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Rubio: “I believe that we should not vote nor pass a continuing resolution unless that continuing resolution defunds ObamaCare. … We should refuse to raise the debt limit by one single cent unless we pass and the president agrees to sign a budget that shows how we are going to begin to get to balance it [within] ten years.”
Excerpts from the Concerned Veterans for America y The Weekly Standard’s “Defend & Reform” Breakfast
Senator Marco Rubio
Washington, D.C.
July 11, 2013
http://youtu.be/TjQQf1Vi4H8
Senator Marco Rubio: “In September of this year, we’re going to start debating our budget. Because of the deep philosophical divide between Republicans and Democrats – most Democrats, not all – because of that deep philosophical divide, we can’t pass a budget. And so we are funding government on these short-term budgets called Continuing Resolutions. But this debate is going to take place at the same time as the implosion of ObamaCare is happening before our very eyes.
“Let me tell you, ObamaCare is not just a bad idea, it is unimplementable. And I’ll tell you when it is going to come to a head, and that is here in the next couple of weeks and months when members of Congress realize that under ObamaCare they too will lose their health insurance. They too will be thrown into an exchange, a federal exchange. And hey, if that is the law, we need to live under that. The problem is that exchanges don’t exist. They haven’t been set up yet. We’ve already seen the president had to delay a significant portion of the health care law – the employer mandate, although individuals are still mandated. We heard last Friday that they are going to have no way to verify the income levels of people that are receiving subsidies. You basically get to show up and say, ‘This is how much I make.’ And they’re going to believe you, and you’ll get a subsidy based on that attestation. I don’t think that’s going to work very well.
“It is unimplementable. And the impact it is going to have on our economy is going to be disastrous, but it is already having an impact right now. Right now, as we speak, it is holding back economic growth. Right now, as we speak, there are people that are deciding not to open a new business or not to grow an existing business because they cannot calculate and have no idea how they are going to live under these mandates that are being created under ObamaCare.
“So, as we get to this continuing resolution debate, I believe that we should not vote nor pass a continuing resolution unless that continuing resolution defunds ObamaCare. You want to delay implementation? Don’t fund it.
“And if we have a six month continuing resolution, we should defund the implementation of ObamaCare by those six months. But we should not pass a continuing resolution, and I will not vote for a continuing resolution unless it defunds ObamaCare for the period of time of the continuing resolution. I’d like to see it permanently repealed, but at a minimum, we should agree to do that.
“Soon after we are done with the short term budget will come another recurring issue, and that’s the debt limit or debt ceiling. Our national debt is now about $17 trillion and it is growing. And here is the most startling part about it: there is no plan in place to stop it from growing in the near future. It’s $17 trillion, it requires us to raise the debt limit here in a couple of months, and it will require us to do it again in the next 18 to 20 months. There is no plan in place, and quite frankly, there is no one seriously working on one.
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“The fact that there is this $17 trillion debt and no plan to fix it is discouraging growth right now. People are afraid to risk and invest their money in an economy that they think is headed for either disruptive changes in the government or massive tax increases to deal with the debt. You think the $17 trillion debt and no plan to get control of it is encouraging economic growth? How many chambers of commerce around America are bragging about ‘Come to America, invest here, we have a $17 trillion debt!’ Because it discourages growth. It discourages job creation. It is having an impact right now as we speak.
“And so, that’s why I believe that we should refuse to raise the debt limit by one single cent unless we pass and the president agrees to sign a budget that shows how we are going to begin to get to balance it [within] ten years.
“This is not an unreasonable request. They will say that it is, but it is not.”