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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Rubio to Obama: 'I Oppose Your Plans Because I Want to Protect My Neighbors'
Daniel Halper
February 12, 2013 6:10 PM
The following are excerpts of the Republican response to the State of the
Union Address, which will be delivered by Marco Rubio:
"This opportunity – to make it to the middle class or beyond no matter
where you start out in life – it isn’t bestowed on us from Washington. It
comes from a vibrant free economy where people can risk their own money to
open a business. And when they succeed, they hire more people, who in turn
invest or spend the money they make, helping others start a business and
create jobs. Presidents in both parties – from John F. Kennedy to Ronald
Reagan – have known that our free enterprise economy is the source of our
middle class prosperity. But President Obama? He believes it’s the cause
of our problems."
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"Mr. President, I still live in the same working class neighborhood I grew
up in. My neighbors aren’t millionaires. They’re retirees who depend on
Social Security and Medicare. They’re workers who have to get up early
tomorrow morning and go to work to pay the bills. They’re immigrants, who
came here because they were stuck in poverty in countries where the
government dominated the economy. The tax increases and the deficit
spending you propose will hurt middle class families. It will cost them
their raises. It will cost them their benefits. It may even cost some of
them their jobs. And it will hurt seniors because it does nothing to save
Medicare and Social Security. So Mr. President, I don’t oppose your plans
because I want to protect the rich. I oppose your plans because I want to
protect my neighbors."
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"Economic growth is the best way to help the middle class. Unfortunately,
our economy actually shrank during the last three months of 2012. But if we
can get the economy to grow at just 4 percent a year, it would create
millions of middle class jobs. And it could reduce our deficits by almost $4
trillion dollars over the next decade. Tax increases can’t do this.
Raising taxes won’t create private sector jobs. And there’s no realistic
tax increase that could lower our deficits by almost $4 trillion. That’s
why I hope the President will abandon his obsession with raising taxes and
instead work with us to achieve real growth in our economy."
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"The real cause of our debt is that our government has been spending 1
trillion dollars more than it takes in every year. That’s why we need a
balanced budget amendment. The biggest obstacles to balancing the budget
are programs where spending is already locked in. One of these programs,
Medicare, is especially important to me. It provided my father the care he
needed to battle cancer and ultimately die with dignity. And it pays for the
care my mother receives now. I would never support any changes to Medicare
that would hurt seniors like my mother. But anyone who is in favor of
leaving Medicare exactly the way it is right now, is in favor of bankrupting
it."
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"Despite our differences, I know that both Republicans and Democrats love
America. I pray we can come together to solve our problems, because the
choices before us could not be more important. If we can get our economy
healthy again, our children will be the most prosperous Americans ever. And
if we do not, we will forever be known as the generation responsible for
America’s decline." |
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