for trying to better themselves, but rewards them for dependency, guess what? they get more dependency. and learn that more off welfare or a desire for dignity. and many actually did lack a simple household device that they had never needed before, an alarm clock. no kidding. i mean, people who didn t have to worry about being a the a job on time didn t have an alarm clock. it became sort of inside and untold story in our administration of the essential tool moving people from welfare to work. the insistence of having to work to collect benefits wasn t cruel, what was cruel was to trap people permanently in the pits of a system. caused people to depend on politicians for their nesties which made them bo holden to the politicians who seemingly provided them. it wasn t good for the people on welfare, no, it was good for the politicians who created a dependent class, who
a system that punishes people for trying to better themselves, but rewards them for dependency, guess what? they get more dependency. and learn that more off welfare or a desire for dignity. and many actually did lack a simple household device that they had never needed before, an alarm clock. no kidding. i mean, people who didn t have to worry about being a the a job on time didn t have an alarm clock. it became sort of inside and untold story in our administration of the essential tool moving people from welfare to work. the insistence of having to work to collect benefits wasn t cruel, what was cruel was to trap people permanently in the pits of a system. caused people to depend on politicians for their nesties which made them bo holden to the politicians who seemingly provided them. it wasn t good for the people on welfare, no, it was good for the politicians who created a dependent class, who were dependent on their being reelected. now, the obama administration wants to
ewill lexes are in person voter fraud. and the governor takes on attorney general holder s claim. and the topics, you wrote us about tonight. ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. [applaus [applause] thank you. thank you very much. and we ve got a great studio audience and from huckabee on the fox news studios. one of the few times that the government worked is during the welfare reform efforts of the mid 1990 s, engineered originally by wisconsin governor tommy thompson and utah governor mike leavitt, the republican congress in 1994 and speaker newt gingrich worked with democratic president bill clinton, to pass the landmark legislation which was crafted to take people from welfare roles to payrolls. and in my first legislative section as governor, we developed a plan who would give people who were suck in the welfare hole a ladder to self-reliance. and in my state, it was no easy sell and those far on the left were convinced if we removed government life s