Rubio at Reagan Library on the role of government

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Marco Rubio Hits it Out of the Park 

Senator Rubio at The Reagan Library

At
none other than the Reagan Library, Florida Republican Sen.
Marco Rubio wowed conservatives. He delivered a one-two punch of a
speech which not only admirably paid tribute to Ronald Reagan, in this
100th anniversary of his birth, but laid out a path of fiscal courage
for the country.

 

Rubio,
of course, was only elected to the Senate last year and it is
unfortunate that as yet he has not offered himself as a candidate for
the 2012 election, frankly.

 

Nonetheless,
the freshman senator gave a stinging - and accurate indictment - of
how the country has gotten into its current fiscal mess, now presided
over by a Democratic White House.

 

Said
Rubio: "Program after program was crafted without any thought as to
how they will be funded in future years or the impact it would have on
future Americans. They were done with the best of intentions, but
because it weakened our people and didn't take account the simple math
of not being able to spend more money than you have, it was destined to
fail and brought us to the point at which we are at today."

 

He continued: "It is a startling place to be, because the 20th century 

was
not a time of decline for America, it was the American century.
Americans in the 20th century built here - we built here - the richest,
most prosperous nation in the history of the world. And yet today we
have built for ourselves a government that not even the richest and most
prosperous nation in the face of the Earth can fund or afford to pay
for. An extraordinary tragic accomplishment, if you can call it that."

 

Rubio
rightly called for re-crafting the role of government by embracing a
crucial first principle: "The free enterprise system does not create
poverty. The free enterprise system does not leave people behind. People
are poor and people are left behind because they do not have access to
the free enterprise system because something in their lives or in
their community has denied them access to the free enterprise system."

 

Rubio
should be considered for a place on the 2012 Republican nomination for
his courage, properly on exhibit at the Reagan Library most recently -
but hopefully appearing soon in venues across the country.

 

Read the full text of Rubio's speech at the Reagan Library. 

He also caught Nancy Reagan - who is rumored to have invited Tea Party favorite Rubio to speak - as she fell when they were making their entrance.