Marco Rubio - U.S. Senate - 2010

Miami, FL – U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio issued the following statement regarding today’s news that Florida’s unemployment rate has reached 11.9 percent, the highest level in state history:

“At the one year mark, it’s clear that President Obama’s and Governor Crist’s stimulus has failed the people of Florida. What was billed by them and other proponents as a job-creating panacea has instead served to grow government and increase our debt. For the record, the only backs I care about in this race are the backs of our children, upon which big government proponents continue piling trillions of dollars of debt.

“Today’s jobs report is a warning sign to Washington. If President Obama and his allies finalize their push for costly taxes, spending and regulation initiatives like the health care reform bill, they will put our economy in even further short and long term danger. As President Obama and Washington Democrats prepare to ram through their government takeover of health care, they do so at their peril. It’s alarming my opponent doesn’t believe this plan should be scrapped.

“While my opponent is focused on trivial and fabricated matters, I remain focused on my campaign to go to Washington, stand up to President Obama’s job-killing agenda and offer an alternative that encourages job creation by providing entrepreneurs with the incentives to invest and assurances their risk-taking will not be penalized. The first needed step towards creating jobs and lasting economic growth is for Washington policymakers to cease their assault on the free market, beginning with a scrapping of the current health care proposal on the table.”