Rubio on US economy: ‘The old ways no longer work’ : Elections

“n”>U.S. Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio called on Tuesday for an overhaul of the country’s higher education system, saying that universities were operating as a “cartel” and were not meeting the needs of students or the economy. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., shakes hands with Beverly Bruce, Romney’s New Hampshire finance chairwoman in 2012, as they talk with 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, and his wife Ann, at the end of the the Fourth of July parade, Saturday, July 4, 2015, in Wolfeboro, N.H. As president, Rubio said, “within my first 100 days, we will bust this cartel by establishing a new accreditation process that welcomes low-priced, innovative providers”.

Rubio is expected to use his speech in Chicago to defend his tax-reform plan, which has been criticized in conservative circles, and touch upon themes that some economists say sound unusual coming from a Republican presidential hopeful.

The Florida Republican has crafted an image as a younger alternative to Hillary Clinton – which he continued Tuesday with jabs at “Clinton’s time machine to yesterday” – but also implicitly contrasts himself with another frontrunner, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

Rubio also promoted a plan to modernize the national laboratory system in line with a proposal he introduced with Sen.

“The race for the future will never be won by going backward”.

The government-controlled newspaper describes Rubio, whose parents left Cuba before the revolution, as a “representative in the Senate of the Cuban-American terrorist mafia”, the Times reports. “These funds will allow us to continue the fight to restore our military and our nation’s role in the world, and given the recent news about the nation’s stagnant economy, advocate for conservative solutions to an inefficient tax code and education reform so all Americans have a chance to pursue their dreams”.

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Rubio has used previous campaign events to discuss the plight of working mothers, middle-class families and college students, wading into topics that Democrats often emphasize.

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