Sen. Rubio: "Save the Whole House or It Will All Burn Down"

On the Senate Floor Sen. Rubio discusses the debt and engages in a debate with Sen. John Kerry.

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[samwonderfullmaid]

He truly puts the word Republican in a new light. Makes me want to go back to being a Republican. I hope he becomes president someday so maybe I can.

[CaptFitzbattleaxe]

Rubio 2020.  It's happening.

[tagen22]

I love Senator Rubio and men like him who are willing to fight for our nation. I couldn't imagine having to deal with congress. So thank you Senator. Keep up the good work. I hope to see you in the White House someday.

[nicefish10]

Rubio + STUD.....

The man speaks the truth and the media ignores all of the facts that he has laid out here about the Dems not submitting a budget for over 800 days.

[Benjefwil]

@jsgoodfella Also saying I watered down the entire discipline is hardly an argument. We were discussing whether cutting the budget was a good idea or not. I was addressing that specific argument. If you want to go into a more detailed argument about any part of economics I welcome the challenge, although from what you have shown so far I highly doubt you are in any position to hold an intelligent debate on economics beyond looking up concepts and taking them at face value.

[Benjefwil]

@jsgoodfella What you don't realize is that economics has no real laws since it is a social science and nothing in economics can be set up in falsifiable form and tested which is required to become a "law" in other sciences. Lol. Like I said you people should stop googling shit or repeating stuff you learned in econ 101. You are just making yourself sound more ignorant. Don't argue about economics if you don't actually know what you are talking about.

[Benjefwil]

@jsgoodfella Lol, you clearly do not understand economics yourself. Let's start with teh definition of a law: a general relation proved or assumed to hold between mathematical or logical expressions. I don't know how you can claim that Say's law is a law when not only has it never been proved but has been all but discredited. The law of diminishing returns is also a trend based off of empirical evidence and is not guaranteed to always hold true. It is not based off of mathematical proof.

[jsgoodfella]

@Benjefwil You have essentially watered down the entire discipline of economics to a very specific application of expansionary policy. Your ignorance is fully revealed by your statement that there are no "laws" in economics, which more or less implies that you have a cursory understanding of the subject. Look up Say's law, the law of opportunity cost, the law of diminishing returns, the rules governing the production possibilities frotier etc. and then say that there are no "laws."

[MrNYCman530]

@CaptFitzbattleaxe Perhaps even 2016

[WheresPoochie]

Rubio is obviously a very intelligent and passionate man but the romanticization of this senator clouds his heavy social conservatism. He voted for NDAA, co-sponsored SOPA (which is mysteriously pulled out of), and even supported giving tax subsidies to "G or PG" natured film-productions for his state (which is a subliminal attack on artistic freedom). Although I do agree with him that spending needs cuts, many of his "100 Innovative Ideas" sound rather costly.

Smart fellow, but let's wait...

[AV8R4HM]

Wow, great speech Sen Rubio!!!!

[Benjefwil]

@jsgoodfella I chose to use the word rule. So yes you made an argument, yes I addressed that argument and yes it is close to being a rule in economics. If you can suggest an alternative that is rational, or provide empirical evidence disproving this "rule", then I will gladly discuss that as that would be very interesting. However, if you are debating the rule status of not cutting a budget during a recession, you better have more than just, "there are other theories" to back it up.