Sunday, March 28, 2010

What Rubio should have said

Marco Rubio demolished Charlie Crist in their FOX debate this week. That needs no explanation. However, Rubio did not do as well as he could have.

Conservatives are always looking for the next 'Reagan.' What was Reagan? As in his famous "Time for Choosing" speech, and countless other times, he connected the dots of liberty and economic freedom, and contrasted them to statism and tyranny in a powerful way.

When Crist defended his stimulus support, Rubio answered by deriding the results and asking who could be "trusted" to fight Obama.

What Rubio should have said was this:
"The purpose of government is not to create jobs through fiscal policy. Although the Fed is charged with maximizing employment through monetary policy, it is not feasible nor practical for the federal government to create jobs through spending money. The government simply can't buy 100% employment. There was a regime that tried that - it was called the Soviet Union, and it didn't work, it will never work, and it's not what we're going to do in America."

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