Friday, January 6, 2012

Rubio in letter to Obama: You are turning America into a 'deadbeat nation' - HUMAN EVENTS

Rubio in letter to Obama: You are turning America into a 'deadbeat nation' - HUMAN EVENTS

Rubio in letter to Obama: You are turning America into a 'deadbeat nation'

by Jason Mattera
01/06/2012

In a scathing letter sent to Barack Obama this morning, Senator Marco Rubio said that under the President’s first term in office, “more and more people have come to believe that America is becoming a deadbeat nation.”

Rubio went on to pledge that he would challenge any further increase in the debt ceiling, arguing that “we [Congress] need to make it routine to actually spend no more than we take in.” In the letter obtained by HUMAN EVENTS, the Florida Senator said that President Obama’s upcoming request to increase the debt ceiling by a whopping $1.2 trillion will cause the nation’s public debt to surpass the $16 trillion mark.

“I will oppose your request to continue borrowing and spending recklessly.”

President Obama is expected to request the new borrowing power from Congress once the Senate and House return from their holiday recess.

If the President led the charge to reduce the country’s unsustainable debt in mid 2011 rather than punt the enterprise to a “Super Committee,” asserted Rubio, we’d already be on a pathway toward economic growth and prosperity. "Unfortunately, the first three years of your presidency have been a profile in leadership failure."

The letter concludes: “America deserves leaders who will stand front and center, level with the American people about our challenges and offer real solutions to solve them. Instead of simply asking for another debt ceiling increase, I urge you to come forward with a real plan to tackle our debt in 2012.”

This is the latest salvo in the debt ceiling debate in Washington.

The Florida Republican’s warning letter to Obama can be read in its entirety below.
1.6.12 - Obama Debt Ceiling Letter - FINAL


More from Sen. Marco Rubio: A recent speech from the Senate floor on how big government intrudes on the economy and saps individual initiative, and what needs to be done.


Mr. Mattera is the editor-at-large of HUMAN EVENTS and the author of the New YorkTimes bestseller Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation (Simon & Schuster). He also hosts The Jason Mattera Show on News Talk Radio 77WABC. Previously, he was the Spokesman for Young America's Foundation and a TV correspondent for Michelle Malkin. Follow Jason on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.


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  • justme
    YAHOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Someone with guts to call this terrorist out. Yahooo!! Congrats to Marco!
  • fahq2
    Like to give a nod that the middle class owns upwards of 14 trillion dollars in wealth in this country through houses, cars, 401ks IRAs, 403B's etc. This article made me think of the spending and where the money is going to come from eventually, say in the second term. Me & you. Let's not forget TOTUS's grandfather was a marxist who tapped "frank" Marshal Davis to be his mentor. And Alisky who became is idol.

    Chapter II, Rules for Radicals:
    "Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America’s white middle class. That is where the power is. … Our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and the way of life of the middle class. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized and corrupt. They are right; but we must begin from where we are if we are to build power for change, and the power and the people are in the middle class majority."
  • Keith Lewis Simmons
    Right, because all Conservatives live in the fantasy world of their own mind, where balance sheets disappear when a guy who hates gays writes them.
  • justme
    WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT BAFFOON.
  • gobnait
    You're part of the problem. Here is a politician who is facing cold, hard truths about the direction in which Obama is taking this country and all you can do is mock him? Your dewy-eyed naivety is adorable but abjectly misguided. Get a clue before it's too late for us all.
  • FourleafTayback
    Believe it or not....gays are not an issue for the GOP except when they want the benefits that come from marriage. No one cares what the fudgepackers do behind closed doors. Why don't we just let men marry children, or multiple wives, or goats or whatever else you liberals want to have sex with? And no, I am not religious.
  • Pete Wagner
    Rubio is sounding just like Rick Perry. They should team up.
  • redinabluestateofidiots
    I hope Marc Rubio can get the rest of the Republicans to stand with him to stop the Obliteration of America by King Obama.
  • winslow
    RUN MARCO RUN! PLEASE!!!!!
  • JohnRalph
    Marco Rubio is a true American.


    Mein Führer Obama, is half white American hillbilly gutter trash and half black African Muslim Jihadist.

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