Mike Huckabee: Without Government Welfare, Churches Would Let Babies Starve to Death
OK I’m reading into it but here’s what he said on Michael Medved’s show, concerning Natalie Portman (HT2 somebody on Facebook):
You know Michael, one of the things that’s troubling is that people see a Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts of, ‘Hey look, you know, we’re having children, we’re not married, but we’re having these children, and they’re doing just fine.’ But there aren’t really a lot of single moms out there who are making millions of dollars every year for being in a movie. And I think it gives a distorted image that yes, not everybody hires nannies, and caretakers, and nurses. Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can’t get a job, and if it weren’t for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that’s the story that we’re not seeing, and it’s unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock.
BTW I generally agree that our culture glamorizes unwed parenting, but I liked Dan Quayle’s approach a lot better than Huckabee’s.
Huckabee simply described reality, though if he’s trying to preach against single parenthood, I completely disagre.
I suspect that without government assistance, there would be a whole lot less single motherhood. Without government interference, medical care would be priced competitively and would be widely available at affordable prices. Without the drug war, cities would be a whole lot safer. Without the public schools, poor kids wouldn’t grow up to be illiterate.
Thanks for the assistance, government.
There will never be utopia. People will die. Children will starve. But, the fact is that 200 years ago a larger percentage of kids had a probability of dying young than today. That’s not because of government, but because of capitalism. Government intervention may very well help make that figure, today, even lower than it would be otherwise, but it would simultaneously impede the economization of scarce resources to their most urgent processes of production, and thereby would slow the progress brought forth by capitalism.
Well, this is Mike Huckabee. The man is a hack and has been for years. I’m not convinced that even he believes what he says.
“Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can’t get a job, and if it weren’t for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death”
Or maybe if it weren’t for government assistance, they would be choosing to have those children in wedlock instead, with a father around.
To Huckabee, the state is God.