About Me

In writing the "About Me" portion of this blog I thought about the purpose of the blog - namely, preventing the growth of Socialism & stopping the Death Of Democracy in the American Republic & returning her to the "liberty to abundance" stage of our history. One word descriptions of people's philosophies or purposes are quite often inadequate. I feel that I am "liberal" meaning that I am broad minded, independent, generous, hospitable, & magnanimous. Under these terms "liberal" is a perfectly good word that has been corrupted over the years to mean the person is a left-winger or as Mark Levin more accurately wrote in his book "Liberty & Tyranny" a "statist" - someone looking for government or state control of society. I am certainly not that & have dedicated the blog to fighting this. I believe that I find what I am when I consider whether or not I am a "conservative" & specifically when I ask what is it that I am trying to conserve? It is the libertarian principles that America was founded upon & originally followed. That is the Return To Excellence that this blog is named for & is all about.

Sunday, August 16, 2015

Excerpts From Huckabee's Airtime @ FNC Debate

Mike Huckabee was one of the few presidential candidates in the August 6 FNC debate who did not claim to be "the only one" to do something – Dr. Carson's claim to be "the only one to separate Siamese twins" does set him apart.
 
I went through the transcript of the referenced debate & pulled out the below excerpts from Governor Huckabee's almost 7 minutes of airtime.  Judge for yourself how important Huckabee's definitive positions are to you. 
 
Some show Governor Huckabee supporting issues similar to other candidates but for reasons that provide a distinction – but Huckabee is the only candidate who unabashedly supports both the FairTax & the Founders' intent regarding the role of the Judiciary Branch – both of which become more important every day to restoring our fading prosperity & waning freedom while contributing to turning around the nation's collectivist course that she is presently on.
 
Excerpts from Mike Huckabee's airtime @ the August 6 FNC Republican primary debate:

1.  A lot of people are talking about defunding Planned Parenthood, as if that's a huge game changer. I think it's time to do something even more bold. I think the next president ought to invoke the Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the constitution now that we clearly know that that baby inside the mother's womb is a person at the moment of conception.

The reason we know that it is is because of the DNA schedule that we now have clear scientific evidence on. And, this notion that we just continue to ignore the personhood of the individual is a violation of that unborn child's Fifth and 14th Amendment rights for due process and equal protection under the law.

It's time that we recognize the Supreme Court is not the supreme being, and we change the policy to be pro-life and protect children instead of rip up their body parts and sell them like they're parts to a Buick.

2.  It's not too big to shrink. But the problem is we have a Wall Street-to-Washington access of power that has controlled the political climate. The donor class feeds the political class who does the dance that the donor class wants. And the result is federal government keeps getting bigger.

Every person on this stage who has been a governor will tell you that the biggest fight they had was not the other party.  Wasn't even the legislature.  It was the federal government, who continually put mandates on the states that we had to suck up and pay for.

And the fact is there are a lot of things happening at the federal level that are absolutely beyond the jurisdiction of the Constitution. This is power that should be shifted back to the states, whether it's the EPA - there is no role at the federal level for the Department of Education.

3.  And I'm still one who says that we can get rid of the Internal Revenue Service if we would pass the FairTax, which is a tax on consumption rather than a tax on people's income, and move power back where the founders believed it should have been all along.

4.  Well, lets all be reminded, 60 million Americans are on Social Security, 60 million. A third of those people depend on 90% of their income from Social Security. Nobody in this country is on Social Security because they made the decision when they were starting work at 14 that they wanted to trust some of their money with the government.

The government took it out of their check whether they wanted them to or not. And, if person goes to 65, they're going to spend 51 years with the government reaching into their pocket at every paycheck.

Now, here's the point, whose fault is it that the system is screwed up?   Is it the recipients, or is it the government?  And, if Congress wants to mess with the retirement program, why don't we let them start by changing their retirement program, and not have one, instead of talking about getting rid of Social Security and Medicare that was robbed $700 billion dollars to pay for ObamaCare.

It's always that the government figures that they can do this off the backs of people, many of whom are poor, and depend on that money, and I just think it's fundamentally lying to people and stealing from them, and we shouldn't be doing it.

5.  Well, you ask about how we fund it.  One of the reasons that Social Security is in so much trouble is that the only funding stream comes from people who get a wage.  The people who get wages is declining dramatically. Most of the income in this country is made by people at the top who get dividends and — and capital gains.

The FairTax transforms the process by which we fund Social Security and Medicare because the money paid in consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers, all the people that are freeloading off the system now.

That's why it ought to be a transformed system.

6.  Ronald Reagan said "trust, but verify."  President Obama is "trust, but vilify."  He trusts our enemies and vilifies everyone who disagrees with him.

And the reason we disagree with him has nothing to do with party.

It has to do with the incredibly dangerous place that this world is gonna be as a result of a deal in which we got nothing.

We didn't even get four hostages out. We got nothing, and Iran gets everything they want.

We said we would have anywhere, anytime negotiations and inspections, we gave that up.  We said that we would make sure that they didn't have any nuclear capacity, we gave that up.

The president can't tell you what we got.  I'll tell you what the world got.  The world has a burgeoning nuclear power that didn't, as the Soviets, say "we might defend ourselves in a war."  What the Iranians have said is, "we will wipe Israel off the face of the map, and we will bring death to America."  When someone points a gun at your head and loads it, by God, you ought to take them seriously, and we need to take that seriously.

7.  The military is not a social experiment. The purpose of the military is kill people and break things.

It's not to transform the culture by trying out some ideas that some people think would make us a different country and more diverse. The purpose is to protect America.  I'm not sure how paying for transgender surgery for soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines makes our country safer.

We've reduced the military by 25 percent under President Obama.  The disaster is that we've forgotten why we have a military. The purpose of it is to make sure that we protect every American, wherever that American is, and if an American is calling out for help, whether it's in Benghazi or at the border, then we ought to be able to answer it.

We've not done that because we've decimated our military.  We're flying B-52s.  The most recent one that was put in service was November of 1962.  A lot of the B-52s we're flying, we've only got 44 that are in service combat ready, and the fact is, most of them are older than me.  And that's pretty scary.

8.  It seems like this election has been a whole lot about a person who's very high in the polls, that doesn't have a clue about how to govern.

A person who has been filled with scandals, and who could not lead, and, of course, I'm talking about Hillary Clinton.

I think America is in trouble, but it's not beyond repair. But it's going to take leadership who sees the greatness of this country, and who believes that once again we can be one nation, under God.

I'll be my best to do that, and thank you for your support.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks RTE for highlighting the responses that Gov. Huckabee gave at the debate. I hope that he remains under the radar but continues to make these common sense responses to questions while other candidates expose their weaknesses and pandering to any and all constituencies. I too want him to talk about the FairTax and also the illegal role that we are allowing the Supreme Court to take. I just want him to remain relevant in this primary season and to be in front of national audiences so that the American people can see his strength and common sense approach to problems. He is not a Washington insider, he does not change his positions, and he is a decent man with the ability to convey his message with conviction and also humor.

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