Mike Huckabee (file photo)

Mike Huckabee (file photo)

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says the recent turmoil on Wall Street reminds him of what happened in 2008, during the last recession.

“If there had been government policies that did not favor big business over small business big banks over community banks and favor people on Wall Street versus people on Main Street,” Huckabee says. “It was a disaster and it was a disaster that could have and should been prevented.”

Huckabee spoke last night at a VFW in Waterloo. He’s campaigning in northeast Iowa today.

(Reporting in Waterloo by Pat Blank, Iowa Public Radio)