Rick Scott: “I actually was born in the great State of Illinois and lived in public housing there. I grew up in a family that could…”

“I actually was born in the great State of Illinois and lived in public housing there. I grew up in a family that could have benefited from things like Medicaid and the Food Stamp Program. We didn't have those. Those are great programs, and that is not socialism. Socialism is when we take from one group and we just give to another with no real basis for it. We want safety nets, but socialism is a failed ideology. Nothing in this resolution suggests that Medicare is socialism. Nothing says Social Security is socialism, because it is not. But it is a failed ideology and the antithesis of the American dream. We have all been blessed. We grew up in a country that believes in capitalism. I invite any of my colleagues that believe socialism is good to visit Cuba or Venezuela. I don't see many people flocking there. I see them flocking out of there to my great State and other States. If you want to come and talk about socialism, come to my State, especially in the city of Miami, where so many people had to flee because they had no country. Socialism is a proven path to tyranny, starvation, as my colleague brought up--so many things in the resolution--death. I am always going to fight for capitalism. We weren't able to get this passed. I don't think it suggests that great programs like Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, Medicaid-- these things are not socialism.”