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Senator Rubio: The President’s Policies are Scaring Job Creators
“The President doesn’t understand how jobs are created or he doesn’t want to accept how jobs are created.”
Senator Rubio: The President’s Policies are Scaring Job Creators
The Laura Ingraham Show
June 15, 2011 / Laura Ingraham
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNMoUF1d_d8
Laura Ingraham: “What did you make of the President’s outreach yesterday in Puerto Rico, and of course, the White House is selling this as the President doing everything he can to encourage job creation in the United States and highlight the good examples. It’s always green jobs because apparently those are the only jobs that can be created in the United States that are worth anything, according to them. But what was your take on it?”
Senator Rubio: “I was in Puerto Rico a month ago myself, and I can tell you what I found out, and that is they care about the same things everybody here cares about. And that is jobs and economic growth. The problem with the President is he doesn’t understand how jobs are created or he doesn’t want to accept how jobs are created. They’re not created by the President, they’re not created by United States Senators. Jobs are created by Americans—hardworking, everyday people that go out and start a business or expand an existing business. That’s how jobs are created. Government’s job is to create an environment where it’s easier to do that. And his policies are not making it easier to do that, and that’s why jobs aren’t being created. Because his tax policy is threatening class warfare and tax increases, the regulatory environment, the stuff going on with the labor issues and the unions, ObamaCare—the litany of things that are happening since he’s taken over as President is scaring job creators, and they’re deciding now’s not the time to create jobs. And he doesn’t understand it, and that’s why his presidency has made things worse here in America.”
Sen. Rubio: The President Should Not Be Implementing Failed Economic Policies
Laura Ingraham: “Do you think he is not understanding it, or do you think he understands it quite well, and this just isn’t the path that he wants to take America down? I mean, he wants to take America down a different path that’s maybe a little bit more based on a European model, so which is it?”
Senator Rubio: “I will tell you this: there’s no way you can look at the policies that this President has pursued and not reach the conclusion that at least people in his administration do not buy into the American free enterprise system, that they feel that somehow maybe the way the other countries have done it is better. I don’t think history is on their side. As I just told a group a moment ago, give me an example of a country that embraced big government and found prosperity. Because there isn’t any, not in history, and not in modern times. The truth is that we should not be implementing the policies of countries that people come here to get away from. And if you look at the direction and expansion of government’s role in our economy, that this administration is pursuing, I think that’s the direction they’re taking us, pretty clearly.”
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