Busy day today, so I didn't get a lot of time to scour the news. But I did find an article about Florida Senator, Marco Rubio, in the Fiscal Times on-line by David Adams of Reuters.
I really don't know very much about Rubio, but do understand that he's held in high regard by the Republican party, especially Romney and Gingrich, even having his name mentioned as a possible Vice Presidential candidate next November.
The gist of the article focused on what might be construed to be the senator's personal financial problems because "Despite his reputation as a watchdog over federal spending, Rubio, 40, has had significant financial problems that could keep him from passing any vetting process as a potential vice presidential choice, Republican and Democratic strategists say."
And, without going into great detail, I read that he's battling with an underwater mortgage, among other things like college loans, that have forced him into significant additional debt and even suspected overuse of his party credit card for personal use, which he later reimbursed the card company for about $16,000.
Since Rubio campaigned on reining in government spending, Brannon Jordan, of the Florida Democratic Party said, "His own personal spending is out control. He says one thing but is doing another."
Now, from my point of view I don't think Rubio's financial woes are a political problem at all. In fact, I think they're an asset. Because here we have a guy in the middle of government himself who's getting killed financially like 40% of his state's population because Democrats like Chris Dodd and the president himself worked together and started the real estate lending debacle. So, with horrendous lending mistakes like Project Acorn, these two guys and others like them helped spark a fiscal crisis that's still hamstringing nations across the globe.
So, if I was Marco Rubio, I think I'd welcome the chance to go head to head with this Democrat mudslinger and all those others who are concerned about his debt. Because that would be the perfect platform to highlight how and why it exists, and that he surely now knows better than most precisely how financially misguided the whole Democrat party is. And it's due to them, and like thinkers, that most of the world's now broke, including members of Congress.
That's it for today folks.
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