Aug 20, 2015
MARCO RUBIO IN DES MOINES IOWA
STUMPING FOR YOUR VOTE
Marco Rubio outlined his vision for his presidency in
Des Moines, Iowa. Marco called for modernizing economic
policies, reforming higher education and taking a stronger stance
against our enemies.
As rain poured down, Rubio kept his remarks short – sticking to his
stump speech – and only using about 9 minutes of his allotted
20.
"Thank you for coming, I'm sorry it rained," Rubio said to the
audience, who donned ponchos and hunched behind umbrellas in
attempts to stay dry. "I brought it from Florida," he joked.
Mentioned we need economic policy reforms to compete with
dozens of other countries for the best jobs, businesses and
ideas.
Marco said the country's tax policies, regulations and
national debt are holding us back.
Rubio said America is not fully utilize its energy resources –
and repeal and replace Obamacare with health care that allows every
American to buy health insurance, with pre-tax money, from
companies from any state.
"The world and the economy is changing, and our policies must
change with it," Marco said. "We are not just facing an
economic downturn, we're facing an economic transformation."
We need flexible college classes for working adults, and
requiring schools to disclose how much students may earn from a
certain degree after graduation -- before they take out a student
loan.
"I believe we need to have alternative, accredited programs that
allow people to get the equivalent of a degree, from alternative
institutions, that allow them to package learning, no matter how
they acquired it," he said. "Let people learn online for free. Give
them credit for what they've learned on their own."
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thank you thanks for braving the rain I'm gonna cut a little short
of the
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normal cos they say another band is coming through and i dont wanna
do want
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to get away but probably too late for that right listen I'm here to
tell you
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why I'm running for president and it's a very straightforward
answer I want this
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to remain a country where parents can do for their children with my
parents did
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for me my parents were born on the island of Cuba they came to the
United
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States in 1956 they barely spoke the language at the time had no
money and
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very little education and yet they were able to buy a home and
raise a family
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they were able to retire with dignity and they were able to leave
all for
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their children better off than themselves what I'm worried about
is
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that today millions of Americans feel like they no longer can
achieve that and
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the reason is because the world in the economy is changing and our
policies
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must change with it we're not just facing an economic downturn we
are
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facing an economic transformation is just like the Industrial
Revolution
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except it's happening faster and it is deeper and it is disruptive
the jobs
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that once sustained are middle-class have been replaced by machines
where
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they've gone overseas or they don't pay what they once did and the
result is
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millions of people feel locked out from the promise of the greatest
nation on
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here's the good news there's no reason why we can't fix this
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America remains a great country the issue is it can be even greater
the 21st
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century can be greater than the 20th century it is fully within our
reach but
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to achieve it there are three things we have to do the first thing
we have to do
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is we have to modernize our economic policies so we can compete
with the rest
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of the world in the new economy there are now dozens of other
countries that
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compete with us for the best jobs the best new businesses the best
ideas and
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we have tax policies and regulatory policies and a national debt
that are
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holding us back or not fully utilizing our energy resources and we
have to
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repeal and replace a health care law we have to repeal it and we
have to replace
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it with something that gives every American the opportunity to
acquire the
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health insurance they want with around pre-tax money from any
company in
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America across state lines that will sell it to them if we do these
things
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the american economy will create millions of the best jobs this
new
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century house which leads me to the second thing we have to do we
have to
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higher education we cannot continue stock with a twentieth-century
higher
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education system that tells everyone you either get a four year
degree or you get
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nothing at all today for millions of Americans that degree is
inaccessible
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for millions more their borrowing money to pay for those degrees
and they still
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can't find a job the first thing we have to do is more vocational
training we
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need more people trained to be welders and airplane mechanics and
machinists
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these are good paying jobs somehow we have stigmatize them as a
country and we
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have shortages of people to do that work in america a welder makes
more than a
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political science major and we need to train more young Americans
to do it
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the second thing we need is flexible higher education
programs
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this is especially important for people that have to work full-time
and raise a
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family for example a single mother raising two kids who works
full-time for
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$9 an hour as a home health aide the only way she's never gonna get
a raise
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to become a dental hygienist or paralegal but to do that she has to
go
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back to school and she can't because she has to work full-time and
raise a family
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I believe we need to have alternative accredited programs that
allow people to
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get the equivalent of a degree from alternative institutions that
allow them
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to package learning no matter how they acquired it let people learn
online for
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give them credit for what they've learned on their own and suddenly
that
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apparently that that reception this instead of making ten or twelve
dollars
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an hour can be a paralegal making $65,000 a year I'm not saying
we're
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gonna get rid of four-year colleges they're going to remain part of
our
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program after all how we gonna get college football without him I
am saying
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this we can't keep graduating people with degrees and only two jobs
that's
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why I believe that before you take out a student long school should
tell you how
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much people make when they graduate from that school with that
degree so you can
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decide if it's worth borrowing $50,000 to major in Greek philosophy
because
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after all the market for Greek philosophers have been very tight
for
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two thousand years the third thing we have to do is keep our people
safe and
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we face five major threats to our future
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north korea's run by a lunatic with nuclear weapon
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INS China's taking over the most important shipping lanes in the
world
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latimer Putin is challenging nato and threatens to split Europe
part in the
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middle east radical jihadist spread across dozens of countries in
multiple
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continents and they recruit Americans online to attack us here at
home and
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around is on the verge of acquiring a nuclear weapon and a
long-range rocket
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capable of striking us the most important obligation of the
federal
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government is to keep you safe and me safe and our families safe
and it's not
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doing that now because we are invigorating our defense spending
we
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aren't we have an army that just cut 40,000 spots a navy and an air
force
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smaller and older than it's been in decades we cannot continue to
do these
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things we must fix this we must improve our defenses so that we
remain the most
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powerful military force in the world and we must have a foreign
policy of clarity
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one that makes clear to our allies that we are with them not with
our
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adversaries one that makes clear to the world that this nation will
do whatever
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it takes to ensure that the only pro-american free enterprise
democracy
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in the Middle East the State of Israel prosperous and survives as a
Jewish
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state these are important things are all within our reach we can do
all three of
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these things and if we do the 21st century will be the greatest
era
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America has ever known now closed by saying this america doesn't
only
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anything but I haven't death to America I will never repay this is
not just the
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country I grew up in this is the nation that literally changed the
history of my
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family when my father was nine years old as a young boy in the
streets of havana
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his mother died and at nine years of age and had to go to work and
leave school
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he would never go back to school he would work for the next seventy
years of
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his life when he was a young man he had big dreams they became
impossible and so
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the very purpose of his life became to give us the chance to do all
the things
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in america he worked primarily as a banquet bartender on nights on
weekends
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and holidays he worked so that we could have the chance to do the
things he
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the journey my family was able to make in this country the journey
from behind
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that bar in the back of a room to this soap box here today that
journey is the
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essence of the american dream it is what makes our
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special it is what makes our nation different as Americans we are
all but a
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generation or two removed from someone who did that for us and what
we are
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called upon to do now is to ensure that the american dream doesn't
just survive
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but that it reaches more people and changes more alive than ever
before we
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are called not just to keep america's special and great but do keep
a greater
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if we can achieve these things and I believe that we can we will go
down in
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history as the next great American generation we will go down in
history as
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the authors of the new American Century and we will leave for our
children what
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our parents left for us the single greatest nation that man has
ever known
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and so I thank you for coming out here today and braving the rain
and maybe
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even some lightning later I appreciate you staying here with us
today to hear
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our message we intend to be here often to share it with you because
what's at
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stake here is not simply what political parties going to win or
what candidates
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going to govern what's at stake here is what kind of country will
we be in the
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21st century you and I were left by our parents and grandparents
the greatest
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nation in the history of the world it is our obligation to keep it
that way and
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there's no reason why we can't together we can build the new
American Century
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and the greatest era that our nation has ever known and that's why
I'm asking you
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to caucus for me on february first in the state we will begin the
process of
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selecting the next American president the good news is it will
signal the end
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of eight years of failure it will signal the end of the Obama
administration and
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and the question is what comes next for america and what comes next
if we're
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willing to do what must be done is the greatest era in our history
we can do
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this together that's why I'm asking you for your support on
February 1st I'm
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asking you to caucus for me thank you and God bless you I
appreciate it very