Posted on 03/05/2013 3:58:20 PM PST by bestintxas
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush Tuesday described the growing economic chasm between rich and poor as "un-American" and called it the biggest "structural" problem facing the nation on Tuesday.
"Going forward, we have to deal with our longer structural problems. The biggest one, as far as I'm concerned, is that we're no longer socially mobile as a country," Bush said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program.
"You have people that are born poor and there's a higher and higher probability that they're going to stay poor. And you have people that are born rich and there's a greater probability that they'll stay rich.
"It's just so un-American," he added. "And yet none of the conversation and the debates are really about this. But upward mobility is the chance to solve a lot of problems. . ."
Bush, often mentioned as a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2016, said he worries that too many Americans "feel like life isn't fair to them, that they can't succeed."
Adding to the problem, he said, is the fact that the nation's education system no longer provides the tools to ensure that "every child has a chance to learn."
"If people don't have the skills to succeed, no matter how much they dream, if they don't have the skills to make those dreams come true it's not going to work," he said.
He added later that education reform must be made a top priority because there are still too many "pockets in this country of just illiteracy because we haven't had the same standards for them."
Bush, who was making the rounds at MSNBC promoting his new book, "Immigration Wars," was also asked about his apparent reversal on giving illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship.
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No more an idiot than Mitt. There IS a gap that’s growing-—caused by the dissolution of families by the left for the last 50 yrs. Single parent duped into thinking government dependency should be a way of life. Anti-Christian leftists pushing for no individual responsibility for ones’ actions comes in a close second.
Another good plank in a conservative party
would be a consumption tax instead of income tax.
This politics of class warfare needs to
go.
Plank one- freedom of speech
Two- second amendment
Three- MAJOR tax reform
Four- remove the government from economic manipulation
which destroys economic strength.
There is so much more a new conservative party could build on.
Face it, the GOP is dead to us and it’s dead to any thinking person who wants freedom and opportunity.
Heard ‘compassionate conservative’ and my first thought was how easy it is to be compassionate with other people’s money. It was one of the reasons I did not vote for GW in 2000.
Even Japan is trying to cure their ‘Comfortable poor’ problem.
Whywork.org
Ha. Just before this post and very related. Big, fat revenues in, little droppings of revenues out. It’s money magic from all kinds of constituents, you know.
Charter School Superintendent Makes Over $339K A Year
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2993820/posts
“compassionate conservatism crap”
Amen, from you lips to God’s ears.
What happened to the segment of the population that would challenge a corporation for market share? The small start ups that would cut into an entrenched business are still around, aren’t they?
And yet, once Jeb gets the nomination in 2016, we’ll be told that we HAVE to vote for him, because the Democrat pick would be too horrible a choice, and “a vote for a 3rd party is a vote for the Democrat!”.
You can make them go to school but you can’t force them to learn anything.
They are being told this every day by the geniuses who want to manage them.
And, the economy that could give them a path upward is being smothered in the crib.
An economy in which we make an effort to be energy independent would put millions to work, and among those milllions would be tens of thousands of small contractors and small businesses.
We send half a trillion a year out of the country to buy fuel, which puts someone else's people to work rather than our own, and pays into someone else's tax base rather than our own. That money spent here would turn this economy around so fast our heads would spin.
But we have a government that will do anything it can to avoid competing with their puppeteers at OPEC, and anything it can to avoid having a citizenry that doesn't need them and knows it doesn't need them.
Wasn’t for the communists Democrats there would be little or no poor.
Bushie-Marxist
Go Jeb 2000!
That was his year. After George W. and Mitt no way is this guy going to be nominated or elected.
Already you have Democrats saying that he disagrees with the book he just published, and you'll hear the "wishy-washy flip-flopper" theme right up to the election.
Plus, nowadays he's only slightly thinner than Chris Christie.
I have already crafted my justification to abandon the vote in 2014. I don’t want conservative fingerprints on the coming disaster.
"Going forward, we have to deal with our longer structural problems. The biggest one, as far as I'm concerned, is that we're no longer socially mobile as a country,"... "You have people that are born poor and there's a higher and higher probability that they're going to stay poor. And you have people that are born rich and there's a greater probability that they'll stay rich... "It's just so un-American," he added. "And yet none of the conversation and the debates are really about this. But upward mobility is the chance to solve a lot of problems. . ."
I agree. It is un-American to have such a large Government and the enormous taxation system (Fed Tax, State Tax, Property Tax, Local Tax, Sales Tax, Utility Tax, Fees here, and Fees there...) to feed this beast. Putting this burden on the backs of people are going to keep people down. Slaves to the Government, so to speak.
Adding to the problem, he said, is the fact that the nation's education system no longer provides the tools to ensure that "every child has a chance to learn."
I agree - our Government School system is poor. It seems to exist only to brainwash children to adopt an atheistic philosophy; to emasculate young boys; to promote promiscuity; to mock the principles on which this country was founded; and at the end of the day turn out automatons that will serve the State and not question it.
Now whether or not Mr. Bush meant all of this by his remarks, I don't know, but I took no issues with his excerpted comments.
I normally would defend any reasonably conservative republican, but it seems Jeb is thinking way too hard about things, he uses the word “structural” a lot, followed by a liberal sounding mistake.
I thought Jeb did a good job running Florida. I even posted that it’s possible I could support him under the right circumstance.
But it’s becoming clear that he is losing it. I wonder if it ever ocurred to him that the growing disparity between rich and poor might have something to do with the 12 million illegals he embraces.
Let's modify this statement for accuracy:
Mr. Jeeves Calls Gap Between Politically-Connected Finance Corporatists and Main Street Business Owners 'Un-American'
If Jeb dares to go down that road, he might find a lot of support. If he shuts up and does as he's told, instead, he'll be the next President.
Why doncha go back to Florida and work on that problem Jebby.
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