. People with Medicaid have BETTER healthcare coverage than those of us who work, and have to pay for ours, along with increasing yearly deductibles and increasing co-pays. Why do they get better coverage than the hard working Americans? Also, 2 Thessalonians 3:10 says. 'if man does not work, he should not eat.' They eat much better than I do because I can't afford to buy much food. They also sell some of their foodstamps to friends/family for cash in exchange for food. Please, please help to get this stopped!!! It is so unfair. The county I live in (Mayes Co., OK) has so many on the "system."
Thank you, Mr Huckabee