All True statements involving Marco Rubio
"Our economy actually shrank during the last three months of 2012."
"A million people a year come into the U.S. legally. No other country even comes close to that figure."
"When Social Security first started, there was 16 workers for every retiree. Today there are three workers for every retiree and soon there will be only two for every retiree."
"Some of the men serving in the (Afghan) armed forces have never driven a vehicle before."
"Forty cents of every dollar being spent by the federal government is being borrowed from my children."
“We are picking up oil with shovels and paper and plastic bags.”
Charlie Crist "bizarrely vetoed" $9.7 million for a teaching hospital at the University of Florida "despite having previously argued the budget request had merit."
"By registration fewer than 20 percent of Florida voters are Independents."
"Since that famous day in February where the governor campaigned with Barack Obama on behalf of the stimulus program, 211,000 Floridians have lost their jobs."
"Just this week we received the news that for the first time Social Security is now paying out more in benefits than it's taking in. That was something that was supposed to happen in 2016."
The Associated Press called Charlie Crist's attacks "over the top," "out of context," and "not true."
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