"YOU BETRAYED THE TEA PARTY - YOU SUPPORTED AMNESTY!"
Posted on 09/26/2015 8:55:26 AM PDT by BobL
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) made an unusual case for sugar subsidies at a recent event. He argued that ending price supports for the United States’ sugar industry, thereby ending a market distorting policy, will put our national security in jeopardy due to the availability of cheaper sugar from other countries that grow the crop.
“[O]ther countries will capture the market share, our agricultural capacity will be developed into real estate, you know, housing and so forth,” said Rubio, per the National Review, “and then we lose the capacity to produce our own food, at which point we’re at the mercy of a foreign country for food security.”
Of course, Rubio’s concern may have to do with the fact that Florida is one of the top producers of sugar in the United States, and he has received generous support from industry heavyweights. “Florida produces 2 million tons of sugar cane annually, constituting half of the nation’s domestic supply of sugar cane,” the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting notes. “The industry is situated in the Everglades Agricultural Area, a 700,000-acre swath of fertile land south of Lake Okeechobee including parts of Glades, Hendry, Martin and Palm Beach counties.”
Sugar subsidies may help this favored industry, but they are not good for businesses and consumers. In October 2013, the Wall Street Journal noted that the United States’ sugar policy, which artificially props up the industry, has caused some candy makers to move at least some of their operations overseas, where they can gain access to cheaper sugar and reduce the cost of overhead.
http://www.freedomworks.org/content/sugar-subsidies-hurt-consumers-and-cost-united-states-jobs
“So the Washington POS was able to dig into someones background and find a discrepancy, not a lie, about a Republican candidate but in almost 10 years of the most corrupt despotic rule of a lifetime achievement award winner from the Institute of Affirmative Action they could fine bupkis”
When it is used to change the ENTIRE MEANING of a story IT IS A LIE, get over it.
As far as Obama is concerned, it wasn’t the media’s job - it was MCCAIN’S JOB to shine some light on him. You remember McCain - that was the man WE TRUSTED to tell the truth about Obama. Perhaps we should be a bit more careful not to nominate a person unwilling to go on the attack against an opponent next time...since the media is not about to do that for us.
Yep. WaPo fact-checking Rubio too.
Good.
"YOU BETRAYED THE TEA PARTY - YOU SUPPORTED AMNESTY!"
Classic CRONY CAPITALISM...but if you depend on the money from others, then they do own you.
Also, I’m not sure if I’d put sugar up there with Titanium, for example, as something vital to our national defense...but again, when people fund your campaigns, you say what they expect you to say.
Help me Grampa, help me!
Huh?
“Yep. WaPo fact-checking Rubio too. Good.”
Not really, in this case. He had just been elected to the Senate and was considered a potential conservative superstar. Playing a central role in the Amnesty push was not being given much thought, and certainly running for President in 2016 was way off the radar. So as far as the media was concerned, this was a good time to knock him down a few rungs.
Thankfully they kept the article around, as they sure as hell will not run it again in the Primary season - but they WILL RUN IT when Rubio is facing Biden next November.
He is picking up signals from Havana.
That was intended to reply to reply number 6 about Rubio’s big ears.
Sorry, I need more coffee.
You know, come to think of it, why would the Washington Post be so interested in Rubio’s past when he has 5 years left in his term in the Senate? Why run it now?
Perhaps it was Rubio’s people trying to get the lie ‘behind them’ prior to his run for president, when the story would have certainly come out? That would explain why his staff was so quick to confirm the lie, rather than trying to ‘explain it away’.
What’s Hillary’s ‘compelling story’ How come these effing liberal papers don’t push that crap for liberals?
No, I'm saying you're a moron for waving the Post hit piece in our faces. What purity test are you using for your candidate?
“No, I’m saying you’re a moron for waving the Post hit piece in our faces. What purity test are you using for your candidate?”
Get over it, it’s not a “hit piece”. A hit piece is when the media says that Trump was boo’d for calling Rubio a clown (which he is), when virtually everyone that watched it realized they were boo’ing Rubio and likewise would have boo’d if Trump had mentioned Obama’s name - and those boo’s too would have been for Obama.
As to this article, it’s not a hit piece because RUBIO LIED THROUGH HIS TEETH to get elected, and I will not EVER let people forget it. In fact, I may feel it necessary to remind people of it on a regular basis, if I keep getting attacked like this.
15. I tried to join the Marine Corps when a recruiter came to the University of Arkansas. But the Corps rejected me.
Personally, I think he's one of our better contenders, although I don't know enough about everyone else to make a choice yet.
I DO think that Donald Trump would be a disastrous candidate: his heart may be in the right place (although I'm not convinced that's not "showmanship") but his temperament is not suitable to be P.O.T.U.S. Neither is Obama's, but why jump from the frying pan into the fire?!
My opinion. I won't attack YOU if you don't attack ME! FReegards
“I won’t attack YOU if you don’t attack ME!”
Yea, I prefer debate without personal attacks too. I’m just not sure where I attacked you (unless your name is Marco Rubio).
As it is, in all seriousness, how do you resolve Rubio’s Amnesty sellout in supporting him. Most of us cannot figure out a way to support a candidate that demands Amnesty and hence the end of the Republican Party as a national party.
Maybe we’re wrong, be we can’t see a way to give Rubio a pass on that issue, or any reason to trust him on that issue.
Sincerely, BobL (aka, moron)
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