Iowa Ag Secretary Bill Northey is encouraging everyone, including presidential candidates, to #GetYourAgOn at the Iowa State Fair. Well Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas and 2008 winner of the Iowa Republican Caucuses, is definitely getting his #GetYourAgOn with his love of pork. He kicked off his Des Moines Register Presidential Soapbox speech saying, “Porkchop on a stick. It’s what’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner.” Seriously though, as Mike Huckabee took the stage he said he wants to be president because America needs to get back on a solid economic, security and moral ground.

How will he do this? Through his “fair tax” initiative. If enacted, it would bring manufacturing jobs back home and enable companies to build the products that are created in our own country competitively. He wants our military to be so strong, “nobody around the globe ever wants to pick a fight with us”. He wants to dismantle the IRS and bring frugal spending back to Congress. He noted, “We spend our campaign money like you wish the government spent your tax money. We try to be frugal.”

He is also a supporter of American farmers and those who engage their pursuits in the biofuels industry. He supports the Renewable Fuel Standard and said the move to eliminate the RFS, “just messed up people who trusted their government”. He explained that the government came to American farmers and asked them to engage in a process. But to pull out disrupts an economy. The government made a promise to farmers and the biofuels industry and they need to keep this promise.

To learn more about why Mike Huckabee wants to be our next president this to his speech here: Mike Huckabee at Iowa State Fair