Marco Rubio at the Des Moines Register Soapbox

nndb you thanks for braving the rain I'm gonna cut it a little shorter than normal because they

say another band is coming through and I don't want anyone to get away but upright too late for that right listen I'm here to tell you why I'm running for president and

it's a very straightforward and I want this to remain a country where parents can do for their children what my parents did for me my

parents were born on the island of Cuba they came to the United States in nineteen fifty six they barely spoke the language at the time had

no money and very little educate and yet they were able to buy a home and raise a family they were able to retire with dignity and they were able to leave off for their children better off in the south what

I'm worried about is that today millions of Americans feel like they no longer can achieve the and the reason is because the world in the economy has changed and

our policies must change with we're not just facing an economic downturn we are facing an economic transformation it's

just like the industrial revolution except it's happening faster and it is deep and it is disrupt the jobs that one sustained our middle class have been replaced by machines or

the greatest nation on earth here's the good news there's no reason why we can't fix this America remains a great country the

to achieve that there are three things we have to do the first thing we have to do is we have to modernize our economic policy so

best new business is the best idea and we have tax policies and regulatory policies and a national debt that

are holding us back we're not fully utilizing our energy resource and we have to repeal replace a health care law we

have to repeal and we have to replace it with something that gives every American the opportunity to acquire the health insurance they won with

their own pre tax money for many company in America across state lines that will sell it to the if we do these things the American economy will create millions of

cannot continue stop with a twentieth century higher education system that tells everyone you either get a four year degree or

you get nothing at all today for millions of American that a degree is in excess of for millions more they're borrowing money to pay for those degrees and

they still can't find a job the first thing we have to do is more vocational training we need more people trained to be well there's an

airplane mechanic and my and my machine is these are good paying job somehow we have stigmatize them of the country and

we have shortages of people to do that work in America a welder makes more than a political science major and we need to train more young Americans to do the

second thing we need is flexible higher education program this is especially important for people that have to work full time and raise a family for

example a single mother raising two kids who works full time for nine dollars an hour is a home health aide the

only way she's ever going to get a raise us to become %HESITATION a dental hygienist or paralegal but to do that she has to go back to school and

she can because she has to work full time and raise a family I believe we need to have alternative accredited program that

allow people to get the equivalent of a degree from alternative institutions that allow them to package learning no

matter how they acquired let people learn online for free give them credit for what they've learned on their own and