BREAKING NEWS FROM DC: FLORIDA SENATOR RUBIO SHOWS LEADERSHIP AND STANDS UP FOR AMERICANS

Florida's Senator Marco Rubio calls out President Obama for his speech yesterday where he slammed the American people for being successful. As Senator Rubio stated, "this is class warfare."

While our countrymen are hurting and jobs are few, we have a President who believes he can "come out swinging" at the American people instead of working to fix the problem.

Thank you Senator Rubio for your leadership today. You can view his speech here or read his comments below.

Senator Rubio calls out President Obama

	J.R. Sanchez
	Director of Outreach

	Office of United States Senator Marco Rubio
	Hart 317 Washington DC 20510
	202-224-3041

Thursday, June 30, 2011 Contact: Alex Burgos (202) 224-3041

Senator Rubio Criticizes President’s Rhetoric, Lack Of Leadership On Senate Floor

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Marco Rubio spoke on the floor of the Senate today to address the most critical issue facing our nation, Washington’s out-of-control spending and our nation’s massive debt. Senator Rubio also commented on President Obama’s press conference yesterday, during which his rhetoric failed to address these serious issues and stoked the flames of class warfare.

For a broadcast quality version of this speech, click here. You can also find the video on Senator Rubio’s YouTube account. For a full transcript of Senator Rubio’s remarks, see below:

Senator Rubio: “Thank you, Senator Johnson.

I too yesterday watched the President's lecture on television. Watched it again this morning just to make sure I was well informed before I came here. My reaction is twofold.

One is I'm disappointed, and the other is I'm alarmed.

First, I'm disappointed because America does not have a tradition of class warfare. It’s never been part of our nation. In fact, one of the things that distinguishes us from the world is that Americans have never believed that you somehow have to take money away from somebody else in order to be better off.

On the contrary, we've always looked to advance the cause of everyone in the belief that we can all be prosperous and in the hopes of growing our economy that way. That's the American tradition and that serves our nation well.

Unfortunately, you wouldn't know that from the speech yesterday, a rhetoric that, quite frankly, was deeply disappointing.

The idea that if we raise taxes, as the President said, on millionaires and billionaires, raise taxes on oil companies, raise taxes on owners of private jets, that that somehow is going to make a difference in America’s debt in terms of having a real impact, is not only misleading, I think, quite frankly, it's disappointing.

It's class warfare, and it’s the kind of language that you would expect from the leader of a third world country, not the President of the United States.

But I'm also alarmed and worried about the speech because I think from it you can only take two things. Either the president doesn't truly understand the nature of the problem that we face, or he's decided that this is a political issue, not a policy one.

I say he perhaps doesn't understand the nature of the case because, for example, he mentioned the corporate jet tax six different times, and yet the impact it would have is so insignificant that the White House to this very moment has not even been able to give an estimate about what it means in a dollar figure.

Going further, by the way, it’s important to note that that exact tax provision was part of the President's now-infamous ‘stimulus’ plan that passed in February of 2009.

The bigger problem, though, is maybe the President fundamentally doesn't understand how jobs are created. Politicians don't create jobs. U.S. Senators don't create jobs.

Senator Johnson pointed out jobs are created by everyday people from all walks of life that start a business or expand an existing one. And our job here in government is to make it easier for them to do that, not harder. And threatening to raise taxes, threatening to wage class warfare does not accomplish that purpose.

Here's what I would suggest to the President: I would suggest that we have done this before as a people of America, things like a simpler tax code. People around here are in favor of tax reform. A simpler tax code, a manageable and sane regulatory environment, and of course a government that doesn't spend money it doesn't have. These things have worked before, and they will work again. And I urge the President to lead us in that direction.”

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Comment by Monica Cook on June 30, 2011 at 7:15pm: This man needs to run for President!

Comment by Alice & Terry Beutien on June 30, 2011 at 6:53pm: Thank you Senator Rubio!
Rubio in 2010 & Col. Mike McCalister in 2012. What a couple of powerhouse Senators Florida will have representing us!!!!!

Comment by JL Gawlik on June 30, 2011 at 6:43pm: We need more like him, West, Chaffetz, Issa, and many of the new Freshmen Congressional members of the 112th Congress who are truthful and honest. Here is Rubio's maiden Senate floor speech made a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.fctpcommunity.org/profiles/blogs/marco-rubios-maiden-senate

Interesting to note, Chuckie Schumer, God father of Anthony Weiner, he groomed him for Congress, Weiner was his assistant, stated that GOP was opposing the economic recovery for political gains. Interesting to note this piece of... well fill it in with your words, used the Gabrielle Gifford shooting incident as a fund raiser for his campaign to be reelected on a anti-gun, anti-second amendment issue, other Dems did the same thing, i sent out a letter to several people that i knew who were in their states and districts and they were livid they wrote and called their representatives and basically told them how disgusting they found the letter.

Did anyone notice President Obama, yesterday was channeling Karl Marx when he stated: "From each according to their ability. To each according to their need."

We have a Marxist in the White House.

Comment by Michael Simmons on June 30, 2011 at 6:39pm: I said it right after he was elected and I'll say it again: "One day Marco Rubio is going to live in a big white house"! Way to go Marco!

Comment by Kate Svagdis on June 30, 2011 at 5:38pm: Thank you, Marco. Few GOP actually stand up and face the media and this president.

Grace and refinement-good work, Sen Rubio!

Comment by Arthur Crounse on June 30, 2011 at 5:36pm: In GOD I TRUST

Comment by Melanie Flack on June 30, 2011 at 5:31pm: Because I cannot afford a new television, and because I tend to throw things at said television when the POTUS addresses us, the great unwashed...I did not hear the press conference. Instead, I read a transcript of the speech later online, which is much safer for my electronics. Senator Rubio, on the other hand, I could listen to happily. He could have used stronger terms and comparisons, in my opinion,too. Unfortunately, it is my fear that his words will fall on the deaf ears of most of his fellow senators. For what it's worth, I applaud and thank you, Senator Rubio .

Comment by Sandy McCorvey on June 30, 2011 at 5:29pm: What a great presentation! Florida sent some fine people to Washington from that November 2010 election, and to Tallahassee too. We need to keep supporting these patriots and send a lot more next year, from all over the country. I hope he's the VP candidate on the Republican ticket for 2012.

Comment by Arthur Crounse on June 30, 2011 at 5:29pm: I say with due respect to our president. The American people are tired of you. The change has made this land I love with leadership that would take many, if not all rights away and give us only Goverment control over everthing in our lives. I think the Fare tax would be a good way to start. Herman Cane has stated he supports this. As hear more of his words, I am sure he would make a good choice for Goverment. He may not win, but should be apart of it.

Comment by Dee Lucas on June 30, 2011 at 5:24pm: Rubio will be our President one day! This is how I see it. If they use the back door politics of giving annesty to the illegals through the dream act and we continue to let millions in legally, sooner or later his ethnic background will get him elected. I might be way off base but that is how I see the future

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