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March 6, 2014--Sen. Tim Scott
(R-SC) had
a
light
opening
to
his
remarks: "Because I believe in the future
of America, my Opportunity Agenda
focuses on the American people and not the federal
government. By
limiting the government, we empower the people. We don't need the
big
government and Obamacare choosing our doctors, do we? We don't
need
Obamacare forcing pizza places to tell us how many calories are on our
pizza. Do we really want to know? I'm not sure about you,
but I don't
even want to know how many calories are on my pizza. When I eat
my
Hagen Daz ice cream, I want to enjoy those 1,292 calories, and all 100
grams of fat in one sitting. And some of y'all don't want
Obamacare to
increase the taxes on the tanning beds. Now please note I said
some of
y'all. I don't really care about that tax. Just
joking. Just
joking. You've got to have some fun when you're at CPAC, right?"
The core of Scott's speech focused on two education proposals he has
been advocating recently: school choice and training and workforce
development. On school choice, Scott said, "They [parents] should
be free to choose home school, public school, charter schools,
parochial schools. It should be the parents' choice. When the parents
have a choice, the kids have a chance." On training he said, "We
should
have
a dual track: one for college and one for the skills
necessary to fill the four million vacancies we have today in
America." Scott introduced the Creating Hope and Opportunity for
Individuals and Communities through Education (CHOICE) Act and the
Supporting Knowledge and Investing in Lifelong Skills (SKILLS) Act in
January. |
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