Marco Addresses The Florida VFW

nnat throughout our country as a nation which meant is blessing but the one we consistently have is no shortage of brave men and willing

to serve our nation anti even to this day your service and those of those that came before you and those that are serving now have

made America what it is today single greatest site in all of human in a second on out of the dress Abraham Lincoln called upon our nation to

DC today as polarizes it is ever been but if there is one issue that I believe unites both parties and all American it's

the obligation that we have to the men and women who have served our and continue to do so to this day and to the but this commitment has to be backed up by real action sure

in the department of veteran affairs appropriately fun fully modernize seamlessly transitioning service members as they please leave

active duty processing claims quickly and affect ensuring that all of our veterans are where and receive the benefits that a promise to them and

sharing that the VA remains a depart with a cabinet level secretaries I really have hoped parties can unite the two parties can unite behind these

ideas and these principles to ensure that Lincoln's words today I mean as much as they did nearly a hundred two years ago and I would add that

one of the things that we have to ensure that no new pro and no new ID French or impede the ability of this financially live up to the obligations it is made to the men were who

have served us so well your sacrifices secured an exceptionally great American throughout for my generation for generations and

the only way to truly fully honor it's not just by making sure the government programs work but to ensure that America remains except for

the next generation that is the ultra if we do not do that we are not honoring your service that you've done to our country and right now there are two major

things facing America which threaten to rob us of our except the first is economic in we basically have a government that spends more money than it takes it's

resulted in a thirteen trillion dollar that grows five billion dollars a day everyone understands what happens to any entity that spends more money than it takes in over an extended period of time it

goes back Ronald Reagan once said that America had a rendezvous with death but if you saw the numbers we have today he would probably say we also now have a rendezvous with bank I

cannot must be a that's why we have to get rid of the gimmicks in the accounting games ago on Washington DC with the way that the budgets are put to get they

have allowed the federal government under both parties quite well the federal right underneath our no way to know noticed until we

must change the process about you must deal with the entitlement programs that threaten to bankrupt them the second thing that threatens America's exceptional I

now that seems to be increasingly absent in the in fact it appears a Washington DC wants to abdicate America's position and instead replaced with

the United Nations and other international by who have their place what will never be able to replace what American power in American leadership once

didn't help still do in the the truth is that the risks we face today are as great as any we have ever come and for us to truly be prepared to leave our children exceptional Sasai or

require us to do anything and everything we can to ensure that America remains the strongest nation on earth because the

world is a safer place when America is the strongest I say this to you at a time and I think there's still a debate without going on about whether Americans in the twenty first century are made of the same old the

American the nineteenth and twentieth America's counted on leadership in every generation to rise and face the great challenges of our time and