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GOP Address: Solving Economic the Gap; Embrace Free Enterprise

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GETTY P 110510 MarcoRubio?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1327719498041Joe Raedle/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida delivers this week’s Republican address just as his state’s Republican presidential primary is underway. Just after the four candidates for the nomination wrap up campaigning in the state and before Florida Republicans head to the polls, Rubio expressed excitement for the prospect of a new Republican nominee that can pull a victory over President Obama.

Sen. Rubio digs in to Obama right away in the Republican address, explaining why he believes the president didn’t use his recent State of the Union speech to talk about his success so far.

“It was an opportunity for the president to talk about his accomplishments over the last three years and to lay out his plans for the year ahead. And he missed on both counts,” Rubio says, adding, “You didn’t hear much talk about the success of his Administration — and that’s because there isn’t much.”
 
And Rubio doesn’t stop there.  He continues his criticism of President Obama, saying that while he may have inherited serious problems upon taking office, the country’s large national debt and high unemployment have all been made worse since Obama’s term began.

“So what are his plans now to make things better? What does he plan to do now, that he didn’t do before?” Rubio asks, again referencing Obama’s State of the Union address. “He plans to divide us against each other. To pit Americans against other Americans in the hopes of generating enough votes to get re-elected.”

“He tells Americans worried about their jobs that the way to help them is to raise their bosses’ taxes.  He tells those who are hurting that they only way they can be better off, is for others to be worse off.  He tells all of us the only way for some of us to climb up the economic ladders for others to be pulled down,” Sen. Rubio says.

Rubio claims the president’s “divisive rhetoric” is asking Americans to “abandon our economic heritage,” which says “those who have made it fairly, can stay here. And those who are trying to make will have a real chance to join them.”

The way to resolve the growing gap between the country’s poor and wealthy is to “embrace American Free Enterprise system,” the Florida senator says, noting his father’s success as a bartender at Miami and Las Vegas hotels.

“…I know that this idea of a nation where anyone from anywhere can accomplish anything, it’s not just something I read about in history books. I’ve seen it in my own life. And there’s no reason why we cannot continue it here, if only we do the right things,” he says.

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