MARCO RUBIO IS PASSIONATE ABOUT THE AMERICAN DREAM
MARCO RUBIO IS PASSIONATE ABOUT THE AMERICAN DREAM
Repeal and replace ObamaCare! Be in charge of your own health insurance. We are the most innovative nation on the planet. No economy will create better jobs in the 21st century than ours. We are stuck with outdated monopoly higher education system.
A welder makes a lot more money than a greek philosopher. We don't need a common core curriculum. Get rid of the Department of Education, put that power back to state and local communities.
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the American Dream is not something we talked about in campaigns alone the
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American Dream is our identity as a nation and as a people there's a
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fundamental misunderstanding about what the American Dream is sometimes
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sometimes people think the American Dream is about how much money you make
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more about how many things you own on the day you die more about becoming
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famous or owning a big business this can be part of your American dream but
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that's not the American Dream at its core the American Dream at its core is
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about achieving happiness and by the way it's not just an american dream it
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actually is a dream that people have all over the world and it had it throughout
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history the reason why it's called the American dream it's because it happens
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so often to so many people here and it happens so rarely everywhere else this
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is our identity every country in the world has rich people every country in
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the world has big companies and big corporations every country in the world
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as powerful families but in america we have millions of people who were never
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be rich and will never be famous but who achieve happiness and a better life and
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that's what makes us different that's what separates us from the rest of the
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world and so it should trouble us
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when we hear from everyday people that they no longer think this is possible it
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reminded that what's at stake in these elections in our activism what's at
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stake here for america is not just what party wins are what candidate is elected
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what's at stake for our country is what kind of country are we going to be so
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why do so many people feel like the American Dream is slipping away with a
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lot of different reasons but we're not just living through an economic downturn
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we are living through a massive economic transformation I explained this to
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people all the time because if you don't understand that it's so difficult to
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solve the challenges that we face first of all we have an economy that's
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dramatically different from the one I grew up in its very different from the
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one we have five or ten years ago we have an economy for example were one of
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the largest retailers in the world is called Amazon they don't own stores one
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of the largest transportation companies is over they don't own cars and we don't
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just have a different economy is changing faster than ever think about it
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this way it took 75 years for the telephone to reach 200 million users it
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took candy crush that game 10 months to reach 200 million users so we don't just
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have a different economy we have an economy that is changing faster than
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ever before but the policies that we follow in this country are outdated and
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they're particularly troublesome when you follow the path of big government
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and more regulations and more taxation because that has never worked it is a
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disaster in the 21st century
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it's a disaster for starters we have to compete globally now there are dozens of
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other countries that learned from our example and so now they have limited
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government they have lower taxes they have less regulations and so every day
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we see American jobs and companies go abroad so we're no longer as globally
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competitive and so the first thing that we must do is become globally
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competitive again that's why we talk about tax reform that's right we talk
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about regulatory reform that's why we talk about energy policy that's why we
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talked about balancing the budget because all of these things the way they
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are they make us uncompetitive for starters do you realize that just last
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week the federal government instituted a million dollars of new regulations in
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one week
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you know what led the way a regulation that regulated the energy efficiency of
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ceiling fans which we all know as a real crisis in America get some water
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I get fired up I get water look
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ceiling fans 200 million dollars worth of regulations on our economy and so
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when people come to us and say about these things that we stand for limited
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government less taxes less regulations balancing our budget fully utilizing the
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energy resources of God has blessed this country with we're not talking about
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these things from an ideological perspective alone we need these things
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in order to be globally competitive it's why we need to repeal and replace
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Obamacare we we have a health care line America we have a health care law in
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America that raises the cost on people
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diminishes the quality of health care and encourages businesses not to hire
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anyone I guess other than that it's a pretty good idea right those it's
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hurting our competitiveness we need to repeal republicans and replace it and
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replace it with what people say I'll tell you with what
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replaced by putting people in charge of their own health insurance by allowing
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you to buy any insurance you want from any company in America that will sell it
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to you
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if we just do these things if we just do these things there's no economy in the
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world that can compete with us we're the most innovative people on the planet
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with the nation that comes up with all the great ideas where the most
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productive workers in the world
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no nation can compete with America and we do the things I just outlined to you
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the things we stand for the thing this movement is about no economy will create
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better jobs in the 21st century than ours
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but we can't stop there is the second problem all those better-paying jobs
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they all require more skills than they ever did and unfortunately today we are
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stuck with an outdated monopoly higher education system that is locking out
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millions of Americans from the opportunity at a better job why why did
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we stop teaching people in this country to be welders and plumbers and
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electricians and car an airplane mechanics and air conditioning repair
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Minh these are good paying jobs
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I promise you this a welder makes a lot more money than a Greek philosopher and
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we don't think people we need vocational education in America and give our people
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the skills they need for the best paying jobs and by the way we can have
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occasional education and it should be driven at the local and state level and
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the federal government can help on the edges but we don't need a common core
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curriculum to push that through
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I for curriculum reform at the local and state level you know why because if you
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give the federal government the power to set curriculum they will force the
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states to do it the way they want you to do it or you won't get money and you
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know what that means for parents if you don't like what's being taught in school
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you have to get on an airplane in flight of the Department of Education to lobby
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them instead of your school board member here's a better idea get rid of the
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department of education and let's put power back in the hands of state and
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local communities
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here's a second thing what if you're a single mother and you make $12 an hour
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and your receptionist at a law firm
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you know the only way you're going to get a raise is if you go back to school
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and become a paralegal or a dental hygienist or registered nurse or
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software designer but you can't you can't go back to school because to go
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back to school means leaving your job finding out someone to take care of your
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kids while you sit in a classroom for 24 years and it's too expensive and you
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know whose fault that is that is as we have a monopoly in higher education we
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have traditionally accredited universities that basically say only we
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can provide degrees and you must change your life to fit in with us we're not
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going to change to fit in with you we need to change that we need to allow
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people to get credit for what they already know
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if you served in the military and we thank you for your service
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here's a good rule of thumb here's a good rule of thumb if you are qualified
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to transport dangerous explosives on dirt roads in Afghanistan you are
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qualified to transport eggs on the interstate highway system of the united
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states give people credit for what they already know allow people to get credit
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for what they already know and then what you're missing let him learn it on their
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own online and free courses and flexible courses that allow you to go to school
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and on nightline and on weekends so people can acquire the degree or the
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certificate they need for a better paying job and instead of making $12 an
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hour they make $60,000 a year that will change their lives that will change our
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country now I'm not saying I'm not saying we don't need traditional
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four-year degrees of course we do we need for traditional schools otherwise
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how we gonna have college football although I think the welders would be
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pretty good and they had two teams but here's what I am saying we can't keep
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graduating people from college with degrees to do not lead to jobs but
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amount of student loans I know about that I owed over $100,000 myself in
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student loans for law school I paid them off of the proceeds of my book and
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American son now available in paperback if you're into
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you have thousands of young americans according to The Wall Street Journal
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this morning seven million Americans who have defaulted on student loans people
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deserve to know I believe that before you take out a loan you deserve to know
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how much people make when they graduate from that school without loan without
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degree and then you can decide whether it's smart to borrow $50,000 to be a
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Roman philosopher because here's the hard truth
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here's the hard truth the market for Roman philosophers has tightened
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significantly over the last two thousand years and our students deserve to know
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that
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the third thing we have to do is keep our people safe in fact it is the only
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and most important obligation of the federal government the federal
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government is involved in all kinds of things that wants to be involved in this
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is the one thing that must be involved in and we live in a world where today
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there are five major threats anyone of what should keep you up at night I don't
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use this word lightly but a lunatic in north korea possesses dozens of nuclear
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weapons and long-range missile which can hit the west coast of the United States
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the Chinese hack into our government computers one in particular they are
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serious matter they packed into a computer that's why this thing that
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hillary clinton to so bad and it's impacting her campaign and waste people
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have an anticipated for example last week she unveiled her college
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affordability plan you know what it basically involves you know it raised
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taxes on a bunch of people pour a bunch of money into the same outdated programs
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you know why it took her so long to release it claims from her server so it
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the Chinese hack into our computers they steal our government secrets they gather
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personal information on americans they steal secrets from our companies are
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modernizing their military and they're taking over the South China Sea the most
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important shipping lanes in the world and in Europe against her in moscow
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named Vladimir Putin is trying not just to divide europe destroy nato and he
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knows that he ever test nato and nato doesn't respond that's the end of nato
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in the Middle East radical jihadist have now spread across dozens of countries
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and 324 countenance it's not just Iraq and Syria Isis is now in Libya from
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where they conduct attacks in the Sinai and will soon springboard across the
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Mediterranean into Europe from where they recruit Americans on social media
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to conduct attacks here in the homeland radical jihadist to spread now into
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Afghanistan where there in a battle to take over what the Taliban once was
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there is a very dangerous development and then last but not least
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East our president has signed a deal with Iran that guarantees that a radical
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Shiite cleric will possessing nuclear weapon and a long-range rocket capable
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of reaching the united states these are dangerous developments
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these are not political disagreements these are dangerous developments yet
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this is the road we're headed on and that's why the first thing we must do
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under the next presidency is we must rebuild our military to ensure it
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remains the single most powerful military force in the world
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and we must have a foreign policy of moral clarity on what does that mean
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here's what it means and many in one way it means your allies believe youre their
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ally a means of you are america's friend we stand with you and if you are
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adversary we stand against you know that's common sense and you ask yourself
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well of course that's not what we have today we have a foreign policy today
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with the ayatollahs in Tehran receives more respect than the Prime Minister of
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Israel Israel the only pro-american free enterprise democracy in the Middle East
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if I am blessed with the opportunity to be president of the united states there
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will be no doubt in the minds of anyone on this planet that this nation will do
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whatever it takes to ensure that Israel survives and prosperous as a Jewish
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state
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so these are challenges and they're real and I understand the people's
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frustration look four times three times in the last four elections the American
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people voted for change we know how 2008 turned out so in 2010 they voted for
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change and then again in 2014 and nothing changes and so people are
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rightfully frustrated let's go further people are rightfully angry and upset
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and it's good to let that anger motivate us but we can't let that anger define us
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we are not an angry nation we are hopeful nation and we have every reason
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to be and I'll tell you why ask yourself this question we have problems we know
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the problems we face what country would you trade places with what country would
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you rather be there is no nation on earth I would trade places with this is
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still a great country the issue is it needs to be even greater when not
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fulfilling our potential and are potential is extraordinary and by the
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way we've always faced challenges and every era in our history we faced
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challenges we face challenges in our founding we face challenges during the
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Civil War we face challenges to the Great Depression and two world wars we
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face challenges to the civil rights era we face challenges during the vietnam
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arrow my goodness we survive disco music in the nineteen seventies we have always
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faced challenges
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do people start out there like the Bee Gees we've always faced challenges ours
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is not a story of a nation that never faced challenges are just a story of a
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nation and a people that have always faced challenge and have always done
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what it takes to overcome them and will do and we can do this again
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yes we face great challenges that we face even greater opportunity you see we
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live in the dawn of a new era a new economy that's going to be about
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innovation and competition and no one innovator competes better than we do by
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the way this nation's been at this very same position before the Industrial
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Revolution didn't just change america it changed the world and it was disruptive
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it took people out of harm's and moved him into factories it took industries
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had existed for hundreds of years and wipe them out and replace them with new
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ones you think the horse-drawn carriage people were happy about the invention of
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the car but we look back at the industrial revolution is a time of
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extraordinary progress because that generation of Americans chose to embrace
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the future not to run from it now it's our turn what we are called to do now is
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to embrace the future with all of its opportunities and with its challenges
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and as I SAT here today in as you and I spoke to you as you heard previously
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from my friend Ted Cruz as you heard from other people before they all
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outlined the challenges there is not a single challenge before this country
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that we cannot solve we are one election away from solving these challenges
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there is not a single challenge we face that we cannot so now we just have to go
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out and do it but to do so requires us to turn the page on yesterday to leave
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behind the ideas and the candidates trapped in the past an era that's coming
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on especially in the other party by the way a lot of people are complaining
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about all the so many people running for the Republican nomination it's true one
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out of five Republicans are running for president but we have 16 17 high quality
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people they can even come up with one
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turn the page should be but we've always been a nation that's been about the
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future
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we've always been the nation that asked what's next one about six months across
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this land depending on where you live the American people will begin the
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process of answering that question and the good news is that the beginning of
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this election cycle will signal the beginning of the end of eight years of
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terrible leadership by Barack Obama
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getting rid of Barack Obama alone won't be enough we still have to answer the
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question of what comes next and what comes next for our country can be the
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greatest era in our history of her willing to do what it takes
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ever willing to become globally competitive ever willing to
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revolutionize what it means to be in higher education if you're willing to
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remain the strongest nation on earth if we're willing to do these things I'll
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tell you right now the 20th cent to 21st century won't just be as good as the
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20th century it will be better
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your children and your grandchildren will be the freest and most prosper
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americans have ever lived and every single one of us has called that task
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and so i close with a personal story is I believe all of us are called this task
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I want to share with you I feel I am called to the task of serving this
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country whatever capacity I can you see america doesn't only thing america owes
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me nothing I have a death to America I will never repay
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when my father was nine years old he lived in Havana Cuba his mother died and
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so he had to stop going to school and start working to help support the family
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nine years old he never went back to school he would work for the next 17
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years of his life like all young people he had big dreams when he was younger
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things he wanted to do but they became impossible and so the new purpose of his
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life became to ensure that we would have the chance to do all the things he never
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could hear in this country my father was primarily a bartender he worked as a
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bartender banquet bartender at hotels and he worked on nights and on weekends
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and holidays and Sundays I'm sure he didn't feel like working he worked he
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was proud of the work he had but he wanted so much more for us he works at
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all the doors are closed for him would open for me and for my siblings he stood
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behind a portable bar in the back of a banquet hall all those years so one day
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I could be anything I wanted and the journey from behind the bar to the life
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I live today for me that's the essence of the American Dream and that's not
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just my story that's not just my story that's your story
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that's your story
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that's our story
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every single one of us in this country every single one of us is a generation
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or two removed from someone who made your future the purpose of their lives
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every single one of us is a generation removed from someone who made great
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sacrifices so that you can do all the things they never could
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that's the American Dream and I'm telling you despite our challenges
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believe this if we doing what needs to be done that dream won't just survive
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it'll reach more people don't change more alive than ever before and Lili
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will leave for our children when our parents left for us the single greatest
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nation that man has ever known
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thank you for having me god bless see thank you
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