Senate candidate Rubio addresses business leaders at Boca Chamber

August 20, 2010   ·   1 Comments

Photos by Audra Hodges

BOCA RATON — Innovation and entrepreneurship have made our country the “single greatest society in all of human history” and we must fight to retain that status, Marco Rubio told business leaders gathered at the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce (GBRCC) Aug. 12

“I’ll tell you what it comes down to,” said Rubio. “We will either remain an exceptional country or we’re going to become just like everyone else. That’s the stake of this election.”

In front of some 25 local business leaders, Rubio also spoke of the need to enhance the economy by creating competition between businesses, empowering consumers to have a choice of healthcare options, and strengthening small business.

“Maybe you’ll agree – and maybe you won’t – but big government doesn’t really hurt the people who have already made it,” he said. “If you’re the guy who is trying to make it, big government kills you. I don’t ever want us to be a country where an employee cannot become an employer, where a worker cannot become an owner.”

“To have the former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and candidate for U.S. Senate speak to a group of Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce members on the critical issues facing our country is testament to the caliber of intellectual capital in the Boca Raton business community,” said GBRCC President & CEO Troy M. McLellan, CCE.

“Marco Rubio’s commitment to the concept of free enterprise is the way to job creation and economic recovery and we are grateful he made the GBRCC a priority on his campaign route.”

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