We don't want this country to be a magnet for people who want to get on welfare. We want it to be a magnet being opportunity. We want to say, "If you're willing to work hard, then you can make it in this country." But when you come into the country and you want to work hard, we do is we tax you, we regulate you... we put barriers in front of you. But if you just want to come here and get stuff for free, yeah, we hand it out. It's no wonder.

There was no welfare when my grandfather showed up in Connecticut around the turn of the century, there were no welfare case workers to greet him. There were no food stamps, there was nothing here - he didn't even speak the language. Yet he was able to get a job and work, eventually marry and support eight children. His wife never had a job. He was a skilled laboror, he was a crafts man, he was a carpenter. But on a carpenter's salary, they raised eight children, supported his wife, owned his home. They had a vacation house, they got a car, they didn't have any debt, they didn't have any credit cards. They were able to retire. My father went to college without borrowing any money. He came out of college debt-free. The average American can't do that. Maybe my grandfather didn't even go to high school.

What kind of manual laborer today, can raise a family of eight people without a wife working and without having any debt? And he was just middle class... lower-middle class. And that is what it was like in America before we had this gigantic government.