The runner-up to Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney took on
welfare and the idea that Americans should rely on government in his
Republican National Convention speech Tuesday night.
Championing his story as a first generation American, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum offered his idea of the American Dream — working for success.
“My grandfather, like millions of other immigrants, didn’t come here for some government guarantee of income equality or government benefits to take care of his family,” he said. “In 1923 there were no government benefits for immigrants except one: Freedom!”
To Santorum, in Obama’s America the guarantee is a government handout, not the dream.
“Under President Obama, the dream of freedom and opportunity has become a nightmare of dependency with almost half of America receiving some government benefit,” he said. “It is no surprise fewer and fewer Americans are achieving their dreams and more and more parents are concerned their children won’t realize theirs.”
The former Pennsylvania senator explained that Obama’s plan has spelled harm for America.
“The result — massive debt, anemic growth and millions more unemployed,” he said. “The president’s plan didn’t work for America, because that’s not how America works.”
Championing his story as a first generation American, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum offered his idea of the American Dream — working for success.
“My grandfather, like millions of other immigrants, didn’t come here for some government guarantee of income equality or government benefits to take care of his family,” he said. “In 1923 there were no government benefits for immigrants except one: Freedom!”
To Santorum, in Obama’s America the guarantee is a government handout, not the dream.
“Under President Obama, the dream of freedom and opportunity has become a nightmare of dependency with almost half of America receiving some government benefit,” he said. “It is no surprise fewer and fewer Americans are achieving their dreams and more and more parents are concerned their children won’t realize theirs.”
The former Pennsylvania senator explained that Obama’s plan has spelled harm for America.
“The result — massive debt, anemic growth and millions more unemployed,” he said. “The president’s plan didn’t work for America, because that’s not how America works.”
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