Watch: Santorum Talks 'Core Values' In Lake County
Santorum says there are three things families can do to avoid poverty
GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said building the economy and cutting taxes is not enough to restore America to greatness.
He said Americans also needed to return to core family values to be successful.
Santorum said that if people did three things -- work, graduate from high school, get married and not have children before they're married -- then they only have a two percent chance of falling beneath the poverty line during their life time.
Conversely, people who don't do just one of those things have a 74 percent chance of living in poverty, he said.
"We can talk about cutting taxes, we can balance the budget -- but we're kidding ourselves unless we really talk about what makes America work," he said.
Santorum was the keynote Friday at the Lake County Republican Party's Lincoln Day Dinner at the American Croatian Lodge in Eastlake.
jim
7:00 pm on Saturday, March 3, 2012
I have heard Santorum's radio ads and if you are a single person with no dependants he has nothing to offer you but chipping in more for other groups of people.
Dave
9:42 am on Sunday, March 4, 2012
Sounds like the same accusations people make about Obama. So is it the Republicans or the Democrats who are wrong? Maybe we are just supposed to help our fellow man and be fair with laws and policies that do the most for the greater good. Just a thought.
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9:58 am on Sunday, March 4, 2012
Watch yourself Dave. Actual thought is not encouraged in their circles.
James Thomas
10:24 am on Sunday, March 4, 2012
Coming from the "Quote Master of the Ages" that's laughable Karyn.
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12:20 pm on Sunday, March 4, 2012
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls.
- Albert Einstein
James Thomas
4:04 pm on Sunday, March 4, 2012
My Point is Made.
Ms. Peters, I agree with you.
Myron Holley
8:10 pm on Saturday, March 3, 2012
The object is to beat B.H.O. the socilest president and his irk, We all so have to vote no on LEVE REF number 4 in the Field School dist. School board and Teachers can not seem to take no for a answer. This is the 4 th time. Its come up. 3 times we have voted it down. Lets hope we do it again.
demo rat
11:59 pm on Saturday, March 3, 2012
Do you really think Santorum could unseat Obama? It's because he called us "snobs", isn't it Myron? You liked that, I bet.
Dave
9:47 am on Sunday, March 4, 2012
I agree that the school board's need to take a harder look at what they are spending money on and how they are spending it. The state and federal governments also need to fund education as they have in the past. Not take away funding to make the system fail so that they can put in their charter school system and make money for their friends off of public funds.
But you are wrong about including the teachers in your comment. Remember these are the people directly affecting the lives of our children. Do we really want to lose our best teachers because we do not pay them fairly?
Myron Holley
8:12 pm on Saturday, March 3, 2012
O and Mitt's past is like OBO'S Put them in a hat. Shake it up and no matter which one you pull out there the same except one says hes a democrate and one says hes a republican.
Lynda Zielinski
9:15 am on Monday, March 5, 2012
Myron, you is speeching the truths. Who need's them Democrates pushin us to spendin our moneys on edjucation? Theys all snobs.
b
8:50 pm on Saturday, March 3, 2012
http://johnnygoodtimes.com/2012/02/who-said-it-santorum-or-hitler/
demo rat
12:04 am on Sunday, March 4, 2012
Hilariously frightening link, b. I scored a frothy 6/10 - competent, but I know I'm capable of better!
*
10:06 am on Sunday, March 4, 2012
Oh, how fun! 10 out of 10!
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10:01 am on Sunday, March 4, 2012
In Rush Limbaugh's world we have "personal sexual recreational activities".
Heather N. Peters
12:47 pm on Sunday, March 4, 2012
Karyn you really should just make a blog for your quotes. This is ridiculous.
James Thomas
8:39 am on Monday, March 5, 2012
When 13 out of 15 posts are not the original thoughts of the person posting then ridiculous behavior is occurring. KC you are crowding out others by this behavior, not to mention the time spent deleting your emails. Is it your intention to silence all others by monopolizing the forum and becoming a burdensome drag on all other posters?
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9:49 am on Monday, March 5, 2012
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln
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9:50 am on Monday, March 5, 2012
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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9:51 am on Monday, March 5, 2012
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
Lebowitz, Fran
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9:54 am on Monday, March 5, 2012
Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
Olive Schreiner
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9:55 am on Monday, March 5, 2012
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
― Chuck Palahniuk
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9:56 am on Monday, March 5, 2012
“Only those with no memory insist on their originality.”
― Coco Chanel
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9:56 am on Monday, March 5, 2012
“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
SharEd
5:12 pm on Sunday, March 4, 2012
Santorum and his cohorts don't want government interfering in healthcare (call it the "let them eat cake" attitude toward those who are unemployed through no fault of their own or making minimum wage and struggling to find affordable health insurance). They also want government to stand by (no regulation) while companies do whatever they want to Americans (remember denial for pre-existing conditions, credit card companies running rampant over consumers as just 2 examples). The problem is that candidates like Santorum want to force (through government) their personal "core values" on the personal and private lives of Americans. That's frightening. That is not government's role. Our country was founded by those who wanted to worship freely and believed in a separation of church and state. Santorum and his preaching brethren don't belong in the bedrooms and private lives of Americans and especially not through government regulation!